We choose Health Erasmus Project

Project Title

We choose Health

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Natural sciences

Project Summary

“We choose Health” is a partnership Erasmus+ K229 of 5 schools from Italy, Romania, Turkey Greece and Bulgaria who have developed a common project that responds to the common needs of the five schools: the necessity of awareness of the importance of preserving health through healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle for young pupils. It supports the European plan (2015-2020) for healthy nutrition and therefore reduces obesity in children and adolescents, the micronutrient deficit in removing unhealthy eating habits.
The project is made for 2 years, during which a lot of events take place in the school, in local community and abroad (245 persons).
The aim of the project is a theme that concerns all European schools therefore the project’s activities will be carried out in mixed teams of pupils and teachers from 5 countries.
We will also treat the importance of physical movement, plant protection (by planting, sowing and caring) alongside foreign language communication activities, improving IT knowledge by developing products 3D, producing films, initiating 3 eTwinning projects with others schools from Europe, to continue the similar project’s topics.
Objectives:
– students’ education to a healthy food, reducing the products consumption that cause obesity and other diseases with 40 – 50%, focused attention on a traditional cuisine; in school will be creating the Health Education Lab for project’s activities and will last at least 2 years after the project ends;
– education for Plant protection as a vital life component, understanding of the importance of plant organically cultivated in school yard or out of it, through activities involving 80% of target group;
– to strengthen foreign language and communication skills of pupils from the target group and teachers by participating in 5 LTTAs and 1 International Seminar and by setting up mixed student groups to produce the project’s final product
– to create networks through joint projects in eTwinning between our schools, by working together on same activities now and in others future projects, to exchange good practice examples about the daily school life, school teaching methods, school management and others.
Target groups
The main group consists of pupils aged 9-14. Other categories of people involved in the project are teachers, parents, members of local community, local authorities and NGOs.
Project’s products made by partnership’s team-works: Logo, posters, calendars, movies 3D “Celebration of World Health Day 2020”, brochures (“Seeding and planting”, “Traditional dishes and sport”, “Computer games can prevent obesity”, “Become ETwinner”), Project’s E-magazine, Webpage, Blog, Facebook, eTwinning accounts and DVD.
Subjects to address will be included in schools’ curricula, as science, sports, informatics, foreign languages, civic education, arts, art crafts, music, dancing class
Activities and methodology
Curricular and extracurricular activities in school, local community and abroad (International seminar, exhibitions, Celebrations and workshops, etc)
There will be 6 LTTA when 245 persons (182 pupils and 63 teachers) will benefit of this project mobilities.
We will involve in project activities pupils, teachers, pupil’s families, local authorities and communities members and NGOs.
Results and Impact
The benefits of the project will be recorded individually, through the school, the partnership, the local community (authorities, NGOs);
– students will become aware of the importance of maintaining health through the type of food, sports and lifestyle, combining computer and physical activities, team up with foreign students with whom they will communicate in foreign languages, learn to behave democratically, tolerant and non-discriminatory, building friends that will continue after the project ends. Students will also improve their IT skills, project management (these will be involved in all stages of the project – preparation, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, dissemination and tracking) and through direct participation in the three eTwinning projects that this project generates.
Project staff will improve ICT skills, languages, about European projects. Local community, authorities and NGO will play an important role in this partnership by supporting project activities in school (meetings, seminars, workshops) and outside school through advertising and dissemination activities.
Dissemination and follow-up
We will provide long-term information in Erasmus+ Dissemination Platform, Mobility tools, eTwinning platform, Website, blog, Facebook, movies, brochures, reports to scholastic inspectorate, National Agencies, mayoralty, mass media.
Project’s Sustainability Plan foresees that at least 15 schools in local communities should be directly informed about the project and invited to school to participate in information sessions organized by project staff.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 159588 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scuola Secondaria di 1°Grado “Mastro Giorgio-Nelli” & Country: IT

Project Partners

• SCOALA GIMNAZIALA MARIA ROSETTI
• SULTANTEPE ORTAOKULU
• Primary School “Petko R.Slaveykov”
• 9th Primary School of Mytilini