Contribution and effect of self-oriented body methods in the practice of health prevention Erasmus Project

Project Title

Contribution and effect of self-oriented body methods in the practice of health prevention

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Access for disadvantaged; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Context and background of the project
The Prevention Act passed in Germany in 2015, like other health policy strategies and programs in the EU, ensures that health promotion and prevention gain in social importance. In this context, the project examines the contribution and effect of self-oriented body methods in the practice of health prevention. It takes up these question on the basis of the eutonie method and brings them into a transnational reflection context as part of a partnership for the exchange of good practice. It is also about reducing the barriers to access for people who are disadvantaged socially, in education or in terms of access. Furthermore it improves health literacy and integrates aspects of physical education as a basic health education topic.

Project goals
With the exchange of self-oriented body methods, the following should be achieved:
– deeper examination of the system of health-related prevention in a country comparison
– to check conceptual approaches of body pedagogy for their connectivity in the preventive area
– to develop body pedagogical approaches for use in the preventive area
– to improve the professional positioning of offers in the field of health prevention across borders
– the development of quality criteria for the preventive use of self-oriented body methods
– to facilitate the transfer of the project results into corresponding training courses and offers

Number and profile of the participants
Four institutions work together in the project: The association IGS – Tübingen Institute for Health Promotion and Social Research (DE) is based on key ideas of social education and on the paradigms of contemporary health promotion. It is a project executing agency and platform for health-related offers and events. The Eutonie Academy Austria (AT) sees itself as a platform for the promotion and dissemination of self-oriented body methods such as Eutonie in Austria. A wide range of professional approaches to health promotion and prevention are taken into account in their own courses such as training and further education. Vereniging voor Eutonie (BE) operates across borders in the Flemish-Dutch language area. As a professional association, it networks practitioners in the field of body work and therapy, organizes further training and is responsible for quality assurance in the training area. The Associaton pour le developpement de l’eutonie ADE in Paris (FR) is a training facility for specialists in the field of body work and therapy. It is closely linked with the national umbrella organization AFEGA.

Activities
Central activities in the project are the partner meetings. Here practical experience and knowledge are exchanged and made mutually accessible. Structured research by the project partners, which initiate and support further development processes in transnational exchange, is used as preparation. Project results are published in working papers and an online brochure and are disseminated in the respective specialist networks. An important focus is on integration in training contexts.

Methodology for implementing the project
The project team sees itself as a focus group and is based on communicative methods such as TCI and peer-to-peer advice. The research tasks are structured with guidelines, the concept development takes place with communicative-pragmatic procedures. The quality of the project is assessed using qualitative methods of self-evaluation.

Expected results and impact
There is a knowledge transfer between the partners involved about approaches, attitudes and practice with regard to their offer in the field of prevention and health promotion. In addition, the exchange of experience and the conceptual reflection will open and improve the quality of the offer. Participating institutions can implement quality aspects and expand the emphasis of their work accordingly. In addition, direct and indirect target groups with their respective needs can be increasingly considered.

Potential long-term benefits
The project partners’ intention to broaden the target group-specific and accessible offers for holistic body-oriented prevention leads to the conceptual design and implementation of corresponding standard offers. After the project has been completed, this approach should also be integrated and pursued in the area of training and further education for body work and therapy. The project’s online products are freely available in the long term, and the partnership can provide impulses for further transnational networking and for joint activities or new projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 56200 Eur

Project Coordinator

IGS – Tübinger Institut für Gesundheitsförderung und Sozialforschung e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Vereniging voor Eutonie
• ADE
• Eutonie-Akademie Österreich