WIN WIN Erasmus Project

Project Title

WIN WIN

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

The main goal of this project is to improve people’s health – mainly on a local level, but also regionally, nationally and ultimately in Europe. More and more people are experiencing a new set of challenges concerning health issues that seem to go hand in hand with lifestyle changes; we are less active and have a higher rate of obesity. We know why this happens and what should be done to tackle it – yet we still struggle to get more people to become more active and to do so over a longer period of time. How can we make a difference?

We have decided to call our project «Win-Win» because there are so many situations in which winning will play a key role in our planned activities. Our main goal is that of improving people’s health, but there will be many subsidiary goals. First, we would like to make a difference on a local scale. We plan to improve cooperation and levels of activity in our local community and we would like the upper-secondary school and the subject of sports and physical education to play a much greater role within this area. To achieve better personal health is a common social task in which voluntary and public organisations bear the brunt of the work. By linking the school and the subject of sports and physical education closely with the activities, an immediate and eventually long-term effect will be achieved. When the youth see, learn and experience their own and others’ efforts, further and continued effort will be encouraged. That is win-win. By integrating these social tasks into schoolwork, the pupils’ school day and subjects will become more sought after and comprehensible. Understanding one’s learning is motivational and encourages further learning both for the individual and for others. That is win-win. A more motivated and inspiring school is more attractive, having the knock-on effect of inspiring even more pupils to apply to the school, thereby creating more choice in activities for the subject of sports and physical education. All schools aspire to this. This, in turn, can ensure applications to further education, which is important in increasing the awareness of public health issues. Yet another win-win.

The project consists of three partner countries: Norway, Iceland and Denmark. Each of these countries will select an upper-secondary school that specializes in the subject of sports and physical education, as well as a local partner. There will be two sports clubs and one council from each country. We will thus learn from each other’s cooperation. Everyone has his or her own particular talent, yet also the ability to improve within some area. Everybody is interested in cooperating more closely and becoming more active – can we help and learn from each other in this work? Norway is good at outdoor activities but has the potential for improved cooperation within the fields of sports clubs and football. Pupils need training, sports clubs need better equipment/conditions. How can we solve this in the best way? By creating a win-win situation? Iceland is good at cooperation between schools and sports clubs – but they are not so good at developing their potential within outdoor activities. How can we solve this in the best way? What can be learned from Norway and Denmark here? Denmark, like Norway, has many well-adapted opportunities within outdoor activities, but has not been that successful in linking such activities to existing activities within schools. How could this be improved upon? Can they learn from Norway and Iceland here? Sharing and exchanging experiences is a win-win situation.

Surveys will be made of the present situation, its strengths and weaknesses. Needs and desires will be revealed in a structured and adaptive way and a tool will then be developed – a type of instruction manual – which will ease cooperation within the framework and plan that all partners, especially the schools, have agreed upon and will be able to depend upon. This tool will be digital and user-friendly.

We will also disseminate our experiences and results digitally, via the media and through presentations and seminars. Each country will arrange a themed seminar in which the focus will be on improved health. We realize that measures must be taken and the reason for this – but what is the best way to do it? The project is ambitious in its scope – not just locally, but also regionally, nationally and on a European scale. The final subsidiary goal is therefore to create as many win-win situations as possible.

Project Website

https://oppdalwinwin.wordpress.com/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 132918 Eur

Project Coordinator

Oppdal videregående skole & Country: NO

Project Partners

• Verkmenntaskólinn á Akureyri
• Feriecenter Slettestrand A/S
• Oppdal Idrettslag
• Knattspyrnufelag Akureyrar
• Fjerritslev Gymnasium