Feel good to live together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Feel good to live together

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Disabilities – special needs; Access for disadvantaged; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Nowadays, in Europe and all over the world, teens / youngsters live in a society where it’s difficult for them to find individual and collective landmarks. This affects the balance between their bodies and their minds. The derangements are numerous: stress, a bad diet, difficulty to feel well and to communicate, intolerances.

Within our European exchange Erasmus +, associating four countries, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and France, we wanted to boost behavior changes concerning how to manage food and body control in order to struggle against a recurrent and worrying phenomenon : the malaise of young Europeans / European youngsters. The main aim is that each young learner can gain psychological and human advantages from the teachings during the transversal activities led by each partner, with a public of secondary school students involved in the project. The number of participants is of 2500 all countries mixed up. Their profile is varied: pupils, teachers, parents, head teachers, relaxation therapists, dietitians, craftsmen, cultural guides, participants of the middle associative.

« Feel good to live together », this is what is at stake in this project.

Nowadays school is the perfect place to make habits evolve insofar as the young learner is the protagonist of his / her training. Active, open-minded and motivating educational methods, with which the teens can assess their activities by themselves, are necessary for them to become aware of their evolutions and understand/ grasp their successes or the solutions to find.

In an educational context, where it is more and more necessary to refer to reality in order to understand / grasp the human challenge / issue, the young learner must give sense to his/her learnings. This educational and didactic commitment will precisely guide the approach to its purposes : the making of a well-being guidebook and a permanent calendar among all participating countries of this European project.

The environment of the exchange is ideal for the execution of the project : well-being is a capital issue to feel good with the others. When you feel good with the other, you care for him/her, you respect his/her differences, you open Europe’s borders and, faced with intolerance, meeting the others beyond one’s frontiers is a major asset.

Within this European context, activities are led by decompartmentalizing the skills and by implementing a common progression among the different partners. Discovering other practices enables to think in a universal way and, this European dimension opens to a more conscious reflexion of the approach at stake. In each country, then all together, the young learners complete a competition of the best logo, a culinary and seasonal permanent calendar, culinary works. They meet health professionals (sophrologists, dietician), they also practice exercises of sophrology and relaxation, compose sketches and posters about the theme of intolerance, in an autonomous and dynamic way, thanks to assessment tools that they develop themselves. It is essential that the young learners feel willing and cooperate in order to make them aware of the process and in order to make the transnational meetings positive.

This experiment can only be carried out successfully with a multilateral and harmonious collaboration of all partners, and in this situation, a strong team, aware of the issues of the project, is a must.

It is by questioning the world, together, beyong the cultural barriers and in a common energy, that the youngsters can make it evolve. Each youngster having taken part in the project cannot stay insensitive to big issues such as tolerance and balance between body and mind. Opening up to other cultures enables to make food comportments evolve, better manage stress by sharing worries, better accept the look from others and struggle against prejudices. The other being different with his / her differences reassures us and makes us evolve. Mobility and welcoming within the families encourage this open-mindedness. This dissemination is essential for the young learner to find his/her place as a European citizen, living in a city, a region, a country, a continent and a planet.

This permanent questioning will precisely guide the project to its purposes, the benefits of which are measurable and assessable(use of the guidebook in each school, evolution of the comportments, long-term reflexion). The ambition of the project could then go beyond the countries initially committed by enlarging the use of this guidebook to all European countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 62675 Eur

Project Coordinator

OGEC COURS SAINTE THERESE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Zakladna skola,Nabrezna 95,Nove Zamky
• Gimnazjum nr 1 im. Tadeusza Kosciuszki w Nysie
• Alternative Learning Programme