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"Our project was called ""ON THE MOOVE"". According to this slogan of the project we wanted pupils to realize that sport activities are very important for a healthy life. We wanted them to take over responsibility for their life. We wanted to develop their skills to live a healthier life. The basic of the project is a survey from the European Union about the health and the physical fitness of the european youths with the name “Helena”. It shows some dramatic results: Nearly every third boy and every fifth girl is too overweight. Thus, every year the number of overweight young boys and girls increases in an alarming way. “On the move” Sport and Healthy Lifestyle was based on a new survey at European level about the health and the physical fitness of the European teenagers that showed some dramatic results about overweight, wrong food habits, wrong lifestyles. All partner schools confirmed this situation because of their own experience and decided to exchange their experiences and support the teenagers to do more sport and to live a healthier life. The precondition for the successful realization of this aim was that students became motivated to organize their way of life attentively and actively and on the other hand, they had to be able to find offers and varied impulses to get ""on the move"". In addition to that, all students have trained their cultural and linguistic competences. The project has enabled also young people, especially disadvantaged young people, to learn more about Europe while travelling to foreign European countries. According to the study our aims are: We want our students to do more sports, eat healthier and promote healthy habits in their lifestyle. We want them to know, what the consequences are, if they live without enough motion and if they eat too fat, especially when they are young. We want them to know the consequences for their life, when they are older, too.The precondition for the successful realization of this aims is, that the boys and girls become motivated to organize their way of life attendive and active and on the other hand, they must be able to find offers and varied impulses to get ""on the move"". Every partner chooses 3 pupils for each learning/training/teaching activity. These pupils get a lot of information, impulses and motivation to life a healthier life. They are the ambassadors for the special topic of the meetings and will present the outputs to the pupils of their school by showing short clips, pictures and by telling about their experiences. The topics of the meetings were:Meeting in Germany: Initial evaluation about the lifestyle of the pupils, learn to know the partner schools and sportsMeeting in Poland: Get to know different sports that exist in the partner schools and special type of sports in the partner countries.Meeting in Italy: ""Mooving food festival"": Lern about the eating habits in all partner countriesMeeting in Croatia: ""Outdoor sports"": Get to know especially outdoor activities to live a healthier life and to be more in motion in the nature. Meeting in Greece: ""Dance moves you"": Get to know espacially that dancing is an exciting freetime activity to life a healthier life.Meeting in Spain: ""Be on the move"" with the students on the pilgrimway Way of St. James The focus in the methodical approach was on the students' direct interaction with the different activities proposed, so that they learnt with a hands-on approach, learning by doing. For example, all the sports activities proposed, the traditional games in which they participated, the festivals of traditional food which they tasted as examples of a healthy diet; in all these cases, they were directly involved and participated directly.Communication and ICT played also an essential role. The common contact language was English and because it was used in all activities, the pupils will improve their linguistic ability.Evaluation played an essential role in our project and the results of the activities were discussed during the meetings. What is more, all students reflected their nutrition and motion habits, discussed alternatives to their behavior and their action and they changed their behavior pattern (more motion and a healthier nutrition. The pupils - thanks to the work on the subject – understood that a unhealthy way of life may lead to serious health problems in advanced years. And finally, we believe this experience will encourage our students to participate in further European programmes like the Erasmus programme. Maybe they will take part again in further education or school attendance or even to make an internship abroad, to study abroad or to encourage their own children one day to do such an experience on their own. It will enhance their feeling of European citizenship and the students will definitely feel more confident of going abroad on their own not only for holiday but for a real exchange between European neighbours."
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