self-organised healthy sports Erasmus Project

Project Title

self-organised healthy sports

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

Teaching physical education at a bavarian Gymnasium we see more and more that teenagers move less and less and do no more sports if they are not engaged in a Club doing ball games or other competition sports. This lack of movement is getting worse with the increasing use of electronical media. So health problems appear in very young age already.

The main aim of our project was to improve the awareness of the young people for the need of movement and sports for their health, find some possibilities around the school . Our students should also learn what sports are good for health and organize those activities on their own. They should exchange their experiences with students in other European countries and see that there are different possibilities and climate in other regions of Europe.

That is why 5 schools from Lithuania, Spain, Finland, Cyprus and Germany worked together on this project. Those were common secundary schools in Lithuania, a very small school, and in Finnland, a school which our School already knows from a former Comenius-project. The Spanish school is a private catholic school until secondary classes. In Cyprus and Germany the schools were Gymnasien.

At all participating schools sports activities besides the P.E. lessons have been organized. and students learnt about the importance of movement for health. Depending on climate and circumstances the activities varied: in Finland they did more winter sport, Cypriots moved on the beach or did hiking. In Spain there were also hiking excursions in the mountains, in Bavaria we were biking, jogging, skating and cross country skiing in winter. In Lithuania healthy sports also for parents are obligatory in the curriculum, so they already move a lot. They even did kayaking there.
in winter the schools tried yoga, dancing and circle training. At least one information evening per school was organized for the whole school and the parents concerning healthiness and sports. In the German school this information evenening was public. Students and teachers documented all and exchanged the experiences on our platform on Yammer.
For the meetings with the students mainly sporty activities were planned and done. Finnland offered sauna, dancing and a wintersport day for all guests and the whole school. In Lithuania all students and teachers made an exciting excursion in tandem kajaks. In stead of the tents everyone spent the night in the gym, because of the rain. There was also one sports day with beach-volleyball, dart, basketball and football. In Germany we had ball games and a night in a house on top of a mountain in the Alps. In Spain everyone did a part of the famous Jacobs-path and we also had a hiking tour in the mountains after spending the night in a jouth hostel at the bottom.

The students and the teachers who went to the Meetings have not only seen the country and the people there, they also saw different possibilities and difficulties in another country and a different climate above all. All have taken part in a new and different sport activity that they did not do before. Students and teachers exchanged their experiences. At every school participating in the project was a rich experience, above all in Cyprus, Spain and Lithuania where the schools are very small and where really the whole school family was involved. The spanish school even prepared a whole “European week” due to our Erasmus- Project during the Meeting at their school.
At the bavarian School there was a so called “P-Seminar” concerning our theme. The participating students worked our different freetime sport activities and they tried them out, documented the results and informed all students about the pathes for biking for example.

In addition to the common English book about the project every participating school has printed a project book in their own language so that the experiences and the results of the project can be more effective.

All participating schools deciced to continue to offer and do freetime sports also in the future, and not only during the P.E. lessons.
All school plan an information board so that those proposals can be offered to all students.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 110445 Eur

Project Coordinator

Luitpold-Gymnasium Wasserburg am Inn & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Hatsalan klassillinen koulu
• Vergina Gymnasium
• Ntra. Sra. de la Providencia
• Silales r. Pajuralio pagrindine mokykla