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Well Nutrition For Our Future

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-UK01-KA229-079079
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 178,594 EUR

Well Nutrition For Our Future

Description

This project emerged from the idea of establishing good eating habits and well-nutrition structure for children. By learning and adopting healthy habits when young, the chance that such habits will be sustained into adulthood is greatly increased. Action Plan on Childhood Obesity aims to contribute to halting the rise in overweight and obesity in children and young people (0-18 years) by 2020. Childhood is an important period and schools clearly play a crucial role in this respect, with a responsibility in ensuring that children both understand the importance of good nutrition, and benefit from both. Studying nutrition on practice and finding solutions will help participants to understand well-nutrition in more general view, enabling them to gain experiences about nutrition facts, healthy meal, cultural differences in culinary, and sharing this cross-cultural knowledge as being a future European citizen.Objectives of this project are to create an environment for children surrounded with healthy food, learn facts about nutrition, nutrition in home practices, create awareness on the good and bad health, overweight, and obesity in social life, to improve intercultural awareness and sense of having healthy food, to acquire European values like acceptance, tolerance, non-discrimination, cultural diversity in their social and cultural development as future European citizens, to reflect solutions for bad nutrition habits for each participant and acknowledge possible cross-country solutions especially for disadvantaged ones, to promote the inclusion of targeted groups, to promote well nutrition as a basic human right, to involve students in practical activities to stimulate their integration into EU by transmitting the project trans-nationally and comparing different cultures across Europe. C1 – Nutrition Circle – Students prepare a questionnaire to choose a basket of nutritional sources for daily meals. They learn about proteins, carbohydrates and fats, collect concepts about nutrition (dictionary), share their results, compare posters, and discuss “good and bad” nutrition facts along with historical background about how their previous nutritional choices affected their life. C2 –Talking Fruits and Veggies – Students use actual vegetables and fruits (and other nutritional sources) to create good combinations of a daily nutritional circle previously created. They take photographs of these circles and create a newsletter. C3 – I-Cook; Video presentation of a cooking experience. Students learn to prepare a healthy snack from their historical and cultural background. This activity is filmed by each participant, and shared at the mobility meeting. Each participant search for healthy foods from their culture, in mobility meeting they visit a cultural restaurant.C4 – A Day in a Virtual Restaurant; Students create a weekly restaurant menu for kids in a printable brochure style. Interviews with family members, restaurant staff, examples from good practices. They prepare a virtual restaurant menu, which includes at least two-three cultural meals from partner countries. C5 – We Are What We Eat Festival; Partners organize a food festival in their school, and students show good examples of healthy food and share with peers and families. Materials from previous exchanges are shared at this activity.C6 - Teaching and Learning Well Nutrition; Participants choose lesson to include well nutrition ideas, learning practices, to implement teaching methods to reflect and teach students with project findings about nutrition and avoiding obesity/overweight. Students fill in questionnaires about how they want to learn nutrition with different learning materials in the class.Students (6-14yo) will be the most important actors of this project, whereas teachers will have the role of supervising and managing the process at each level, directing activities and evaluating results. Students will create art pieces out of food, prepare photo albums, restaurant menus and meals to practice and learn. Outcomes will be shared with participants and targeted groups. Reports, worksheets and visual materials which are brought together in five stages, will be shared with higher education professionals, local and national education officials, food companies, and national press in order to show and create a discussion platforms for the understanding, reflection and problem solving for the issue of well-nutrition and good eating habits in respective societies. Some of our partner schools have students coming from low income groups, refugees, especially Estonian and Turkish partners have socially, literally and economically disadvantaged parents. This project will also help those who have an interest and are willing to improve English language and to learn different cultures but couldn't find opportunities, or do not know ways to connect with international peers.

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