European Food Adventures Erasmus Project

Project Title

European Food Adventures

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: Natural sciences; Creativity and culture; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“Once upon a sweet day six girls met at a training course in Ankara, Turkey. They carried something related to food with them and they were strangely dressed. The girl from Turkey guided and hosted her new friends. They learned so much about that country and they had so nice time together and that they signed the “contract of friendship”. When it was time to leave, their friend from Croatia invited the rest to her own country to get to know that better and to strengthen their friendship. They all were very excited and thought that it would be a great idea to continue this journey to the rest countries. Furthermore, they decided to write a diary to keep their adventures alive and to give the opportunity to experience these beautiful places, to other people who would read it…”
It’s not just a fairy tale, it’s the real story of the two years Erasmus project between the six schools from Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal and Croatia that met and are going to cooperate in the “European Food Adventures” project.
Diet is an important factor which affects people’s health. The eating habits are adopted from early childhood. This is why particular awareness of the school is needed in this area. All partners have noticed that pupils have a more or less important problem with their eating habits and are worried about pupils’ health. Children receive many wrong messages through advertisements of unhealthy snacks. Furthermore they eat a lot of fast food and junk food and have sedentary lives.due to overuse of technological devices. Teachers also noticed that pupils have a little European conscience as they have little or no knowledge of Europe and European Union. It’s a main objective of this project to raise awareness about good eating habits and happy lifestyle with physical activities. Concurrently the project involves a better knowledge of the European Union, European traditions through healthy food and exercise instilling into children’s values such as respect to the national culture, heritage, national symbols, promotion of respect to foreign cultures and traditions and the equality of humans.
This project will give pupils the opportunity to improve English, ICT, presentation skills and research. The project is based on the idea of open learning and interdisciplinary work. Students and teachers will travel to partner countries to get to know each other, to work there together, to be in touch with their culture and education systems, to learn from one another and exchange ideas and experiences. They will build a garden, grow plants, watch their growth, visit farms, gardens, fields etc, they will cook and play, organize campaigns and presentations to the local community about healthy habits and the European dimension of the project. Common products will be: two books about traditional food and games, the story mentioned above at the begging of the text and two card games. There will be seminars to organize and many events. Happy moments with pupils’ families, cooking, playing, trying to reach a better vision of life and give pupils strength in mind and body and knowledge, too. Working in teams with planned objectives will allow pupils to develop other important citizenship skills, helping them become sociable, tolerant, responsible, with confidence.
All the schools have students with special needs and those who are marginalized. Many of them don’t like being at school and try to avoid learning. Because of this all the schools have decided to enrich their teaching methods with non formal practices and inclusive approaches and within this project it can be reached. Besides, the teachers will discover other European countries and cultures, meet European colleagues and educational systems, develop their awareness and knowledge about how to lead a healthy life, increase the use of foreign languages and ICT and discover different teaching methods in pedagogical approaches and school management and as a result they will make their teaching more attractive. The European dimension of the participating schools and their profile will be strengthened, too.
Networking, social media, newsletters, flyers, presentations at meetings,conferences, on exhibitions, fairs, carnival fests, promotional material and products, the project website are the most important tools for the dissemination of our project, its progress and results.
The main target groups are the teachers, pupils and their families. We estimate a total number of 4000 indirect participants who will learn about the project: parents and members of the local community, other schools, the online audience, will be indirect beneficiaries of the project activities by having access to the information provided by the project results and activities of dissemination.There is also an endless open number of possible indirect beneficiaries that can learn from the project in time, after the project remains available for useful guidance in the future, for the online audience.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 195064 Eur

Project Coordinator

Primary School of Ormilia Halkidiki & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Agrupamento de Escolas de Barroselas
• DIMOTIKO SCHOLEIO TSERIOU 1
• CAES L’AMISTAT
• Mehmet Cekic Ortaokulu
• Osnovna skola Lucac