Mission Possible Erasmus Project

Project Title

Mission Possible

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

This Project aims on building a sustainable working career by supporting health and wellbeing. This is done with a diversity of viewpoints and perspectives surrounding the concept of 21st century skills, individual competences and personal capabilities. This project addresses to three key aspects of building a sustainable future: it supports the Wellbeing, Enhances the development of entrepreneurial skills and gives a chance to develop lifelong learning skills for its participants.

The promotion of good health is a of particular importance in the Europe 2020 strategy, especially in relation to the attainment of its smart and inclusive growth priorities. Health expenditure constitutes a significant part of government and private expenditure in the European Union (EU). There is a strong correlation between educational attainment and self-perceived health. According to the European statistics the low-educated people have the least positive assessment of their health status. Personal habits play a crucial role in wellbeing thru maintaining good health and ability to work. Largest causes of early retirement in Europe are all related to the inactive lifestyle, dietary habits, and mental health.

Students will need skills to obtain, to interpret and understand basic health information and services and use such information and services in ways that are enhancing the wellbeing. It is also vital that the students understand preventive physical and mental health measures, including proper diet, nutrition, exercise, risk avoidance and stress reduction and use the available information to make appropriate health-related decisions. Educational institutions can support this process by educating their students but a more sustainable solution would be to support a change of culture within the college in a manner that the students can relate to.

How can we reach this goal? The one’s that can best answer the question are the students! Giving them a chance to discuss these themes in multicultural and multidisciplinary working groups give these findings and solutions a broader impact and can at its best be seen as a new movement to feel well.

This project is designed to have four identical cycles and each of them is crucial to build the new culture of wellbeing to vocational colleges. Each of these weeks will ponder in a sub theme of health that will be investigated and influenced
• Lifemanagement (Sleep, Stress, Psycological wellbeing, Social relations)
• Alcohol, smoking and other drugs
• Physical activity (Daily activities, Motivation for motion)
• Nutrition (Balanced diets, Weight management)

During the project weeks 20 students from Finland, Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia will gather their ideas on the topic and discuss possible solutions and suitable means to get the message for wellbeing thru to their peers in five multidisciplinary and multinational groups. Students are encouraged by a coach (teacher) to investigate the theme further and test the possible solutions in the hosting college. These learning activities are also the place where the media students get to test their entrepreneurial skills on using analyzed material to build something new. Their way of working is similar to gamegams. Once the students have formed their idea their media-consultant (5 students from Helsinki Vocational College per each project week) is there to make it real/do a prototype of a game that can then be developed further.

This layout is based on problem and project based learning. Instead of using a rigid lesson plan that directs a learner down a specific path of learning outcomes or objectives, project based learning allows in depth investigation of a topic worth learning more about. The methodology of problem based learning asks for seeing the interlinks of creativity and research competences but also offers a chance for an interplay between sustainability and entrepreneurship.

As an outcome of this project participating organizations will receive concrete tools to improve wellbeing of students and work welfare of staff members. Main impact factors for students are improvement in their life management skills and health. This will reduce days of absence and same time improve studying skills. Better life management skills and healthier lifestyle will help students in their studies and there will be a big impact for succeeding to graduate in time. Participating organisations will have positive impact in their economy when students have better probability to graduate in time and have smaller odds to drop their studies because of life management problems or health issues.

Improved life management skills and wellbeing will also have longer impact in future work careers of students. Healthier work career will reduce days of sick leave and improve efficiency at work. Therefore also employer organisations will have positive impact when participating organisations will produce healthier employees in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 94186 Eur

Project Coordinator

Helsingin kaupunki & Country: FI

Project Partners

• Instituto de Educación Secundaria N º 1 de Gijón
• Stichting Nordwin College
• Srednja sola za farmacijo, kozmetiko in zdravstvo