Stay healhty. Enjoy live. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Stay healhty. Enjoy live.

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Health and wellbeing; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Because of our previous experience, we have detected that healthy habits in teenagers have been getting worse in the last years, especially in the sectors more underprivileged. Numerous studies, among which we highlight the one carried out by the Physical Activity, Fitness and Health (LIFE) group of the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) of Castellón and its DADOS project, conclude that unhealthy lifestyle habits negatively influence school performance. Our goal is to improve the lifestyle of adolescents to achieve not only an improvement in health but an improvement in academic results, with which it is related.

On the other hand, all the partners agree with the idea of starting or continuing with an internationalisation process with all the advantages that we can take from it. More specific, we agree that an exchange of good practises in the perfect way to achieve our goals. Guided by these two basic problems: the search for internationalization and the need for improving the healthy habits of our students is why we decided to try to launch a program of exchange of good practices. As we understand that the deterioration of young people’s health habits is a problem with a European dimension, we decided to work together because all of our schools have the same concern and that they had experience in working on some of the aspects we want to improve.

Through participation in this project, we first want to establish two main objectives:
1.-To get the greatest number of students, and particularly those in a more disadvantaged situation, acquire healthier physical, mental and social habits.

2.-To implement a program of healthy habits that allow problems to be detected early and to act in anticipation of school failure.

Improving healthy habits, especially extended in students with a disadvantaged situation, we hope to improve their academic results, reducing early school leaving. Of course, there are more factors to consider, but our goal is that the result of this project was a part of a wider project in each school to prevent early leaving and improvement of school results.

We have divided the project into 5 parts or topics, each with its specific activities:

1-. Outdoor activities for a better life.
2.-Fundamentals of a healthy diet.
3.-Sport’s impact on the quality of life.
4.-.Emotional health.
5.-Social integration through physical activity.

The final activity, a summary of all the work carried out, will be the elaboration of a guide of healthy habits with the common conclusions drawn from each of the five topics. This guide will be implemented in our schools as part of the educational projects. Each part will have activities to develop in each school., and will conclude with a meeting in each of the countries as a short-term exchange of pupils. We can summary them here saying that all of them will be linked with the topic worked before and they will conclude with the main activity in each mobility: discussion and debate about similarities and differences and common conclusions for the final activity described above. The activities carried out at schools previous of each meeting will involve several subjects at the same time, and the use of the search and analysis of information and active uses of technologies.

Because interaction between students is a fundamental part of the project, the age of students working with the same objective must be similar to make it easier and more productive. Our goal is to achieve a minimum of 50 students working directly in the activities of the project in each school. Just 20 of them will participate from each school in the 5 short-term exchange of pupils scheduled, 5 in each of the 4 travel abroad.

The development of the project has to be through multidisciplinary activities that involve several didactic departments. Thus, the departments of physical education, natural sciences, mathematics, technology, in addition to the necessary collaboration of the English language department to coordinate all aspects of the proper use of the common working language will participate directly in their preparation. This means at least 10 teachers from each partner, 2 from each of these departments will be directly involved in the preparation of activities and their implementation and evaluation. Also, given that the final objective is a transversal priority, the counselling department will have a fundamental role for the implementation of our goal so 1 member of this will be also a part of the project in each school.

The idea is that this result of the common work of all partners, based on shared experience, will be a document that is inserted into the Tutorial Action Plan in all partner schools, within our School Plan. The improvement of the healthy habits of our students, as a factor that limits inequalities and prevents school failure, will be one of the objectives of the Educational Project of our schools for the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 147346 Eur

Project Coordinator

IES HUARTE DE SAN JUAN & Country: ES

Project Partners

• I. osnovna sola Zalec
• Muhsin Yazicioglu Ortaokulu
• 2nd Peiramatiko Gymnasio Athinon
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Nicolae Coculescu”