The project partners - PL, BG, HU, TR and ES would like to point out the urge of doing sports activities, as most of the young population are spending a lot of time on social media which leads to obesity, lack of social interaction or even suicide.The project aim is to update the meaning of sport as an alternative way of spending free time, making friends, keeping fit, increasing motivation and energy and self-esteem as well as a key element of a healthy lifestyle. The project is designed to raise the awareness of the need for physical activity as a key to wellbeing and dangers connected with it, improve interpersonal and communication skills, enable students to share ideas about their cultures.Students will practice sport together which will help them stimulate imagination, decision-making skills as well as critical thinking and creativity. OBJECTIVESO1. Raising the awareness concerning the importance of practicing sport on a regular basicO2. Promoting safe and reasonable use of sport as a way to improve self-esteem and motivationO3. Enabling students to make an elementary analysis of different kinds of sport taking into account its positive and negative aspects O4. Raising critical thinkingO5. Developing interactive and communication skills and in international environmentsO6. Developing multicultural skills as well as the European awarenessO7. Increasing students’ creativity and imaginationO8. Creating a multinational web of active teenage creators of products connected with the theme from different European countriesO9. Creating a web of responsible teachers who will promote the reasonable use of sport in the teaching processPARTICIPANTS 24 students will be selected at the beginning of the project (aged 12-14) with different backgrounds, at least one third students are disadvantaged.We also want to maintain gender balance). They will work in dedicated teams on the project local activities and some of them will take part in exchanges.Additionally, they will be work in disseminations activities as presenters, organisers or the audience members. In total, there will be 96 learners taking part in exchanges. 40 teachers teaching subjects such as foreign language, PE, social studies, ICT etc. will participate in students’ exchanges.MAIN EVENTSC1– PL– Physical Education in secondary schoolsC2 – BG – Sport as an attractive way of spending free time C3 – TR – The importance of performing sport C4 – HU – Dangers connected with performing some sportsC5 – ES – Sport as an important element of a healthy lifestyleMETHODOLOGYBefore exchanges, students will prepare presentations and some materials connected with the subtopic of each meeting.At the mobilities, students will take participate in the project workshops, they will participate in lectures, and visit some places.They will also work in groups to make final products connected with the topic of each meeting, make posters, prepare exhibitions, conduct debates on burning issues connected with different aspects of sport, perform indoor and outdoor sports etc.During C5 – teachers will create an additional product- a teachers’ guide on how to involve the project-based lessons in the school curriculum. Students will maintain contact even when the project is over through e-twinning, school website and social media. RESULTSThe project results will include the skills, knowledge and attitudes gained by the students and specified in the each exchange description and in accordance with the planned aims, effective cooperation both among students and teachers, developed self-esteem, ability to perform in international environment, ability to express and justify opinions, increased awareness of differences and similarities between the project countries.The project products will include presentations made by students, videos, media articles, posters, materials from workshops created by experts and also by students, surveys applied to students, questionnaires results, the project dissemination platforms, the teachers’ guide to be used during the project-based lessons. Final products will include an e-book, a calendar, a photo-story, and film/films made by students.The teachers’ guide will be used during the project-based classes.IMPACT- The partner schools will use the content of the project to prepare themselves for further projects. - Students will be actively involved in different matters of their local community and they will be able to write articles concerning local problems.- Teachers will be more involved in school activities and they will get motivated to work.- The involved schools will increase their European partnership network.

