Towards a Healthy and Responsible Adulthood Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards a Healthy and Responsible Adulthood

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 school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The partners of this project were two schools of Secondary Education located in Romania and Turkey, which had not previous experience on working with special needs students, and Gloria Fuertes Special Education School located in Spain that had previous experience on working with local mainstream schools and European ones. The students involved in the project were from: Romania, 20 students 15-17 years old at 9th – 10th grade; Turkey, 20 students 16-17 years old at 10th -11th grades; Spain, 20 students 16-20 years old , 10 studied Secondary Education and 10 Vocational Training. All the Spanish pupils had intellectual disability. The teachers involved in the project had observed that our young students needed to be supported due to their lack of opportunities for international interaction and also needed to learn to take care of themselves and be responsible for their conduct on their way to full adulthood. For Romanian and Turkish pupils this project has been a good tool to promote inclusion.
Through this project we have given pupils the opportunity to develop the awareness of the European dimension, by working collaboratively on a healthy lifestyle and learning responsibility to themselves and to others. There has been an emphasis on learning and practicing the different aspects needed to reach a good physical and emotional health; acquiring adequate behavior in relation to food habits, the practice of physical activity, hygiene and personal care, disease prevention, drug abuse, leisure activities, affective sexual health and responsible use of ICT technologies.
The general objectives were: to communicate with boys and girls from other countries; to work on and share the contents of healthy lifestyle and learning responsibility to themselves and to others; to get to know young people from other countries and to visit some of these countries; to reinforce social inclusion and to improve the self-esteem and social skills of the students.
The project has encouraged staff and pupils to develop their own ICT skills, which has been necessary to share information with partner schools and it has supported team building and cooperation skills for the people involved. Also there has been an improvement in the use of the English language, the communication language for the project. The contents of the project have developed transversal skills related to various areas of the curriculum and has reinforced various key competences: communication in mother and foreign languages, science, digital, learning to learn, social and civic entrepreneurship and sense of initiative.
This project has emphasized social inclusion and cohesive society which has helped students without disability to increase their ability to address the needs of those at a disadvantage.
We have worked on the same topics during the two years of the project and we have done the same type of activities adapted to the characteristic of the students. The methodology has been: find out what they know, explain their behavior for each content block, know the appropriate behavior and share it with the project partners and implement positive measures in their lifestyles.
Pupils exchange has been very important in this project to put in practice inclusion aims. The interaction between students with and without special needs has been very important to gain awareness and to know how to conduct themselves in different situations.
The results of the project are hosted on a blog containing power-point presentations of the schools, the students and the topics we have worked with , texts, activities, information of the exchanges, evaluation documents: surveys, questionnaires; evaluation by the students and teachers about the degree of satisfaction of the project.
The impact on teachers and schools has been: increased skills for using clues that help in inclusive practices; improved competences of cooperation between different types of schools and strengthened European cooperation. For pupils: less discrimination for students with specials needs, improved abilities of cooperative learning and an increased in their awareness of European citizenship.
Thanks to this project, the students have worked on healthy habits and improve some of them, they have interacted with students from other countries and they have realised that the characteristics of a healthy life style are the same in the three participating countries and therefore they could be apply to other contexts. They have also experienced how similar their interests are, regardless of their country of origin. This project has given the students knowledge and strategies to achieve a better adult life.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 83320 Eur

Project Coordinator

COLEGIO PUBLICO DE EDUCACION ESPECIAL GLORIA FUERTES & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Liceul Teoretic Constantin Serban
• CELAL SONMEZ SPOR LISESI