SPORTS AND HEALTHY FOOD FOR INCLUSION Erasmus Project

Project Title

SPORTS AND HEALTHY FOOD FOR INCLUSION

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: Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

In the current situation all over the world there is significant evidence that there are serious problems of integration, social inclusion and obesity between young people.

Sport is an important integration and educational tool for promoting social inclusion, culture understanding, human rights and competitiveness between young people in local societies.

We strongly believe that sport as a common language can be used to integrate in the society and to promote together with education the values of tolerance, freedom, fair play, respect and many more. Sport is useful for breaking, promoting mutual understanding and inter-cultural dialogue and facilitating the process of social inclusion.

The schools represent a perfect learning environment for young people to promote health and integration, this project wanted to be an answer to their needs in the European society.

The objectives of the project are:

· Turn our schools into an environment that promotes health and wellbeing to guarantee inclusion through easy healthy options.

· Develop initiatives and offer options for physical activity in leisure time to promote physical activity among young students

as a healthy tool for social inclusion.

· Increase the routine of healthy food and enhance interest for physical activity in and out of schools.

· Inform and train students to be protagonists in the setting up of their correct lifestyle.

· Promote healthy diet by helping students to enjoy different tastes and different healthy foods.

· Increase the students’ concentration levels throughout the school day thanks to a healthy nutrition balanced with physical

activity.

· Improve skills in foreign languages, mainly English

· Motivate to learn to learn & lifelong learning

· Enhance inclusion and social cohesion

· Promote cooperation in European schools in order to exchange good practices to promote physical activity and healthy diet for

students at school and outside school in their everyday life

. Develop and collect materials for teacher training courses using physical activities and healthy food as inclusion tools

We are dealing with an innovating project since:

1. We are presenting our students as the real protagonists in the configuration of their life, since it is the only way they will adopt a lasting commitment for an active healthy lifestyle.

2. The project fosters a stimulating atmosphere for autonomous learning and responsibility.

3. Creativity is a must for each student during the project activities.

4. Our project promotes collaboration between teachers and students, families and school.

5. It also encourages students to be more responsible.

6. Different members of the community become involved in the process: teachers, students, families, staff in general.

All partners agree with the idea that the “sports and healthy food” enable us to enhance the achievement of traditional learning/teaching aims that have the consequence of better social inclusion and empower young people to manage properly their own life.

All partners are going to be involved in all the steps of the project and all of them are going to do pilot activities at local and international level. All partners are going to collaborate in monitoring, evaluating and disseminating the results.

During the two years’ project and after it, these are the expected outcomes:

For students:

Increase of healthy commitments.

Enhance of social inclusion

Better eating habits

Increase of awareness and capacity to manage a healthy diet

Increase in the practice of physical activity in their free time

Improvement of the level of physical activity and healthy food in our schools.

A better knowledge of healthy ingredients, serving sizes and cooking methods by comparing our countries different customs.

Decrease of consumption of sweetened beverages and processed food in our school canteens and vending machines

Improvement of foreign languages skills.

Good practices to communicate in an international environment

Improvement in coding and developing apps for specific goals (ex. To calculate calories consumption)

An international module about communication, values, traditions and culture of the participating countries in order to foster understanding, agree on common values will be shared during the project activities.

The students will benefit from the use of different learning/teaching methodologies, improvement of their interests and skills in sports and healthy food. At the same time in scientific subjects, improvement of their adaptability to a new environment with different habits, traditions and language, improvement of problem solving capacity, creativity skills and critical thinking.

For teachers and schools:

-lesson plans

-good practices tested at international level

– enhancement of European dimension in the teaching/learning process

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 97225 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stichting Voortgezet Onderwijs Regio Schijndel & Country: NL

Project Partners

• Copley Academy
• ISTITUTO DI ISTRUZIONE SUPERIORE GALILEO GALILEI
• IES David Bujan
• Srednja sola Izola – Scuola media Isola