OUR HEALTH IN OUR HANDS Erasmus Project

Project Title

OUR HEALTH IN OUR HANDS

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: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Health and wellbeing; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning

Project Summary

The OUR HEALTH IN OUR HANDS project was drafted by teachers of the Primary School in Grzechynia in cooperation with teachers from schools in Aravete (Estonia), Volos (Greece) and Sanluri (Italy).
The main goal of the project is to shapethe students’ pro-health and pro-ecological attitudes and make them aware of the role that everyone has to fulfill in the development of living conditions in health and in a clean environment. The project will result in the students’ awareness of how they influence their quality of life. They will become aware of the preservation of a clean, natural environment.They will also have a positive impact on other people’s behaviourin their environment, and in the future, they will be citizens aware of their influence on creating the conditions in which they want to live. A good education is an opportunity for students to develop and participate effectively in the culturally diverse society of a common Europe, and the implementation of the project will affect the development of basic skills and key competencies.
The project activities will also include elements of intercultural and intergenerational education as well as social and educational values of European cultural heritage. The implementation of the project will also strengthen the status of teaching professions. The project there will be an increase in knowledge and skills of participants in the field for health and nature protection, their personal and professional development, improvement of language skills and ICT, increased tolerance for cultural diversity and a sense of satisfaction with the implementation of an ambitious task.
The project partners represent various the climate areas of Europe, which will allow to determine differences in eating habits resulting from climatic conditions and to look for similarities resulting from universal laws of nature. Partner schools are located in diverse natural areas which will give, the participants of the project,the opportunity to compare the scope of activities that help to maintain an unpolluted environment.
Students will learn about traditional recipes and methods of food production free from chemical additives, and how local communities care about their natural environment and what actions prevent the contamination of nature.
The project is planned for 22 months.
The project is dedicated to pupils aged from 12 to 15.
From each school will be involved in it 18 pupils and 6 teachers. All of students and teachers of partner schools will be involved indirectly. Students’ families and local societies will also participate in the project to a certain extent.
As part of the project, there will be five-day student exchanges. The program of each meeting will have its motto: “Secrets of the Mediterranean diet” – October 2019 in Greece, “With traditions to the future” – May 2020 in Estonia, “To be healthy” – October 2020 in Poland and “Our common goal” – April 2021 in Italy.
Interesting programs of activities were prepared for the duration of students’ stay in partner schools. Culinary workshops will take place, and the students will prepare dishes according to traditional recipes collected from older people. Educational trips, among other things, to small establishments producing food according to old recipes will help them to understand the importance of the quality of food products. There will be discussions, integration events, cultural presentations, games, and sports.The students will be accommodated in the family homes of their peers which will introduce them to the customs and traditions of the region. Simultaneously, virtual cooperation will be carried out via the eTwinning community. Its tools will allow cooperation before and between the trips. Thanks to the platform, participants will exchange information, conduct discussions, collect course materials and document the effects of their work. The material outcome will be the paper and digital publication ‘Kitchens of our great-grandparents’ containing culinary recipes tested on the workshops and photos of ready-made dishes.
The coordinators will meet twice for the good implementation of the project. The first meeting, at the beginning of the project, will be devoted to the final agreement of the schedules, scope of responsibilities, procedures, monitoring, studying the effects and the project’s evaluation and second will focus on the summary and plans for further cooperation.
The lessons learned from observing good practices in the partner schools, especially in the methodological or organizational field, will be used by the teachers in their daily work. Besides, the school, as an institution, will strengthen its image in the local community. All the experience acquired by the teachers will serve them in further years for successive education for health and a clean environment.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 103660 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa w Grzechyni & Country: PL

Project Partners

• 5o GYMNASIO VOLOU
• ISTITUTO PARITARIO DI ISTRUZIONE PRIMARIA E SECONDARIA DI I E II GRADO San Giuseppe Calasanzio
• Aravete Keskkool