Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth

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 youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

“Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth” was a project in the frame of “Erasmus+” Programme Key Action 2. The main objective of the project was to promote a healthy lifestyle among youth off all ages. The project was implemented in the period from March 2017 to December 2018, in three European countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland. The project aimed to implement in different youth organizations innovative methods of non-formal education about health awareness. The result of the implemented methods will be a change of the attitudes of young people to more healthy and expanding their consciousness of health promotion. The project was implemented by the Health Related Organization for Promotion and Prevention “HOPP” from Opole, in partnership with: Bulgarian Sports Development Association from Sofia and Social Policy and Action Organization from Nicosia. The implementation preceded by statistical analysis conducted among project’s participants, which consequently became a base for developed publication. Tools for achieving these goals were series of international meetings, as well as pilot training course, which was attended by youth workers. The result of these activities was the innovative, based on a modular system, non-formal method of working with youth, which was implemented in different organizations and institutions in the project countries. The method was implemented through Non formal Education Centers – “NEC”, managed by partner organizations. Their main task is to disseminate of developed results among local youth organizations. The established method was fully described in details in the project’s publication and distributed in European institutions. For the widest possible dissemination the Method was settled in the form of an interactive and international youth Portal. Closing action of the project were Open Days presenting the results of a strategic partnership.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 77035 Eur

Project Coordinator

Stowarzyszenie Promocji Zdrowia i Profilaktyki “HOPP” & Country: PL

Project Partners

• ASOCIACIA ZA RAZVITIE NA BULGARSKIA SPORT
• SOCIAL POLICY AND ACTION ORGANIZATION