HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE Erasmus Project

Project Title

HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Environment and climate change; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“Healthy and Sustainable” is mainly an intercultural project, based on the idea that regular physical activity and sport, combined with an appropiate diet, contribute to the establishment and reproduction of healthy and sustainable lifestyles.
At present there is a social debate on the need for the search for sustainable development, areas such as food and sport cannot be left out of this debate, because both can play a very important role in spreading and raising awareness of the values of sustainability. For that reason, we must begin to mobilise in the search for a society that acquires a more sustainable development model.
We all know that children’s unhealthy eating habits, lack of physical exercise and sedentary lifestyles are a very serious problem that has recently emerged, especially due to the time they spend indoors using information and communication technology. This problem has become more and more worrying, due to the lack of time for parents to provide children with healthy home-made meals, which increases cases of obesity in adolescents. In addition to causing a wide range of physical and mental health problems, overweight dramatically increases the risk of developing obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, among others.

Sport has the invaluable capacity to motivate students and make them participants in their educational process, which will have a positive impact on their future personal and professional careers.

The specific objectives can be summarised as follows:
– The main objective of this project is the exchange of good practices and methodology in the study of healthier and more sustainable lifestyles.
– To improve the relationship between students and their school in order to reduce school absenteeism.
– To be proactive in sustainability, encouraging the use of recycling inside and outside the school.
– Raise awareness of the importance of climate change.
– To use innovative strategies through sport and food to offer a holistic education.
– To improve teaching through cooperative work with partners.
– To break down stereotypes and improve coexistence.
– To value Nature as intangible cultural heritage.
– To lead change and innovation in the educational field and to establish the school as a social dynamizer.
– To reduce by at least 50% the number of fast food consumers in our target group after 2 years of project implementation.
– To contribute socially in the search for a healthier and more sustainable society.
– To increase awareness of the benefits of healthy and sustainable eating to at least 70% of the participants.
– To increase the physical activity of students to a minimum of 1 hour per day (60%)
– To develop and increase knowledge about the wide range of European sports and cultural diversity.
– To raise awareness of the real benefits of active and healthy living and eating behaviour for children, parents and school staff.
– To understand the causes and consequences of obesity, practical ways to combat the current trend of sedentary lifestyles, how to become more active and spend time practising outdoor activities.

In short, young people will develop skills and competences such as teamwork, creativity and initiative necessary for their personal and social development, for their future and to be active European citizens aware of democratic values.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 117732 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES SAN LUCAS & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Yücel Boru Fen Lisesi
• PALATUL COPIILOR BISTRITA
• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE N°1 “don Lorenzo Milani”