<< Background >>”Food is tasty, time is short and exercise is hard” mentality exists in more students and adults all over the world. From inquiries conducted in our schools, whose results we implemented in the application, we found out that reasons, why students are not reaching the recommendations of 60 minutes per day of physical activity, are the lack of places where to be active, someone, a friend to be active with, and lack of time. Covid pandemic brought other difficulties and barriers to our lifestyles, one of them being social distancing. Before the pandemic students were active by participating in sport club activities or playing team games. Nowadays, things are harder and as a consequence, the amount of physically active time in a day has been reduced significantly for all. Another issue we want to solve with this project is the low levels of active participation of students in school activities. There is a need in all six schools for increasing the capacity of teachers to motivate, mentor and help students to learn by reflection, to have agency, to be capable of acting by themselves to make plans, carry out actions, make an informed decision based on their knowledge, and be flexible in changing times. There are certain life skills and pedagogical strategies, which are best learned, acquired, and applied through non-formal, extracurricular activities, and afterward embedded into the curriculum. The third need identified in all schools, from all six countries involved in the project, is a low level of active participation in the life of communities. We can help students discover the ways in which they can take action and improve the community, respecting principles of sustainable development, through service learning campaigns.<< Objectives >>Briefly, what we want to achieve is more students, more active and healthy, more often. To obtain that, we have to build capacity for teachers to become active and to be prepared to motivate, mentor, and help students reflect on their progress. Therefore, teachers will obtain knowledge, attitudes, and experience by participating in the learning session about self-determination theory, time management, and reflection. They will develop a model and tools for helping students set a goal, make a plan and reach the goal. During the project, students will gain awareness and understanding about the importance of a healthy lifestyle by participating in conferences and presentations on the theme, will do in practice physical activities, and will change eating habits by participating in the challenges of the project or by setting their own goals. The challenges for physical activity and for changing eating habits will start gradually, and the targets will increase systematically. At the end of the project, the targets will reach, the WHO recommendations regarding physical activity (60 minutes per day of activity, with moderate to vigorous intensity training two times a week) and healthy eating habits (water intake, fresh vegetables, and fruit twice a day, healthy dish- half fresh veggies, o quarter protein and quarter carbohydrates and so on). In addition, the students experiment with an approach for personal development based on competencies from Personal, social, and learning to learn Framework: set a goal, make a plan, achieve the goal. Moreover, in order to be able to establish their own principle of healthy eating and physical activities, students will have to acquire knowledge and apply knowledge of critical thinking and media literacy for the identification of fake news regarding healthy eating and safe physical training. The last objective of the project refers to the involvement of students in community life; regardless the community is the school or the whole city. First, students will help to improve the school culture by embedding healthy eating habits and physical activity into the everyday life of schools, by replacing the vehicle transportation to school with walking or riding or reducing the time spent in a car or bus by leaving the bus or car at a walking distance from school. In order to assure their safety when walking or riding/cycling to school, we will create safe routes to walk and ride in the city, with the help of local authorities and local NGOs. For embedding healthy eating habits into school culture, the schools will establish periodically Special Days (Water Day, Fruit Day, The day without sweets, The Day without Fast Food, etc.). Moreover, students will extend the experience of creating those routes in the cities to neighborhood areas surrounding the cities, where we will set routes or places for individual or small group physical activities, such as hikes, walks, ride- and running sessions. The creation of the routes will be done by service-learning campaigns. Students already identified the need existing in the community as the lack of safe places for physical activity, so the service-learning campaigns will be based on that need. In this process, students will learn to take into consideration when proposing solutions to the problem, all aspects of sustainable development, considering social, economic, and environmental aspects. Once created, students, teachers, the whole school will prove their commitment to physical activity by maintaining and periodically cleaning the routes and spaces and obviously using them, individually or by organizing outdoor events.<< Implementation >>The main activity consists of challenges for PA (physical activity) and EH (eating habits). Every month students, teachers, and parents will be challenged to reach a goal for PA such: number of steps, minutes of activity, number of activities, distance covered by walking, running, riding. For eating habits, they will be challenged to have a number of days without sweets or without fast food, or days when eats much fruits or vegetables, or to count the number of glasses of water, number of days in a month when eating the healthy dish (half vegetables, quarter protein, and quarter carbos), etc. The targets for these challenges will increase gradually until the end of the project.Another activity will consist of courses intended for teachers who will develop knowledge, skills, and attitudes for motivating students, time management, and reflection. Also, teachers involved in this project will have some individual activity in order to reach a specific health goal. Mentoring activities for students with health-related problems, low levels of fitness, in general students who are reluctant to PA or who have unhealthy eating habits. Teachers will create content for the lesson to be embedded in PE lessons and Counseling Classes.Activities for students design to know and understand the basics for PA (warm-up, intensity and cools down).Practical activities with students to experiment new physical activities which can be performed with moderate to vigorous intensity.Sports Events face to face if possible if not, online (virtual competitions, virtual races – all students same time, same hour, different locations)Service-learning projects to design and create safe routes to school, for walking, riding, and running in the surroundings of the cities. Organizing Special Days at which will be invited to join all the students, teachers, and parents.Cooking workshopsCreating healthy recipes for favorite food with replacing some ingredients with healthy ones.Recording of cooking healthy dishes.