SMART WELLNESS. Healthy Youth through digital technology, science and entrepreneurial culture. Erasmus Project

Project Title

SMART WELLNESS. Healthy Youth through digital technology, science and entrepreneurial culture.

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Gender equality / equal opportunities; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“Smart Wellness” has been a Strategic Partnership for Schools formed by the coordinating “IES Blas Infante” in Córdoba, south of Spain and the partner “Elementary School Pacov” in Pacov, in the south of the Czech Republic. Some 1000 students are educated in the Spanish school at Secondary Education, Baccalaureate and Professional Formation. Some 600 pupils from 6 to 15 are taught at the Czech institution.
Both schools are implementing the CLIL approach and have the same educative urge for enabling the European dimension. We have three main common educative priorities: inclusion, the acquisition of key competences and open and innovative practices in a digital era.
Smart wellness was chosen as a relevant and feasible common thread to learners, what has allowed us to achieve three objectives:
– Create Digital Applications to serve the improvement of a healthy lifestyle.
– Foster scientific vocations among female students.
– Develop entrepreneurial spirit in search of healthy eating habits and women empowerment.
41 students from each school aged between 12 and 17 years old have taken part in exchange mobilities including three special needs students. 8 members of staff from each school have also moved. Within the two schools, all the students have been direct participants in the project activities and more than 80% of teachers have joined the project at some time along the two years. Families, non teaching staff, feeding schools and many public and private institutions have made a priceless contribution to the success and enhancement of the project.
The partnership has been a launching ramp for our less able and disability students to show their competences. The most talented and gifted students have developed their abilities through challenging contents. Girls have been encouraged to scientific vocations. Plurilingual students have greatly benefitted becoming more competent linguistic participants.
The activities to implement the project include:
Technical preparation on digital tools, cooking and selling of healthy food, eating at chosen restaurants, families gatherings to share recipes, a set of lectures by scientist women and a fair on scientific women.
Some disseminating events and activities have been: participation in the June Entrepreneurs Fair, creation of a webpage with information about the meetings, activities, outputs and diffusion.
These are the main results:
-Two Apps for healthy restaurants which consider special dietary needs made by each school. They can be used by visitors and locals interested in eating in places that care for these requirements.
-A common “Smart Recipes” cookery book. It adapts traditional recipes from the two countries to different dietary options related to low calorie diets, allergies and intolerances, personal choices as vegan and vegetarian options and religions options such as Halal and Kosher. We have sold it within the schools communities and cooked recipes.
-Two Exhibitions and two “Smart Trees” about scientific women made by each school according their technical skills.
-A Set of Lectures on STEM Women around the 11th of February to foster the interest of our pupils and especially of our girls on scientific subjects and to overcome the gender gap in science.
-A Fair about Scientific Women made by all the 20 classes where each class prepared a stand and theatre performances to disseminate their women. Other students received the information and played a Kahoot game to check the understanding and voted for their favourite woman scientist.
The project was awarded with the Scientix STEM Discovery Week 2018 and took part in the 23rd Science Projects Workshop in the Future Classroom in Brussels. It was also a runner up in the 3rd Edition of the Regional Contest “Vida Sana”. We have also taken part in Europe Code Week 2018. We disseminated our project at the teachers centre as well.
This partnership has fostered digital skills development, awareness towards scientific vocations, an improvement in creativity and entrepreneurial spirit and further knowledge about healthy eating and dietary needs.
We expect fewer conflicts related to new technologies and cyber bullying. A bigger interest in scientific vocations especially among our young girls is already seen. Now more creative and entrepreneurial future adults are being educated in our institutions. We have clearly created a bigger awareness and focus towards our disabled and poor school performance students. Many local restaurants have been made aware of special dietary needs. The productions are being used after the project: the restaurants apps can be used by any tourist and local people, the “Smart Recipes” book is being used by the two schools, families are enjoying healthy meals, anybody can download it from the project webpage and cook the recipes. The STEM women exhibitions are going to be used again this school year at our schools and used by other different schools.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 51532,62 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES BLAS INFANTE & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Zakladni skola Pacov