Our healthy school: How we make students fit for the Future Erasmus Project

Project Title

Our healthy school: How we make students fit for the Future

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: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Health and wellbeing; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Conditions of living and spending free-time have changed drastically for young people. In many respects these changes lead to rather problematic developments in the lifestyles of our students in terms of having negative consequences for their health. In the light of these more or less recent tendencies we have developed the desire to set up and carry out a project that focuses on health: „Our healthy school: How we make students fit for the future.“

Obviously we wanted to include exercise, healthy diet and fitness into the course of our project. In the process of developing the details it quickly became clear that it was important to us to pay particular attention to “mental health”, “internet safety and netiquette”, “healthy environment – Fridays for future” and prevention programmes as well.

Our project aims at supporting students to lead a meaningful, healthy life as European citizens, who take active responsibility in their communities and are able to use digital media safely and considerately.

After having won schools from the United Kingdom, Latvia, Greece, Sweden and Spain as partners we planned each of our meetings to be focused on one central aspect of health including and complementing general collaborative activities. These aspects are: sports, healthy diet, digital literacy, ethical values, mental health and environment.

Five schools will take part in the mobilities with 4 students (ideally two girls and two boys) from grades 4 to 7, who will be accompanied by two teachers. One of the schools will take part with teachers only, this fact is further explained in the application. The participating students are planned to be accommodated by host families. In addition to the attendance of classes they will be assigned with the task of documenting the meetings and uploading their results on our online platform.

Aside from the activities in the context of the meetings, participating schools will conduct activities and workshops at their respective schools through the whole course of the project. These will also include collaborations with parents as well as non-school partners.

As a school that has a curricular sports programme we have been cooperating with local sports clubs for some time now. Among others these include a rowing and a sailing club as well as a dance and a football club. These partners are willing to offer activities for our students in the context of the project. Beyond that we will also offer activities associated with popular trend sports. We expect that we can show and offer our students health promoting and meaningful alternatives that can replace or complement current free-time habits, which might be considered problematic or unhealthy.

Promoting a healthy lifestyle necessarily entails an enhanced focus on prevention programmes. The various stimulations and dangers of digital media and virtual realities influence our students in many different ways especially since teenagers are faced with the pressure of being „always online“. The habits that come with this exposure have a relevant impact on their mental health. We want to react to that by implementing various innovative measures to promote mental health and taking initiatives to strengthen digital literacy.

Last but not least we would like to give our students the opportunity to think of themselves as young Europeans in an international community by giving them the chance to take part in workshops and international meetings. We expect that they will be able to learn that people of different cultural background face the same, similar or very different challenges. They will also have the chance to make personal contacts, establish friendships, reduce prejudice and barriers – international and intercultural understanding will grow.

For our meetings we plan to make the results of our local projects available and share experience and insights. This way all partners can learn from one another and be inspired by new ideas.
Successful activities can be incorporated in the respective school curricula and contribute to the establishment of long-term programmes that lead to school communities that actively promote healthy lifestyles of their students.

Project Website

https://twinspace.etwinning.net/96562/pages/page/713666

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 21507,49 Eur

Project Coordinator

Wiestorschule Überlingen & Country: DE

Project Partners

• St Aidan’s Church of England Primary School
• 2o Dimotiko Chanion
• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Alhama
• Furulidsskolan