Recipes for a healthy life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Recipes for a 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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

In a world becoming more and more globalised, the economic, environmental and social stakes are a real concern for the states, as well as for the citizens, in order to initiate the transition towards sustainable development. This end goal for Humanity is influenced by the everyday action of food consumption and everyone must be made aware of it.
This consumption has consequences on physical and mental wellbeing, on producers’ economic viability, on the sustainable management of the resources and the respect for landscapes and grounds. This project “Recipes for a Healthy Life” is aimed at highlighting some everyday foodstuffs within the scope of the globalisation process of the consumption in our society. It will make the pupils aware of the products’ origins, the ways they are cultivated, their carbon impact, their environmental effects and their health benefits. The pupils will be introduced to the notions of a local, supportive, ethic, fair and durable economy. They will hopefully be able to use these concepts in their own homes with ease.

The European Union project was built on the idea of a common market. Nowadays, it has a greater global significance due to the inclusion of environmental issues. This union of European nations, which is unique in the world, has to be reinforced amongst the younger generation who are the future European citizens. They have to be informed of the way the Union works and they have to comprehend its diversity. This project wants to promote the EU motto: “United” around common and shared issues and “in diversity” thanks to the respect of the cultural, economical and social differences. The aim is not to throw a moralistic judgement on everyone’s consumption habits, but to make people aware that their eco-responsible habits have a deep impact on themselves and on the Earth.

To finish with, this project aims to reinforce the existing links between the two schools which are partners in this project. This project concerns two schools: André Tiraqueau Middle High-School in Fontenay-le-Comte in France (11-to-15-year-old pupils), in collaboration with Bourron-Macé primary school (6-to-10 year-old pupils), and Mary Curie primary school in Poland (6-to-15-year-old pupils). These two schools have already been involved in many European projects since 2011 and they are very concerned about the durability of their partnership. This new project is built on the vertical and horizontal involvement of a larger public which is very far from cultural, international and linguistic projects. In each school, a strong partnership is established between the eldest and the youngest either in the middle high school or in the primary school. The French partner includes the pupils from general classes who are already conscious of the European issues, some pupils from adapted professional education (SEGPA) and some pupils with cognitive disabilities (ULIS). The project gathers as a whole about 20 teachers and 130 pupils amongst which 50 are affected by the mobilities. The two partners are located in urban zones with modest incomes and often very detatched from cultural and European issues, the two French schools (middle high school and primary school) are located in a high-priority education network (REP). The horizontal and vertical involvement highlights the pupils’ skills, includes the most fragile who have special needs and widens the range of the pupils involved in European projects. The mobility between the partners is integral within the partnership. It is an occasion for the pupils to highlight the activities they have undertaken on the topic: meeting with professionals, creation of window box and vegetable gardens, sport contests, the production of a book of recipes which includes food information, agro-ecological data, economic information, foodstuffs and a travelling exhibition to disseminate the results of the project. Roll-up posters will be made in a universal language based on graphics and digital language.

This project does not only aim at developing individual eco-responsible habits that the pupils could spread in their homes, but also to make a larger public aware of the issues studied in the project. Thus, it encourages a collective awareness. The largest dissemination is planned. The schools involved in the project will highlight the key moments of the project as well as the main productions. The transnational mobilities will be particularly highlighted. The local schools and the local surroundings will be invited to an exhibition created from the meetings and the different themes the pupils will have worked on and thought about.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 35949 Eur

Project Coordinator

Collège André Tiraqueau & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 8 z Oddzialami Dwujezycznymi im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie