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Students on the Move in Europe

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-FI01-KA202-066544
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training Funder Contribution: 57,080 EUR

Students on the Move in Europe

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There is a great polarization in lifestyles and understanding the concept of comprehensive welfare between the Youth in Finland (National School Health Poll 2019) and also very widely in Europe (LIKES). Welfare during the study time affects young people's ability to study (Syväoja 2016) and to have energy in everyday life. By physical activity focused and peaceful behavior on the lessons is promoted (Finnish Schools on the Move -program). Especially this is recognized among the youth who are hyperactive or who have challenges in concentrating. In Finland and also wider in Europe, there are a lot of students in VET who have problems to concentrate for different reasons (for example ADHD, ADD, psychological reasons, problems of understanding etc). Physical activities and functional teaching and learning methods increase learning during the lessons and decrease disturbing behavior. Physical activity also affects the conscious functions of the students (for example memory, executive functions).The main topic of the Students on the Move in Europe -project is to find innovative approaches in education to increase the students' and staff members' physical activity during the school days and this way increase the working and studying capability and also health and wellbeing of the students and staff members. Promoting the physical and mental health of the young people studying in VET through physical activity already during their study time is very important not only from the working capability point of view but also to extend the working careers, prevent social exclusion and the financial costs of the exclusion. The Learning, Teaching and Training project activities of the project are planned in a clear way to guarantee the achievement of the project objectives. There is one Learning, Teaching and Training project activity arranged in each participating country, LTTA1: Ready in Finland, LTTA2: Steady in Italy and LTTA3: Go in Slovenia. Arranging one Learning, Teaching and Training project activity in each country gives a chance to have school-wide theme events for all the students in each participating organization. That will maximize the opportunities to achieve the expected results. In each LTTA there will be six students and two teachers from each participating organization. Both physically active and inactive students are included. The physical workshops and theme events during the project activities increase the knowledge for both students and staff members about the importance of the physical activity to the ability to study and work. Adding the knowledge is one of the main steps to activate students for more movement in reality. During the project the participating students plan and implement functions, events and break activities in the school. The students also test their ideas and create functional learning and teaching methods in co-operation with teachers and other staff members. These results will be collected to an open digital platform where it is available to everyone.The main expected results are the exchange of the good practices for promoting welfare and physical activity and innovations for functional learning methods for VET. By implementing the project activities there is an expected result in increasing the knowledge for both students and staff members about the importance of the physical activity to the ability to study and work. Also an expected result during and also after the project is a change to more active and welfare-promoting operating cultures in the participating organizations. Furthermore, during the project there are concrete practical learning methods and tools created to be used to increase the students' and also staff members' physical activity and welfare during the school days. As a result of the project the plan is to have permanent changes in the participating organizations operating cultures which can be seen in increased low-level movement as a part of normal school life.In measurement of the expected impact on the participants, participating organizations, target groups and other relevant stakeholders a RE-AIM evaluation framework is used. RE-AIM is an evaluation framework which is used to evaluate the results of research and development projects in health promotion.To disseminate the project results also outside the participant organizations, there are many relevant stakeholders involved in the project. In Finland these include the national Students on the Move (liikkuvaopiskelu.fi/fi) and Smart Moves (www.smartmoves.fi/in-english/) -programmes, the Finnish VET culture and sports society SAKU ry (sakury.net) and a regional general sports organization Hämeen Liikunta ja Urheilu ry HLU (https://www.hlu.fi/). In Slovenia a special target group for dissemination is the Sport Directorate, which is a part of Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science and sport. In Italy a special target group for dissemination is the local Town Sport Department of Como.

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