Young European in Sports : for a more active, healthy and social life Erasmus Project

Project Title

Young European in Sports : for a more active, healthy and social life

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 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Teaching and learning of foreign languages; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

“Sport has changed my life!” This was the sentence uttered by one of the teachers involved in the project. We often hear that sport, together with a balanced diet, contributes to good health and well-being. We are aware of these frequently-heard advertising slogans that encourage us to “eat better” and “move”; but what is the reality behind it? If the conditions that are necessary to physical practice and sports are not validated in some way, these slogans are useless. At the European Sports Week in September 2015, a huge problem was discussed: the lack of physical activity among young people. About 6 out of 10 European teenagers do not engage in any regular physical activity and, according to World Obesity, the number of overweight children has been increasing in recent decades. This situation has serious consequences for our students because they are less and less prepared to face the challenges of their future lives. That is why a group of 7 European teachers have decided to set themselves the ambitious goal of recreating the will for a group of 42 French and Spanish students aged 15 to 18 to practise sports and of making them realise the importance, both on a personal and a society level, of a healthy lifestyle.
This project denotes positivism itself in its acronym : YES! Young Europeans in Sports. The challenges faced by this project are part of the 2020 European framework, more particularly concerning the promotion of a healthy lifestyle. Our goals for the students were straightforward : practising physical activity, discovering the ground rules for a healthy and varied diet and learning good stress management. We have also developed the skills listed in the students’ Europass, such as their self-confidence, their social openness and their solidarity, their European citizenship, their use of information technology, and their mastery of foreign languages. It is a harmonious and holistic vision of the individual we defend, where the student is an actor and responsible for his or her health in the broadest sense.
Another important aspect of the project was of course to increase the possibilities for the future through the intensive use and practice of foreign languages, the intelligent use of new technologies and the stimulation of their ambition (to believe in them). The challenges of the project “YES! are part of the European framework for 2020, in particular with regard to the strategy “together for health”, convinced that the “YES! was also beneficial for the educational teams and other partners involved in this project, such as the parents and the rest of the educational community, which allowed us to change values, techniques and pedagogical materials that were instructive in our work and will be in our future life. In order to achieve these objectives, we carry out a series of varied and attractive activities that we share between the two countries: solidarity races, cycling trips, testimonies from top-level sportsmen and women, culinary workshops, a stage on the road to Santiago, regular sophrology and outdoors yoga sessions, climbing, computer workshops, dance, nutrition, canoeing, rugby, basketball, gymkhana, talks with former Erasmus students… Thanks to these activities, the participants of the project “YES! have learned to manage their stress, learn new sports and learn about the varieties of healthy food.
The Erasmus Club “YES” “allowed us to prepare the mobilities and to reflect on our problems when it comes to exercise, for this reason we proposed the practice of innovative sports activities. (Goalball, Korfball, climbing, Olympic wrestling, paddle, aquagym etc…)
All this work was carried out in agreement with the French partners and other schools. We have made the students take ownership of the project and become Ambassadors and they are committed to take care of themselves and being active. All this with the aim of creating a spirit of teamwork and association which, as we can see, has created bonds of friendship among the students that will last beyond the project. We were very conscious of the incredible opportunity that was offered to us to obtain such funding to carry out this program me; we have made a broadcast at all levels both in papers, radio and television. We have used the Etwinning platform to work both establishments and publish our results on the Twinspace, which is a great way of promoting all the work done throughout the project YES! that will live on thanks some other projects to come.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 61250 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE GEN TECHNOLOGIQUE FELIX FAURE & Country: FR

Project Partners

• BIP Kreativitätsgymnasium
• Instituto de enseñanza secundaria Valle Inclán