Being Healthy makes you Wealthy Erasmus Project

Project Title

Being Healthy makes you Wealthy

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 : Strategic Partnerships for Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

BEING HEALTHY MAKES YOU WEALTHY was a Strategic Partnership for school education developed for students aged between 12 and 18 years old. Our partnership was aimed directly at teenagers with low healthy life conditions and indirectly at their families, their teachers and their didactic training in health education and the school administration. Within this primary target group there is a focus group included formed by overweight students taken into account, counselled and periodically “monitored” with modern technology.

The main objective of our project was to support the development of teenagers towards the realisation of a healthy way of life by promoting physical activity, healthy nutrition and emotional balance within the frame of a collaborative learning. All this and the awareness and removal of health-risk behaviours and addictions is leading consequently to the most important wealth of a human being: a healthy lifestyle.

Results of our project are:

DVD work out is fun, a DVD that gives instructions on different training methods and student sports for students.
The curricular auxiliary BE HEALTHY! is a collection of materials to be found on the various topics of a healthy live style for teachers.
Other results include the changed health awareness of the students who participated.
The intercultural acceptance as well as the language skills of the students have increased.
The participating colleagues got to know different approaches to health education in exchange and they have developed long-term partnerships.
Two partners of our project work together in the new EU project “My future life in a digital world”.
We spread our acquired knowledge to new generations of students’, making the project live long-time after its ending by creating and funding an advanced Sport course with project funds from our project.
The students learned how to use new technology in sports and education, such as the Polar Loop to create more movement and a healthier lifestyle and the students learned to tolerate each other as all students’, regardless their weight, will be valorised and encouraged to take part in partnership’s activities.
Especially we boosted students’ self-esteem (especially of overweight ones), making them proud of who they are, not the slaves of their body image by showing how hard they can work, as long as they are motivated.
Our target groups found in our activities inspiration, conviction and motivation to continue having an active, balanced and healthy life even after the ending of our project

The Teachers will educate for health new generations of students’, who will spread the information to their families and friends
We’ll continue attracting students’ in extra-curricular activities meant to promote healthy lifestyles.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 153190 Eur

Project Coordinator

David-Roentgen-Schule & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO TECNICO INDUSTRIALE STATALE “ALESSANDRO VOLTA”
• IES LA SENIA
• Profesionalna gimnazia po morsko koraboplavane i ribolov “Sveti Nikola”
• ERUDIO IZOBRAZEVALNI CENTER
• Zespol Szkol im. Ignacego Lukasiewicza w Policach
• Liceul Tehnologic “Petru Poni”