Bring intuitive thinking into eating Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bring intuitive thinking into eating

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 : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing; Natural sciences

Project Summary

BITE aimed to exchange good practices regarding nutrition, health and wellbeing, water and food sustainability and security, and to supply students with the appropriate tools to become active agents and critical consumers.
The five school partners already participated in Erasmus + projects and come from the Meditarranen area (Italy, Cyprus, France, Portugal and Spain), this enabled them to unify criteria and to establish comparisons regarding dietary and nutrition culture.
The main project’s objectives were the following:
• effective students’ engagement with local and European food system issues through active problem solving, developing questions and investigating solutions;
• improvement of students’ awareness of healthy practices related to nutrition and environment;
• development of transversal skills, critical thinking and creativity by approaching the project’s tocip not only through STEM subjects but also through Literature and Arts;
• improvement of STEM skills, foreign language and ICT competences;
• promotion of European citizenship.
During the transnational meetings in Spain, France and Portugal students participated to the following activities using different methodological procedures such as cooperative learning, learning by doing, debate in groups and individual assignments:
• presentation of each partner school through video;
• presentation and selection of the project’s logo during the first meeting in Spain;
• oral presentation of the results of questionnaires about healthy food habits, food waste and water usage;
• analysis and discussion of data applying mathematical and ICT knowledge (creation of statistics, charts, videos)
• chemical and scientific experiments (analysis of energetic properties of food, of properties of industrial and homemade honey)
• laboratory and learning-by-doing activities (healthy cooking workshops, creation of an “European Vegetables Garden” with seed coming from each partner country and of a compost using waste food and gardening,water footprint game)
• meetings with local authorities and with experts (nutritionists and an Olympic sportsman in Barcelona, biological farmers in France and experts of sustainables diet and environment in Portugal)
• visit to significant places (Sabadell Central Market, the biggest market in Caen, the natural park “Quinta do Pisão)
• design of dissemination campaigns about the results of each meeting
Students have raised their awareness of the connection between the food system, health and environment. They have improved their English language and ICT competence, such as their STEM skills. Cooperation in international teams and the establishment of European relationships helped to increase their social skills and to expand their horizons.
As regards the impact on teachers, this project allowed the exchange of different teaching methods and practices and the awareness of the necessity of enhancing students’ key transversal skills. The successful European links established in this project will be continued through communication and further cooperation in video conferences, mails and blogs and Etwinning. Covid pandemia permitting partner schools are going to extend their cooperation in another Erasmus+ project in the near future.
The projects results have been disseminated not only within partner schools but also to students’ families, local communities, bodies of professionals, Ministries of Education and university representatives.
Through the project’s website, the Erasmus+ Project Result Database and the Etwinning Portal the project’s results will be exposed to a wider lifelong community.
The outcomes and the activities of this project can be repeated in the future by other schools and teachers and be completely integrated in schools and national curricula.

Project Website

http://sites.google.com/xtec.cat/erasmusbite/the-project

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117802 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE DI PAESE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• INSTITUT PAU VILA
• Agrupamento de Escolas Ibn Mucana
• Collège Hastings
• Lykeio Apostolon Petrou & Pavlou