EAT MOVE LEARN across the border Erasmus Project

Project Title

EAT MOVE LEARN across the border

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project ‘EAT MOVE LEARN across the border’ combines the internalization of theoretical knowledge and practical implementation of healthy delicious food (that teenagers in Germany and the Netherlands accept as a daily school snack) and an active lifestyle. Altogether, an incipient number of 100 pupils of the participating schools in the Netherlands and Germany will immerse into the world of full grain and vitamins but also fat and hidden sugar. This eye-opening experience will be supplemented by fun sports and an open dialogue about body awareness.
The pupils design and create healthy snacks that are sold in their respective cafeteria in both countries. Products are appealingly labeled as healthy and marked as the pupils’s invention. These products are sold at a low price in order to arouse interest and encounter sceptisism. Since a healthy lifestyle means a combination of healthy food and physical activity, the pupils will be introduced to less spread (fun) sports like e.g. bubble soccer, climbing in woods, or archery. It is the project’s intentional goal to include and involve all pupils in the introduced sports activities, no matter what their physical fitness is. All participating pupils individually profit from this experience as there are different difficulty levels. Parallely, there are discussions in seminars about body awareness and the importance of a health-conscious life (background knowledge).

This project is the launch of a new long-term relationship regarding transnational exchange on various levels, such as common work on nutritional and activity projects, language (which will include the exchange of Dutch, English and German) and cultural aspects (family life, school life).

The kick-off exchange (in fall 2019 and again in fall 2019 in a new cast) is a diversified event starting with ice-breaker activities, followed by the introduction of baseball and a first talk about dealing with health issues and problems in the Netherlands as well as Germany. Topics like sugar consumption, exercise in everyday life, assessment of so-called Superfood are on the agenda. What food is considered healthy in the Netherlands? And what in Germany? What similarities and differences are there between the two countries? Further actions and acquisitions are the planning and production of healthy and attractively presented snacks (the student company of the Schulzentrum Lohne Germany produces the packaging for the new healthy snacks for the Dutch and German school ), the purchase of freely accessible water machines and finally the “School Food Festival” (LECKER LEKKER Europa*) where healthy snacks of both nations will be accessible to a broad public in the Netherlands and Gemany (all pupils, staff, parents, school board, primary schools etc.). Here, the Dutch and German participating students cook and bake healthy local dishes for people in their village/town. In this way, the term ‘German-Dutch friendship’ takes on a whole new dimension. This European project also meets with great enthusiasm among our extracurricular partner ‘Lohner Landbäcker’. The company provides its resources to our schools (bakery, kitchen, cafeteria). It is also a goal of the project that German and Dutch students learn that regional German and Dutch products are not only healthy, but also delicious (LECKER LEKKER Europa*). Since we also have many students from other European nations in both schools, we also intend to integrate their expertise in healthy snacks from their country of origin (eg. Poland, Bulgaria and Romania) in the frame of the ‘School Food Festival’.

To communicate that health and physical activity are fun, this project is framed by exciting and instructive school trips to the Olympia Training Center in Eindhoven and the football stadium in Bremen (Werder Bremen). All in all, this project helps Dutch and German students to broaden their horizon regarding international healthy food as well as sports and supports them in changing unhealthy habits.

* LECKER LEKKER (Europa) is a pun combining the German and Dutch word for “delicious”. ‘Europa’ is the word that both countries use for the English term ‘Europe’.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 64998 Eur

Project Coordinator

Schulzentrum Lohne & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs Regio Schijndel