Project description

Objectives

The partnership aims to enhance participants’ awareness on different healthy lifestyles across Europe, from 3 schools over a period of 2 years. The consortium have agreed on following objectives to achieve the main project aim:

-to empower participants’ skills and knowledge so as to adopt a balanced healthy lifestyle

-to foster quality and multidimensional improvements in participants’ lifestyle

-to create the space for participants to learn in a multicultural environment

-to exchange good practices at international level.

- to develop intercultural awareness and sense of identity

The objectives are in line with selected priorities and reflect the topics of the

LTTAs: Happier Lifestyle tips, Healthy eating habits, Healthy body&mind harmony, Nature based learning. We wish to make students turn to genuine natural landscapes as people are more and more disconnected from the earth and beauty of the natural world.

Students will have the opportunity to understand the people-nature connection, explore the surrounding nature, explore and conclude on the impact of human activities upon environment, the way nature affects our health.

We seek to provide a meaningful way to communicate health-related information to participants, strengthen human relationships and establish effective teambuilding spirit, friendly competitions that tackle project topic from various angles, supported

through team cohesion and proactive lifestyle.

The management framework will produce tangible and intangible results. Project concrete results include materials like: project

logo, website, eTwinning space, posters, booklet, brochure, themed videos and presentations, exhibitions, seminar, quiz, outdoor games, sport competition, DVD, assessment and feedback forms, evaluation tools, dissemination materials, evaluation reports, leaflets.

Expected intangible results include: knowledge, attitudes, experiences, soft and hard skills.

Students will be direct beneficiaries of the practical activities, share and confront ideas to create the high quality project results.

The project will use non-formal learning methods, meant to mitigate the cooperation process amongst students who come into

contact with different lifestyles.

The non-formal education tools employed will be group work, discussions, role plays, team-building, forum theatre, group drawings etc.

The project fosters fundamental values at European level, communication, digital skills, team work, critical thinking, creativity and wellbeing. LTTAs will comprise cultural activities to promote diversity and cultural expression, workshops will be chaired by external specialists, speakers. The cross-curricular format of activities will develop students’ knowledge, learning process will be more engaging, purposeful and challenging.

Participants will make interdisciplinary connections, resort to knowledge in various subjects (Languages, Literature, Geography,Biology, PE, ICT) and relate them to their daily life.

Target groups

Project target group is represented by students aged 11-15, direct beneficiaries of activities organised within project and of expected results. 2 partner schools will select 32 people (24 students, 8 teachers) and coordinating school 16 people (12 students, 4 teachers) to take part in face to face transnational activities (LTTA2, LTTA3, LTTA5) 48 people at partnership level. LTTA1 and LTTA4 are virtual meetings that there will be 45 students (15/partner school/virtual activity LTTA4) and 18 teachers (3/partner school/virtual activities LTTA1 and LTTA4).

The number of participants at activities included on project agenda is estimated around 250: teachers, students, local community members (school staff, parents, representatives, guest specialists, stakeholders).Partners will select key persons to take over the tasks of project management and implementation. The team will cooperate to successfully achieve established project goals and activities, each person will be assigned clear duties. Management team and contact persons will promote the project at organisational level, launch a call to form project teams who will implement the project at school level. A list with application criteria will be drawn up and displayed on schools’ info boards, distributed online on the school websites/Social media for interested people to apply. Selection criteria include: interest in project topic, motivation to participate, willingness to contribute to project activities, English language skills.

Applicants will write a motivational letter justifying the reason why they wish to join and expected contribution.

The board of selection for project team members and LTTAs participants will be made up of schools staff who do not directly take part in project but with wide experience in coordinating, running extracurricular projects.

Project clubs will be organised in schools, regular meetings with the working agenda planned at school in the organization of their school’s LTTA, create project materials, cultural programme and dissemination activities.

Students who take part in LTTAs and their families will be hosts for guest students, interact directly with them throughout the week and be supportive guides, provide ideas to organize the LTTA hosted by their school. The sense of belonging to a community will be fostered by means of project club which is to increase individual commitment to working towards a common goal in synergy with others. Participants will be motivated to work for a common purpose while boosting their hard and soft skills through international cooperation. Most students in the project team will take part in local activities while others will be involved in LTTAs. Parents will be asked to attend meetings with the project staff and dissemination sessions.

Teachers from different departments Biology, P.E., Geography, School counsellors and psychologists will join the team.

Motivation

The project represents the initiative of 3 partner schools in Poland, Croatia and Turkey. The core idea of this project is

represented by the need to encourage pupils

acknowledge the importance of leading healthier lifestyles, paying more

attention to diet and nutrition, consequences

upon the environment, taking up sports and connect with nature. Project

topic will be approached from various perspectives.

Partners’ expertise will operate to create a complex project carried

out by means of formal and non-formal

methodologies, a mix of practical and theoretical activities. The main topic is

comprised of sub-topics.

The Benefits

The core idea of this project is represented by the need to encourage pupils acknowledge the importance of leading healthier lifestyles, paying more attention to diet and nutrition, consequences upon the environment, taking up sports and connect with nature.

Project topic will be approached from various perspectives.

Partners’ expertise will operate to create a complex project carried out by means of formal and non-formal methodologies, a mix of practical and theoretical activities.

The main topic is comprised of sub-topics.

World Health Organisation draws attention to the spread of obesity amongst teenagers because of unbalanced nutrition and physical inactivity. The partner schools confront with students who refuse to attend PE classes, increasing number of overweight students, prevailing sedentary lifestyle caused by technology addiction and preference for unhealthy food.

Our mission as educators is to take action and prepare students for a healthy adulthood and lifelong development process. Children are at the core of society and their families will be included, local community representatives to respond to various community needs identified. Adolescence represents transition from childhood to adulthood and the period when behaviours and habits that last for a life time are shaped. Having this in mind, our main goal is the project provides good practices examples to promote healthy lasting life style amongst participants.

Common needs have been identified as a result of analysing partner schools’ development plan: desire to improve students’ lifestyle, strengthening the international dimension to school curriculum, enhance students’ motivation to take active role in activities promoting healthy life, highlighting social responsibility and environmentally friendly education.

In general, students manifest low interest in performing outdoor educational and recreational activities.

The project will function as an example of how to utilize schools’ resources, the creativity of a like-minded international team to set the basis of healthy lifestyle for students. Throughout the project, students will practise interactive learning by doing, engage in reflective learning activities, experience critical thinking while they harness each other’s competencies with European peers.

Thus, the objectives of Education and Training set by the EC for 2021, the values of Europe 2021 – promoting good health as health policy is important to Europe 2021's objectives for smart and inclusive growth are fully supported in the project.

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