Realfooding Challenge Erasmus Project

Project Title

Realfooding Challenge

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: Health and wellbeing; Inclusion – equity; Cultural heritage/European Year of Cultural Heritage

Project Summary

As teachers, we are seeing year after year how our students consume processed products, such as bottled juices, fizzy drinks or sweets containing a huge amount of sugar and chemicals, as a daily basis. Such products are mostly contained in plastics, one of the greatest danger of our planet. They not only foster overweight and an unhealthy diet but their containers also pollute the environment and the food chain that we depend on. This is also a problem for The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which defend, among others, Good Health and Well- Being (Goal 3), Responsible Consumption and Production (Goal 12) and Climate Action (Goal 13). Bearing all these problems in mind, these European schools from Poland, Portugal, Latvia, Finland and Spain have joined together to fight against obesity, plastics, processed food and the destruction of environment supporting a RealFooding diet. Taking advantage of the fact that two of the participating countries are from Southern Europe, we want to show our partners about Mediterranean diet as European intangible Cultural heritage, leading to a healthier diet of all our communities. The website www.mediterraneamos.es will be a very useful tool for this matter.

Our objectives are connected to having European citizens with healthy diets, dropping little by little the use of contaminating recipients included in most processed food and who are conscious of the importance of preserving Nature as our goods are grown there. Last but not least, sports will be a key element in our project because if we do not practice sports we are exposed to suffer from health problems.

Students participating in the project will be between 14 – 16 years old and this Erasmus + Ka229 will benefit around 720 youngsters, 63 with fewer opportunities and 44 teachers. Considering the Spanish school and do to the importance of inclusion, they will send a student diagnosed from autism to one of the mobilities.

In general, activities will be focused on making our students aware of the benefits of RealFooding in their health, Mediterranean diet, so they will go from analyzing sugar contained in products, learning how to read food labels and preparing traditional dishes with their grandparents. Most activities will be done using new apps fostering our students digital competences and with inclusive and cooperative methodologies. They will also practice sports during each mobility as this practice is linked to a healthy life. During mobilities, students will work in international groups.

The results we are willing to achieve is that our students will enhance competences like interpersonal, intercultural and social skills, and they will also treasure European citizenship, autonomy and personal initiative. The importance of learning to communicate as a way of establishing links with others is something they will achieve, they will also approach other European cultures, one of the most important matters of our project.

Regarding teachers, we will put in common everyday difficulties and a shared reality, discussing in our meetings to improve our practice, sharing opinions and points of view, methodologies, curriculums and ICT tools in education. Furthermore, We will improve our ICT competences, essential for our teaching practice and our linguistic competences.

Dissemination will be an essential matter in our project, showing all the activities that we are carrying out through myTwinspace, social networks and schools’ and City Councils websites. This way, we will be able to reach a great number of members of our communities who will learn about not only RealFooding and the dangers of processed food for our health, but also will feel motivated towards having a healthy lifestyle and taking care of the environment.

Students and teachers will build close links, we will become better European citizens, improving our values and our European citizenship. In addition, hosting families will also benefit from their encounter as they will learn from the cultures, languages and traditions of the students who will be staying in their house.

In relation to longer term benefits, students and teachers will have friends and colleagues around Europe not only to keep in touch but also to share professional issues and educational matters. Regular workshops will take place where students who have participated in the project will inform and train their school partners about RealFooding and all the issues developed in it.
We will keep all the information, products and outcomes of our project in the tag “Materials” in myTwinspace for future activities related to: healthy menus, processed foods, inclusive methodologies, applications, evaluation tools and rules of Alternative sports.
All in all, this project having in mind a healthier way of life, better habits and diet, will have a great impact in our educational community, in our personal lives and will open a door to future European projects in the participant schools.

Project Website

http://www.iesvirgendelrosario.com

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164908 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES Virgen del Rosario & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Pohjankartanon yläaste, Oulun kaupunki
• Escola Básica e Secundária de Moimenta da Beira
• Mazsalacas vidusskola
• Szkola Podstawowa im. Wspolnej Europy w Zalesiu Gornym