Healthy bodies! Healthy minds! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Healthy bodies! Healthy minds!

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: Inclusion – equity; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Healthy bodies! Healthy minds! project started from the idea that students have many problems related to health, being tired and stressed most of the time. These problems are caused by their bad lifestyle habits having also consequences on their performance at school. Their school results are not as good as expected, students don’t concentrate enough during classes, they have problems with classes attendance and disengagement in school and the worst thing is sometimes school leaving at an early age.
This project aims at making students more sensitive to health which is considered a state of complete physical, mental and social wellness and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Many people think about wellness in terms of physical health only. All the schools have the same need: to highlight the importance of all health dimensions in order to improve students’ success, results and concentration. Maintaining students’ health and a harmonious development is the basic condition for an effective education, an education which encourages reflection, creativity, trust, solidarity and movement, determining young people to spend more time outdoors. Outdoor education and health training in the educational process are innovative concepts for all six partner schools.
This project aims at:
– raising awareness and knowledge on all six health dimensions: physical, mental, social, spiritual, emotional and environmental for 300 students from partner schools by the end of the project
– increasing by 50%, every month, the number of actions and educational activities that support healthy and active lifestyles among students
– stimulating 240 participants’ school success by increasing the educational services quality providing a healthy lifestyle to students in an interdisciplinary way in order to improve their school results by August 2021
– determining 400 young people to spend time outdoors and interact with people and nature by the end of the project
All partners agreed to divide the project timeline into concrete topics: GR – Social Health, IT – Environmental Health, ES – Emotional Health, PL – Physical Health, TR – Spiritual Health, RO – Intellectual Health.
Each partner schools will select up to 30 students, aged 13 to 18 years old, who will take part in project activities. The ones who are successful and active during the project will take part in the project LLT activities. Participants will take part in a series of activities like: creating the national project websites which will be parts of the common website and regularly update them, creating an Erasmus+ project corner, joining the Facebook group and create eTwinning accounts, working on presentations about their cities/villages, regions, countries, discussing about the different types of health, creating presentations on each Health Dimension, taking part in activities to improve their Health Dimensions, participating in logo competition, taking part in meetings with local institutions, disseminating activities and results at school after each visit, creating digitalised video reports of the activities, creating questionnaires and informative brochures on each health dimension, creating an annual e-magazine and a booklet on health dimensions, creating an online guide on health dimensions. Beside this, there will be intangible results like: improvement of students’ knowledge and experience in the use of English level and within the fields analysed, development of empathy, tolerance, global citizenship, the ability to pass over cultural and linguistic barriers, giving education a European dimension, improvement of teachers’ skills and competences, pedagogical skills, development of ICT skills
This project will have a sustainable effect on each partner school. All schools involved in this project teach English as a foreign language. Giving their students the chance to understand the importance of health dimensions, the meaning of foreign languages learning and practical use in real life situations the schools will improve their languages teaching efficiency. This project will have a meaningful impact on teachers, who will improve their knowledge on health dimensions, compare and discuss methodologies used in the teaching learning process, give a European dimension to education, create a successful environment for formal, non-formal and informal learning, improve their ICT skills. All schools will continue their cooperation with institutions which are expected to partner within this project and also see possibilities to highlight the importance of all health dimensions.
Digitalised videos reports from activities, questionnaires, informative brochures, the booklet, the e-magazines and the online guide will be available on the project website and the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and various institutions will be able to implement all these activities into their curricula.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 189720 Eur

Project Coordinator

Colegiul National de Informatica Spiru Haret & Country: RO

Project Partners

• ITE P.Savi
• Szkola Podstawowa w Zespole Szkol w Skolyszynie
• GYMNASIUM KERAMOTIS
• KARAMAN LISESI
• Colegio Los Olivos