Physical Activity as a Key to Healthy life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Physical Activity as a Key to Healthy life

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: Creativity and culture; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The Project includes 5 schools from Italy, Spain, Poland, Slovenia and Turkey. The main motivation of the present project is to help pupils incorporate healthy habits and widen their vision about healthy lifestyles in the European community. Having a healthy lifestyle is connected with eating healthy, doing physical exercises, being in harmony with the nature, learning to deal with our emotions, promoting wellbeing, building healthy relationships and social support. Through the present project we approach and analyze the topic from all perspectives which were mentioned above.The partner schools have large numbers of pupils who refuse to take part in the PE classes and the amount of overweight pupils is increasing every year. Participants will develop healthy eating habits and learn how physical exercise influences our mental and psychological well-being. The project’s main aim is to develop awareness about different EU healthy lifestyles among 125 students from 5 schools during 24 months of project. In order to reach the main aim we set the following objectives:to widen participants’ knowledge and skills connected with having healthy and balanced diet -to encourage participants to lead a healthy lifestyle -to offer participants possibilities for learning in a multicultural environment -to enhance the international exchange of good practices The direct beneficiaries of our project will be 175 participants (125 students, 50 teachers). At the partnership level, we will involve 250 students (12-14 years old), 80 teachers, and approximately 200 local participants (parents, school staff, representatives of the local communities, stakeholders, guests, etc.). The common working language is English.The planned activities will give participants the opportunity to explore together the nature surrounding them, the influence of their actions on the environment and how nature affects their mental and physical health. Sport will be used as a way to communicate health information to pupils, but also to help in human relationships and team building. By organising friendly competitions, goal setting and team climate will be supported. The project clubs, international meetings face to face and the eTwinning project will provide pupils with the opportunity to develop friendship with one another. International friendship will be the source of inspiration, role models, opportunities for growth and personal development. Activities related to the topic developed during the international meetings will be introduced by each partner in their school as activities organized at the project clubs and also integrated with teaching. The activities will be in reation to the local context of each school. Pupils will be engaged in interactive activities that will enhance their ability to summarize the information, creativity, practical knowledge, critical thinking and IT competences, and healthy habits. The activities will encourage them to be more active by joining sport competitions, friendly team sports, eco-sports. Pupils’ connection with the environment will be promoted also by activities that will be organized outdoors. The activities’ aim is to show pupils that education is also possible outside school. There are study visits,trips, as well as meetings with guest speakers from different organizations that encourage having a healthy lifestyle. The project activities use the learning by doing process which will develop team work, cooperation and social cohesion. As a result of this project ,all participants and schools will broaden their idea of having a healthy lifestyle in different European countries and improve the quality of Learning. This experience will contribute in the longterm because it supports understanding the importance and impact that the lifestyle has on people, what should to be done in order to be healthy and active. The activities increase self-awareness and the idea that every person is responsible for a healthy lifestyle.The activities will help them to be active by joining sport competitions, eco-sports. Pupils’ connection with the environment will be promoted by activities that will be organized outdoors. The activities’ aim is to show pupils that education is also possible outside school. There are planned study visits as well as meetings with guest speakers from different organizations that encourage having a healthy lifestyle. The activities use the learning by doing process which will develop team work, cooperation, sense of belonging and social cohesion. As a result of this project all participants and schools will realize of having a healthy lifestyle in Europe and improve the quality of the educational process. This experience will contribute in the long-term because it supports understanding the importance that lifestyle has on people and how to be healthy and active. The activities will increase self-awareness and the idea that each person is responsible for a healthy lifestyle

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 145970 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO ” GIOVANNI XXIII-COLONNA” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ALI HAYDAR ERSOY ORTAOKULU
• IES ARXIDUC LLUIS SALVADOR
• Osnovna šola Boštanj
• Zespol Szkolno-Przedszkolny w Zablociu