Three Times Health is Happiness Erasmus Project

Project Title

Three Times Health is Happiness

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The project “3h=H” (Three Times Health is Happiness) embodies the three features we understand make up for health: physical health, social health and emotional health. The balanced combination of the three is what we believe makes us happy. The project is originated after we realised that some changes in our society are having a negative impact on our youngsters and that our values of welfare are at risk. We have became aware that a sedentary life, an unhealthy diet, bad use of social networks, bullying, and lack of social support are a threat to our students well being. This concern is the main motivation behind the project, we thought that if we could create a project where all the students could work around the idea of health and where they could learn all the benefits of having a good diet, practicing sports, socialising in a healthy way, and having emotional stability our objective could be reached. We thought that learning at the same time as they meet new people from other European countries is a unique opportunity to change their attitude and perception of the world around them. We want our students to understand that being part of Europe is not just to share a common land but to have a mutual European cultural heritage where the value of well-being is paramount.
Our project wants to make students aware of the importance of health, the value that the concept of health has for the economy, the better understanding of cultural diversity, and the relationship between health and sports to develop a lifelong interest in it. We want our students to use digital devices to communicate, to use the internet as a source of information in a critical and responsible manner, to become familiar with E-Twinning, and to learn how to design, customise, and build up a web App. Students will improve their digital and communicative competence in a foreign language, and their social and civic competence, learning how to cooperate and work together with students from different countries.
The project “3h=H” involves five non-homogenous schools from Italy, Portugal, Greece, Austria, and Spain. There will be a total of twenty students age 12-16 from each country, They will come from different social and economic backgrounds, with different learning abilities, and with different academic levels. There will be at least ten teachers involved from each country. The teachers involved are highly motivated and experts from the different fields covered in the project.
The result of our project is to create a healthy WebApp. In order to achieve this our project is divided into six sections. The first one includes formation activities, the next consists of four activities related to the four aspects of health studied in each section, and the last one is the presentation of the results of the project. Some activities involve the whole school community, such as the design of the App logo, the organisation of the schools’ healthy meals, the three Rs recycle plan, the sports competition at break time, the photo sports competition, the surveys etc. Other activities will be developed by the participants of the project such as the dish pyramid exhibition, the presentation of the perfect health care system, the leaflet of good practice when using social networks, the videos showing how to meet people face to face, and so on.
The methodology used will be mainly student-centered learning where the students will be learning in an autonomous way, being responsible for their own learning process. The project will encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary work where different subjects will be involved. The learning will be task-based. The students will work in groups encouraging a discussion method to share ideas. The research will be demonstrated by the students and role plays will be made. We think this methodology will be highly motivated for our students. Digital devices will be used for educational purposes and innovative ICT practises will prepare our students for the labour market.
The main result of our project is the WebApp. The idea of the WebApp is to continue using the results of the project as its use will last. Since the WebApp will help users decide what to do to improve their health. The results will be shown in the Erasmus school panel, school websites, eTwinspace, Erasmus+ results platform, local newspapers and they will be shared with educational authorities, and Teachers Training Centers.
The long term benefits we expect are the improvement of the physical, emotional and social health of our students, the development of the communicative and digital skills, the increment of the prestige of the schools, and the reinforcement of the concept of the European citizenship.
We truly believe in our project and we are confident that all the participants will fully benefit from it as well as enhancing our feeling of belonging to the European Community.

Project Website

http://erasmusmontevil.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159536 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Montevil & Country: ES

Project Partners

• LICEO GINNASIO “Q.O.FLACCO”
• Gymnasium of Platykampos
• NNÖMS Böheimkirchen
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Sancho I