Healthy, fit and never quit! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Healthy, fit and never quit!

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Early childhood education and care; Recognition (non-formal and informal learning/credits)

Project Summary

The project is based on the idea of preparing young people of school age for difficulties such as stress, pressure to perform and personal setbacks in life. These strategies are to be taken from sports education science, home economics for healthy eating and the psychological field.
This basic idea of empowering young people stems from the current needs of many students. On behalf of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Of Munich on 28.-Psych. Yvonne Schiller stated on 28.02.2011 that 50% of the disease “depression” begins in childhood. In adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17, the disease remains undetected at first, and in adulthood it is almost 50% who have this disease, but this is never diagnosed.
So the question arises as to how to combat the triggers and causes of mental illness. After the first well-founded movement therapy programs from 1970, it is noticeable in Germany that almost all psychiatric-psychotherapeutic or psychosomatic clinics in Germany offer sports and movement therapy measures.
Already in ancient Greece, the goal of aristocratic education was an optimal mental and physical maturation. Physical exercises and mental activities thus played a major role for Greek intellectuals in the formation of personality. In almost 2000 years, the functionality of the body in connection with the mind has not changed. Only the external circumstances and influences are different. The ability to strengthen our minds through physical exercise and activity is anchored in our biological system and still works.
It makes no sense to wait for such diseases to develop in order to cure them at the expense of the state, which is usually only partially linked to success. The responsibility of school education is to prepare students for possible difficulties in life and to give them strategies, which allows them to overcome the hurdles themselves. The aim of this Erasmus project is therefore to make pupils understand the close link between sport, spirit and healthy eating and to give them the opportunity to find their own way of success by giving adolescents the opportunity to succeed. correct strategies.
The aim of the project is to help participants achieve a stronger self-confidence, develop strategies to overcome the difficulties in their lives. Another major point of this project is the nutritional hazards which are uncovered and show alternatives for how to achieve a balanced diet on a daily basis. In addition, this project will help to eliminate the negative autosuggestive thoughts of the participants and replace them with positive self-influence. Participants should find out how to deal with defeats, draw from these defeats to succeed. moreover, each goal should be well perceived in the future as a challenge from several stages, which individual steps step by step should be mastered.
A total of 6 schools from Europe are participating in this project: Leonardo da Vinci Gesatmschule Hückelhoven / Germany; Scoala Gimnaziala”Zaharia Stancu from Rosiorii de Vedi / Romania; Escola Bésica e Secundria da Ponta do Sol / Portugal; Istituto Comprensivo Mazzarino / Italy; 7th Gymnasium of Kavala / Greece; EPLEFPA LOT ET GARONNE / France.
1. Helathy food in school
In this activity, the part-hemers learn how to handle healthy foods. In addition, responsibility should be conveyed with one’s own diet. We learn to cook healthy and put off unhealthy habits
2. Body and soul
Participants should understand and independently discuss the close connection between the mental state (here: mind) and the physical condition (here: body).
A healthy body promotes a healthy mental state, which means that if an individual is physically well, then that person will also achieve a better general condition mentally.
This theoretical assertion is to be examined during the meeting and correlations are to be proven in a comprehensible and transparent scientific manner.
3. Milestones
At this meeting, the participants are to overcome two major challenges, one sporting and one spiritual, in mixed groups, by means of strategic thinking.
The mindset behind this term “stage goals” is called strategic thinking. In the meeting it is necessary to find out and describe which strategy you are using in order to achieve a biggoal andthus solve theproblem.
4. No retreat, no surrender
In this meeting, participants learn that defeats are part of life. Defeats must not be judged negatively, but must always benefit from every defeat. Participants learn the important strategy of getting stronger from defeats and never giving up.
5. Sugar – the legal drug
In order to avoid this negative development, we show in our meeting the dangers of sugar and show alternatives how we can replace the “white drug”.
6. Autosuggestion – the positive self-talk
This strategy should be actively executed and discussed in the meeting. The goal of this activity is to erase the negative autosuggestions from the participants’ brains and replace them with positive thoughts.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 175710 Eur

Project Coordinator

Leonardo da Vinci Gesamtschule Hückelhoven & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Istituto Comprensivo Mazzarino
• Escola Básica e Secundária da Ponta do Sol
• Scoala Gimnaziala”Zaharia Stancu”
• EPLEFPA LOT ET GARONNE
• 7th Gymnasium of Kavala