<< Results >>The main outcomes from our project are: Teachers equipped with know-how about motivating themselves and students to achieve personal goals, to active participation in the school community, to engage in the life of the local community, Students with the recommended level of PA, students with healthy eating habits, students with the ability of critical evaluation of information about PA, about healthy food, and able to transfer these abilities to other fields of interest, students with developed abilities for self-regulation (ability to understand, activate, monitor, control and adapt behaviors), students who act for and in the benefit of the school community and the local community.As for outputs we intend to create at least 6 routes or adopted parks for doing PA, Several safe routes to schools, a Handbook about designing a service-learning campaign, for teachers, a Handbook for embedding Healthy Habits into school culture, guides (Step by step approach to… running, riding/cycling, dancing, outdoor games, hiking, healthy eating, orienteering -designed for students, teachers and parents), Recipe blog - recipes for students’ favorite dishes modified with healthy ingredients, At least 6 vlogs (video - recording of cooking healthy food), 4 types of lessons for PE classes and Counselling Classes, An online platform for monitoring progress of PA and eating habits developed during the project (PDP)

"In today's Europe, youth education is essential. That is why, for the future of Europe, young people's education needs to be flexible, to equip young people with skills and abilities to enable them to adapt quickly to change. In this context, the project coordinator identified social inclusion as a starting point for developing these new skills.Our active and responsible citizenship project brings 5 schools from Italy, Romania, the UK, Poland and Turkey for the first time in a partnership. At present and in the near future, our pupils are in a position to coexist in a society of great cultural, religious, educational diversity, in which they must take precedence over other cultures, tolerance and solidarity. As the young students to whom the project is concerned are at the age of looking for life patterns, we believe that teachers who promote active citizenship by encouraging social inclusion can give young people their own behavioral examples as a model of active involvement in social life. The main aim of our project is to make students understand that active citizenship is the binder that keeps society together.Project's objectives are:1 - to raise awareness of active European citizenship among pupils and teachers from 5 EU schools during 2 year of project and more;2 - develop the knowledge and skills of pupils and teachers regarding the use of foreign languages, ICT and modern education tools;3 - to know directly the cultural diversity of Europe and to promote it4 - to set up a network between our schools to share examples of good practices of active citizenship5 - enhancing the links between school and local community through the existence of a European project to support pupils with special situationsThe project is intended for 250 primary school pupils (6-14 years) indirectly involved and 50 teachers directly involved in the project.Planned activities will lead to the objectives of the project through the Social and Emotional Learning Strategy (SEL) to help students get involved in project development. SEL will help participants acquire the knowledge, attitudes and abilities needed to understand and manage their emotions, personal feelings, set personal goals, develop empathy awareness and establish positive relationships.The concrete results developed through our cooperation are:- 5 presentations ""This is my school and my city!""- 5 videos: ""Cultural values in my community""- 5 multimedia presentations ""Active citizenship in Europe 2020""- 5 multimedia presentations ""Active citizens and environment""- 1 E- magazine ""European Citizens Club""- 4 photo exhibitions- International seminar with external speakers from local NGOs- Web page, blog and Facebook- Leaflets, posters, 2 calendars, 1 brochure- Project DVDDuring the implementing of the project, we will use various training strategies (group discussions, role play, simulations, debates, multimedia presentations, external partners' speeches) to raise awareness of active citizenship. By developing SEL activities (comics, stories, group activities, team building games), we aim to develop the knowledge, attitudes and abilities of our students as active citizens of their communities.To increase pupils' social awareness, self-awareness, self-evaluation, decision-making responsibility and relationship skills; we will organize 4 LTTA with 155 students and teachers - which will have a big impact in schools and local communities. There will be also a Short-term joint staff training events will take place in Italy for teachers form the project’s staff.To build active citizenship as a way of life, there will be 5 active clubs for students in all 5 schools involved in the project. These clubs seek to develop motivation and commitment to promote active participation of students in community life in the long run. One of the club's activities will be the creation of souvenirs and handicrafts for project partners. Club students will receive joint shirts created within the project and other publicity products. Teachers will use an interdisciplinary approach that will be part of the active citizenship e-toolkit that promotes active citizenship. Through this partnership, we aim to achieve co-operation between European schools, closer cooperation with local community institutions, encourage schools to incorporate social and emotional learning programs (SEL) to improve pupils' lives and professional achievement and encourage interdisciplinary teaching.Participation in this project will contribute to the development of long-term schools through institutional development and the promotion of school image in local communities."

