Healthy lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits in teenagers Erasmus Project

Project Title

Healthy lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits in teenagers

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 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing; Creativity and culture

Project Summary

The goal of the project was to make students aware of the most common eating disorders among teens in order to prevent illnesses associated with wrong eating habits. Our aim was to promote healthy lifestyles, through positive eating habits, fostering new models of education through food culture, arts and sports. Besides we intended to make the students acquire more specific competences in the field of nutrition, through an informative campain against misinformation in the food labels and packaging,The schools involved had similar age groups but different cultural backgrounds, belonging to several specific cultures, thus they had different lifestyles and various eating habits. However, one aspect was common to modern teenagers. Frequently they had wrong eating habits and followed unhealthy diets, too rich in fats for their age.
The partnership involved 5 European Secondary Schools: Italy as school coordinator, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Slovakia.
Italy: experiences with international projects, students from different social strata in a small province; Lithuania: experiences with international projects, students from a rural background and often in families with low income; Portugal: experiences with international projects, students usually coming from families with low socio-economic status; Poland: involved in previous Comenius projects, students with special needs, numerous initiatives aimed at helping disadvantaged individuals and families; Slovakia: vocational secondary school with experience in Comenius, students with economic and geographical disadvantages.
All INTENTIONS and OBJECTIVES have been accomplished successfully and they were:
1 Becoming aware of our body and the connection between this and our psyche (“Mens sana in corpore sano” A healthy mind in a healthy body);2 Becoming aware of the importance of a healthy diet;3 Developing knowledge and understanding of the diversity of European cultures and languages and their value;4 Helping young people acquire the basic life skills and competences for their personal development;5 Encouraging the learning of modern foreign languages;6 Enhancing students ability in ICT and the development of innovative communication tools;7 Creating the Knowledge of our common roots with European countries;8 Improving the quality and quantity of the mobility of staff and pupils;9 Enhancing the Learning and the Methodology in CLIL;10 Developing, promoting and disseminating innovative materials and new teaching methods;11 Developing, promoting and disseminating innovative teacher training courses.
DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES:
1. Preparation – project management was set up, students were selected in each school partner through a motivational questionnaire and project workshops held in each school. Creation of the project blog+ logo, chosen through a competition among the different schools and maintained by the coordinator school: https://healthyteens.eu; 2. There were 3 transnational project meetings in Isernia( Italy), in Agueda( Portugal) and in Bratislava, (Slovakia) for only coordinators and teachers to discuss management issues, to visit lessons and to plan how good practices could be integrated into programmes of partner schools;3. We organized 5 (LTTA) short-term exchanges of students in Bratislava, Slovakia; in Mazeikiai, Lithuania; in Kraków, Poland; in Agueda, Portugal and in Isernia, Italy, where both teachers and students took part in the extra-curricular, education activities of the host school; 4. Results: art cookery book, unit calorie disc, T-shirts and caps, Geographical Map of Food, booklet of Easter traditions,Photo competition, relay story,videos Youth Passes, Erasmus Album.
METHODOLOGY:
Workshops between students, working in groups or pairs. Presentations, films, sharing information. Students’ reports to their peers.
Learning by doing, i.e. students worked in transnational groups, took part in interactive workshops, discussions and study visits to local factories and to the nearby cities and its landmarks.
RESULTS AND IMPACT:
1. Project website for the dissemination of results; 2. Impact on partner schools – the project has enhanced their extracurricular programmes with non formal methods;3. Impact on participating teachers: development of motivation, attitude, professional skills, English and ICT competences;4. Impact on participating students: learning a Healthy lifestyle,critical thinking, communicative skills in English, social, civic and intercultural competences.
LONG TERM BENEFITS: Students, as responsible Healthy Teens, actively will contribute to spread the results, experiences, products and good practices in the participating organisations, in the local communities and in the wider lifelong learning community. All materials are available on our school website, on the blog of the project and on the European Erasmus + Results Platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 91900 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISIS “Majorana-Fascitelli” Isernia & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Escola Secundária Adolfo Portela
• 15 Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace
• Mazeikiu Merkelio Rackausko gimnazija
• Stredna priemyselna skola dopravna