Exploring cultures – food, health, challenges & alternative learning environments for a more sustainable lifestyle Erasmus Project

Project Title

Exploring cultures – food, health, challenges & alternative learning environments for a more sustainable lifestyle

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: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Exploring cultures – food, health, challenges & alternative learning environments for a more sustainable lifestyle is a project that aims to crate flexible learning pathways and adjust the learning to future skills as well as learners needs. Our main target is to create digital balance for our students and families and offer other activities to make them aware of the lifestyle they have today and possible means of action to make changes. We also want to contribute to the awareness of the lifestyle the students have today in different parts of Europe.
At the same time all schools and participants will have the opportunity to observe teachers in other school, to learn and reflect about pedagogical teaching methods.
All schools will contribute with knowledge in certain areas that will influence participanting school in their upcoming school development plans. This project will:
1. Change of the pedagogical methods to motivate more students – find other ways of teaching. Using new tools and learning environments and ways of thinking in teaching.
2. Adapting new methods and not relaying on the books (traditional learning) to be more innovative in the way of working with students.
3. Introduce new methods of work. To be more international (global citizenship), be openminded to other cultures, use ICT as tool in all subjects. In-real-life learning as part of lifelong learning.
4. Adapt crosscutting subjects in projects
5. Sharing – peer learning-cooperative leaning, best practise, workshops as teachers and other school staff are learning from each other.
6. Improve the knowledge in how to be creative and have other learning environments than classroom.
7. Communicate and present results by using different web tools.
8. Adapting new learning environments

Participants will observe, participate in lectures and workshops, discuss observations, share best practise and have possibility to reflect and change their own way of teaching.
Together, we will develop knowledge in how to educate our students and create a classroom where life-long learning is in focus, as well as our students adapt 21st Century skills needed in the future.
A benefit is the enhance motivation of both students and teachers as they learn and present their knowledge and cooperate with others. Another benefit will be the improvement of communicative competence in foreign language as well as sharing basic values, point of views and ideas of our partners.

We aim to be creative, have other learning environments than school such as outdoor learning, create eTwinning projects with our students to use digital tools in a context, motivate our students to be more physical active and reflect upon health, food and body. We are of course going to offer activities that include digital tools, cooperation, collaboration, creativity and learning more about students, lifes in other European countries as part of becoming aware of the European culture and belonging.
This will be an opportunity for participants from Serbia, Iceland, Finland and Sweden to learn more about the similarities in the European community through cooperation for both teachers and students as well as they will improve their multilanguage communication skills.

Though we are schools that want to give our students education that will affect their life and create balance. As part of the project we will plan for different challenges, competitions and assignments and focus on sharing brainbreaks, being physical active by walking and measuring distance – walk through Europe with digital map, give challenges to students and their family members, since we aim to affect the way of life and make all citizens more physical active for healthier lifestyles.
Since we are aware of our students being online, we want to offer projects through eTwinning to involve our students in this project as well, though only teachers will be participants.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 80316 Eur

Project Coordinator

Karlbergs skola & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Kyrkbackens skola / Pargas stad
• OS Kosta Trifkovic
• Húsaskóli