Context and Background of the Project:The necessity of this project has its origins in the need of enhancing the motivation of the students with special educational needs (SEN) for learning to become more active citizens of European and overcoming barriers between children with and without special needs in educational and daily social life. Because of the lack of moral values like respect and tolerance, students with SEN can lose their confidence and become anxious, withdrawn or aggressive, which affects negatively their social lives and career in the future, therefore we aim to create a school atmosphere in which students respect other people's differences. Through the project, we will promote positive attitudes towards European Union values like social inclusion, non-differentiation, human rights, equality, democracy, and human rights.Objectives of the Project:-creating an inclusive school by providing a positive educational and friendly school environment without discrimination and unconfidence-supporting the integration of the students with and without special educational needs-motivating the students for learning and increase the students' self-esteem and self-confidence-improving students' communication competence in foreign languages-raising respectful individuals towards democracy and human rights -promoting an active Euporean citizenship and intercultural understanding, tolerance.Number and Profile of Participants:The project will last for 2 years and involves 6 schools from Spain as a coordinator, the United Kingdom, Turkey(Çorum and Afyon), Germany, and Iceland. The project activities will be performed with the students aged 11 to 18. Most of the students who will play the lead in the activities are with special educational needs like educational difficulties and mental deficiency in order to make them taste for the success and develop their self-esteem We will make a bridge between the students with and without SEN thanks to activities in the project like peer-work and team-work.The Schedule of the Project:We have 5 LTTs planned.1st Mobility in Turkey November 2020/with teachers and pupils2nd Mobility in Germany March 2020/ with teachers and pupils3rd Mobility in the United Kingdom May 2020/ with teachers and pupils4th Mobility in Iceland October 2020/with teachers and pupils5th Mobility in Spain April 2021/with teachers and pupilsDescription of the Activities:Through the project, we will create a positive school atmosphere in which all the students especially the ones with SEN feel safe and show their real potential. In the meantime, we will help the students show respect to others and promote positive attitudes towards European Union values like democracy, human rights, nondifferentiation, and critical thinking. Methodology:During the project activities and students exchanges: organizing an Erasmus+ Day, street interviews and surveys, organizing an Entertainment Day, democracy workshop, preparation of school magazine, organizing career days, watching empathy films, fun activities, social activities, creating short films, activities in school garden like yoga, role plays, group/pair work Approach:- creation of an Erasmus+ team and distribution of the tasks- project presentations in various institutions- creation of logo and slogan, website, eTwinning - Facebook page- preparation of Erasmus+ corner in each school- holding seminars, workshops- interviews - campaigns and exhibitions- building a power generator on renewable energy sources;- creation of project magazine, and various materials such as booklets, brochures, posters with EU logo for the dissemination of the projectResults and Impact:In terms of results and impact, we are aiming at raising more conscious students about their life and position as individual and help them develop their full potential and build a more better future enhancing their motivation for learning. By increasing positive interaction between students with and without SEN, we will create opportunities for a good school atmosphere in which students put themselves in other places and respect one another's differences. This project will create international cooperation among not only students but also teachers. Teachers will develop themselves professionally thanks to training, seminars, meetings, and conferences. They will observe the education system of their partners and integrate the positive sides to their lesson plans for the next generation.Long-term benefits:As a long term benefit, we aim to strengthen the European dimension in the school and community. We will support our curriculum in terms of diversity and rights for disability students, and we will maintain a positive educational atmosphere especially for SEN students in and around the school with the help of families and communities.