Health and Safety Erasmus Project

Project Title

Health and Safety

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: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Health and wellbeing; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

2HB (HealthyBrain-HealthyBody) comprises the collaboration of a group of secondary school teachers from Arles, De Panne, Hamburg, Braga, Serres and Seville to deal with the issue of “Health and Safety”. Our previous project, SustainMe which was made up of 4 of the partner schools, attempted to tackle the issues around our lack of sustainability. Although the results of our previous project were remarkable, we teachers and collaborators agreed that profound changes needed to happen at an individual level and then spread outwards.
2HB integrates the 6 aspects we consider to be essential solutions for our schools and communities: Emotional Health, Cybersafety & Privacy, Physical Health, Food and Health, Addictions, and Hazards in everyday life. The list of topics was drafted by a committee representing all partner schools. Each topic will be coordinated and hosted by the partner school having the most experience in that particular field. Students will be co-responsible for the content, method and design of the outcomes, as well as the planning and execution of the project meetings. Additionally, students will evaluate and disseminate the various outcomes.
Each school will provide a core group of about 25 traveling students and 2 to 4 teachers, which will periodically be assisted by non-teaching staff, experts, other teachers and their students in order to help provide relevant information to each topic. Each school year, the student core group will be partly renewed, as other classes and teachers will become involved.
In sum, groups of pupils will participate in 6 short-term exchanges corresponding to each of the subtopics throughout the 3-year project. Four long-term study mobilities of pupils will reinforce the cooperation between the organising school and one of the partner schools. To enhance these blended mobilities, 3 short-term joint staff training events will be organised for an in-depth study of eTwinning platform tools (C7), digital skills for teachers (C8) and dynamic, cross-curricular language teaching (C9), three major aspects of 2HB.
We will exchange best teaching practices and methods successful at motivating, teaching and supporting students, including potential early school leavers (POTES). We aim to encourage them to be passionate about improving their health and safety. Participants will begin by finding ways of making changes, firstly on a personal level and later on a local and a larger level. This project will be carried out in all 6 schools portraying a new way of encouraging POTES students to continue their education at school.
All students will improve on their soft and hard skills during this 3 year project. Additionally, staff and students will benefit from using English at all stages of the project, thus promoting bilingual classes and underlining the need for a degree of fluency.
The opportunity to visit other European schools during long and short-term exchanges of pupils, living with host families and learning about their customs and cultural heritage will help students’ personal development. It will also help them realise that despite their differences, they also confront similar issues as they transition into adulthood. We seek the support of the EU to help increase their transnational competences and sense of European identity which will lead to a safer physical and digital environment. In that context, the long-term study mobilities of pupils will help them deepen their experience and realise the importance of disseminating their knowledge in their home countries during and after their mobility.
With thanks to very different types of lessons, mini projects, exhibitions, research, surveys, interviews, documentaries, scientific experiments and workshops in various subjects, the students will be introduced to multiple ways of acting on and expressing their thoughts and needs. The tools acquired throughout this project will help students during and after their school life. We expect improvements in the field of language, ICT, communications, etc. Participants will also gain more self-confidence by giving presentations, conducting interviews, teaching others, implementing self-made lesson plans, engaging in entrepreneurship with local businesses, etc. Furthermore, the teachers directly involved in the project will discover new teaching techniques which they will pass on through in-service training.
They will be asked to come up with innovative solutions to live a healthier and safer life. The best solutions will contribute to the sustainability of the project itself by their progressive implementation in the school communities and homes of the teams involved. The outcomes include happier and healthier participants, recognizing that preventing illnesses promotes a more tolerant and sound (school) society.
This project is, in essence, the beginning of something that has the potential to change all classroom situations when it comes to project-based activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 247735 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE MONTMAJOUR & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educación Secundaria Martínez Montañés
• Immaculata-Instituut
• Julius-Leber-Schule
• 4th General Lyceum Serres
• Agrupamento de Escolas D. Maria II – Braga