Corrective VET international training for obesity prevention and healthy life style promotion Erasmus Project

Project Title

Corrective VET international training for obesity prevention and healthy life style promotion

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

According to the EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020, the proportion of the population in EU countries who are overweight or obese remains worryingly high for adults and for children and young people, despite action at the European level to reverse the rising trend (EU Action Plan on Childhood Obesity 2014-2020,p.2). The implications of overweight and obesity in the Europe are stark: the prevalence of obesity has more than tripled in many European countries since the 1980s and with this rise comes a concomitant increase in rates of associated non-communicable disease. The WHO’s Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI), around 1 in 3 children in the EU aged 6-9 years old were overweight or obese in 2010. This is a worrying increase on 2008, when estimates were 1 in 4.
The target groups of the CORRECT IT! project were nurses, social workers and teachers who are appropriate professionals to successfully tackle the issue of obesity prevention and promoting a healthy lifestyle, taking into account their role in advising and promoting healthy lifestyle habits. Project partners were universities, professional organizations, research centers and NGOs from Romania, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, and Norway.
CORRECT IT! has contributed to the decrease of this important global issue with the following outputs: a healthy lifestyle concept analysis and collection of good practices, a VET obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle curricula, a tested platform and VET blended learning obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle training materials. The project also created a pool of 26 trainers from the 5 countries and piloted the training at international and local level with 686 trainees among the 3 target groups and other health and psycho-social professionals who acquired knowledge, skills and tools to provide clear messages on healthy diets and nutrition, physical activity, prevention of obesity and metabolic diseases and nondiscriminatory behavior towards the obese or overweight persons.
The 6 dissemination activities with 312 participants, the numerous awareness raising events, and materials elaborated during the project implementation have contributed to the obesity prevention and promotion of a healthy lifestyle among target groups, patients, beneficiaries, children, teen agers, adults, public authorities, other stakeholders. The impact of the CORRECT IT! project during the sustainability period of the project through the efforts of direct and associated partners in the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 263651 Eur

Project Coordinator

Ordinul Asistentilor Medicali Generalisti, Moaselor si Asistentilor Medicali din Romania Filiala Iasi & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ASOCIACIJA KURYBINES ATEITIES IDEJOS
• Asociatia Everest
• INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE PORTALEGRE
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FOGGIA
• Triskelion- Forening for anvendt forskning og kunnskapsmobilisering