Growing up with healthy knowledge: Food, Recipes, Sports, Sustainability, and Health Erasmus Project

Project Title

Growing up with healthy knowledge: Food, Recipes, Sports, Sustainability, and Health

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutions; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“You are what you eat” is a phrase a lot of people use, and it is obvious that food has an enormous effect on everybody’s health, so a diet rich in certain nutrients would possibly become as unhealthy as the one lacking certain ones. Therefore, this project is hoped to build up the basis of a collaborative venture to encourage the sharing of personal experiences, mutual awareness and social understanding in order to live a healthy life in a sustainable world.
Our objectives target environment and climate change goals with the purpose of spreading through the school community the relevance of changing our nutrition habits in order to keep a sustainable economy in terms of agriculture, livestock and trade. Also, it implements the idea that sharing our tradicional cooking, sports and games, will make our students and countries more connected with each other, helping us building a stronger and more unite Europe, and integrating non European migrants in our schools and local communities.
The project connects with the improvement of healthy habits, implementing the development of key competences such us sport and health, environmentally friendly economy and farming through cross-curricular activities and technology tools. Nevertheless, a main objective to reach is the social inclusion of the student body, both local and migrant, by sharing traditions at every level to reinforce the sense of belonging to the multicultural reality called Europe.
The project will include students and teachers mobilities that will combine interdisciplinary work and educational values, so that the associated schools offer an updated quality of education.
It will be carried out by a group of European schools: Spain (coordinator) and Greece, Portugal, Bulgaria and Czech Republic (partners), all of them experienced members in previous international school associations, one remarkable criteria followed in order to select the partners. The eTwinning platform has been the starting point to gather the present partners, since former teachers Erasmus training meetings and eTwinning forums and profiles, have made us become acquaintances.
A mentoring program in the frame of an eTwinning partnership will be designed in order to launch the project, helping the working teams implement the agreements and outcomes evenly.
Each school will work with students aged 12-15 and along through the two year school project, they’ll make 5 international mobilities, after a careful process of selection to obtain balanced travelling groups. Obviously, we would like to benefit the biggest number of students who will primarily work in groups at their own schools those previously agreed activities, which will be shared, highlighted, assessed and summarized during/or at the end of each mobility. The first part of each activity will be coordinated, basically, through eTwinning tools (forums, video conferences, pairwork…) to be able to scan the progression of the students’ tasks. Needless to say, there will be time to get to know the area to visit.
The help of the whole school community (parents, management, school counselor, school website, posters, magazines, interviews…) will be critical in order to raise change and keep on social awareness in terms of health and sustainability.
Regarding the activity section, there will be common activities to all the partner schools and activities performed individually in each country to be shared during mobilities or through ICTs. The common ones will deal with the creation of an Erasmus corner, a blog or webpage, an environmental awareness campaign, citizen promotion to revalue cultural traditions, performing laboratory tests to sort the real composition of food, making up scratch games on healthy life habits and nutrition, celebration of a gastronomic and traditional sports and games weeks, and the issue of an international recipe book, a guide to help families how to improve their household budget in a healthy and sustainable basis, and a protocol to accueil migrant students integrating their traditional recipes and games in our schools.
We expect our project to highly impact in participants and all our schools and local communities, changing the nutrition and sport habits of our students and their families, increasing their awareness of the necessity of a healthier life and a more sustainable economy, and how we can contribute to it. Besides, most of the planned activities will be included as projects to be integrated in our schools on a regular basis. We also plan to increase the impact of our project helping local or international NGOs now trying to improve the life of non European migrants arriving at our countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142231 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES de Beade & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola a Gymnazium Vodnany
• EKPAIDEFTIRIA BOUGA A.E
• Escola Secundária de Palmela
• 1 Sredno uchilishte ” Pencho P. Slaveikov”