I’ve got the POWER Erasmus Project

Project Title

I’ve got the POWER

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Health and wellbeing; Teaching and learning of foreign languages

Project Summary

“I’ve got the POWER” is a school exchange partnership in the field of education supporting exchange of good practices, with 6 schools from Italy, Poland, Turkey, Spain, Malta and Portugal.
The project was planned for school students between 14 and 16 years old girls and boys.
Smartphones are becoming a grand element in the lives of students. Nowadays as more and more students are spending their time to look at their smartphones. Smartphone use is negatively correlated with resilience, psychological well-being, life satisfaction and mindfulness. It is a very bad habit to break and it threatens physical, social and mental well-being of students.
Students who spent more time on social media, gaming, texting and chatting on their smartphones were not as happy as those who played sports, went outside and interacted with human beings. Using smartsphones prevent them having face to face conversations, developing social and personal skills and getting healthy. According to our resarch we found that pupils are spending less time meeting friends, socialising while increasing their time online. it is hard to stop yourself from repeatedly checking pages, emails or apps. Heavy smartphone use can often be symptomatic of other underlying problems, such as stress, depression or loneliness. Briefly; the students are deprived of many benefits, doing sports can provide them.
Doing sports can help our students make friends, develop self-esteem and self-discipline, learn about team work, develop mental, physical and social skills, happy, active, getting fit and healthy.
After tracking situations of our students, we decided to get our students away from smartphones by directing them to other hobbies and activities, such as sports which has been a crucial part of many education systems.
Project partners offer sports such as:Trekking, Table and Court Tennis, Cycling, Canoeing, Kitesurfing, Rugby, Running, Floarball, Paddle Surf, Bubblesoccer, Tree Climbing, Archery, Swimming, Basketball, Volleyball, Handball, Badminton, Orienteering, Weightlifting, Taekwondo, Waterpolo. Thinking that project launches a sport campaign as offering solutions to using more smartphones our students will exercise and train form of sport regularly.
This project also include walking and running groups, briefly a range of multi sport and physical activity groups. Teams and Individual sports competitions will take place during the project as well. The competitions will take place in both national and international activities and they require regular training of the students in teams or individually depending on the sports what they choose. Also we will organise seminars and conferance about the benefits of sports and about smartphone addiction. We will invite professional sportsmen to our schools and they will have conversations with our students about healthy lifestyles. Peer mentoring programme will be introduced (It will be formed between the pupils who do sport properly and the ones who don’t)
We will learn traditional sports and street games eachothers. Traditional dancing altogether with songs which are popular in the host countries provides the students enjoy being together on an international dimension. This kind of activities also makes them socialize with each other easily. We will also do nature-outdoor sports.
Other activity is an unusual-interesting sports. We offers opportunities to take up a new sport. This sports will have attract students’ attention and have fun.
Our Project is supposed to turn our students’ attention to the sports.They should stop wasting time on smartphones for all day long and start active. It doesnt’t matter how and where they do sports , there will be many ability they develop thanks to doing sports and can carry them to their future lives as a positive contribution. Encouraing students start participating in sports, they are far more likely to stay active, healthy, be self confident, happy and successful as they grow older. Also sports builds their ability to concentrate and focus in class.
Sport can bring all the people together, no matter what their origin, background, religious beliefs or economic status. When students participate in our project, they can experience real joy, stop wasting time in front of their smarsphones and getting healty.
Getting motivated to learn or improving their foreign languages are the natural consequences of the partnerships.
All the activities of the project highlight the impact of physical education and sport on students’ social and moral development
The number of participants is limited in internationally however in our national activities much more students, teachers and parents will participate in.
We built a reliable partnership via eTwining and former contacts.
We have a resource and aggrement plan, documented objective and goals and improved team communication strategies and well organised dissemination activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197995 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO D’ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE IPSIAITI “MAZZONE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• IES LA VEREDILLAS
• II Liceum Ogolnoksztalcace w Gdansku
• SMC Verdala
• FARUK NAFIZ CAMLIBEL ANADOLU LISESI
• Escola Secundária Campos de Melo, Covilhã