Those who are most in need of health education - adults who are socio-economically disadvantaged, with a low level of education and those with a migration background - are the least likely to be reached by conventional offers:
So how can these adults be reached? Health issues have to be integrated into adult education in order to help them acquire a healthier lifestyle and stave off potential illnesses. Simply expecting adults to seek out health education seminars will not have the desired impact or success.
Project Health Box addresses this challenge. The project developed a Health Box, which contains ready-to-use training materials for health promotion. This Health Box can be easily integrated by adult educators in classes on subjects other than health in order to reach the target group. All Health Box materials aim to promote the knowledge, attitudes and skills required to prevent lifestyle-related illnesses and thus to promote and enhance healthy lifestyles.
At the closing conference on 24th November in Vienna, experiences and results will be presented and discussed with experts and practitioners in adult education and the health system. They will be discussed in the wider perspective of the relationship between educational background, social status and health, and in the light of Best Practice examples from other European countries.
If you want to register for the conference click here.
Further information: www.healthbox.eu
31 October 2011
Integration needs innovation! HATTRICK Conference: Football-Learning-Integration
To improve integration processes within a culturally diverse European community there is an urgent need to create innovative methods and to share knowledge! With the project HATTRICK: Football – Learning – Integration we utilised the football pitch as a popular place of integration that also increases opportunities in the labour market. The project HATTRICK shows how, through sport, young people can develop social competences and improve their prospects for the future.
Through the project HATTRICK, young people, particularly those with migration backgrounds or those from other disadvantaged social groups, engage in learning activities in surroundings where they can be full of enthusiasm – on the football pitch. Motivation, strategic thinking and teamwork function side-by-side, not only encouraging the development of key skills for education and work, but also supporting the integration of people from right across the social spectrum.
Loving the game, enjoying playing and experiencing the delight of a good performance are the primary goals of a football player. From there on it is just a small step to connect these football-related goals to improve competences to the higher objectives of helping players to improve their opportunities in the social and professional environment of our modern society.
To best utilise the potential of the football pitch as a place of integration, we have generated training materials for the development and strengthening of social competences of young players and their trainers. The materials such as a football workshop toolkit were then tested in the seven partner countries (Germany, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Austria and the Netherlands) and can now be tested at the closing conference on 8th November in Salzburg. Here we will also discuss the results and collective experiences we gained within the two years of the project.
We look forward to a collaborative and exciting day!
If you want to register for the conference click here.
Further information: www.hattrick-project.eu
Through the project HATTRICK, young people, particularly those with migration backgrounds or those from other disadvantaged social groups, engage in learning activities in surroundings where they can be full of enthusiasm – on the football pitch. Motivation, strategic thinking and teamwork function side-by-side, not only encouraging the development of key skills for education and work, but also supporting the integration of people from right across the social spectrum.
Loving the game, enjoying playing and experiencing the delight of a good performance are the primary goals of a football player. From there on it is just a small step to connect these football-related goals to improve competences to the higher objectives of helping players to improve their opportunities in the social and professional environment of our modern society.
To best utilise the potential of the football pitch as a place of integration, we have generated training materials for the development and strengthening of social competences of young players and their trainers. The materials such as a football workshop toolkit were then tested in the seven partner countries (Germany, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Austria and the Netherlands) and can now be tested at the closing conference on 8th November in Salzburg. Here we will also discuss the results and collective experiences we gained within the two years of the project.
We look forward to a collaborative and exciting day!
If you want to register for the conference click here.
Further information: www.hattrick-project.eu
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Working in the field of EU projects presents many challenges as well as opportunities for learning. People, geographically dispersed all over Europe, working together for the first time, will encounter different interests, motivations and organisational cultures. To assure an innovative and qualitative outcome, the people working on projects need to be transformed into a committed and high-performing team.
With the EU Blog we want to share information on all topics concerning multicultural and multilateral projects. The EU-Blog from die Berater® should also be seen as a platform that provides all people interested in European projects with information on important events, findings on project management and outcomes of certain projects.
The EU Department at die Berater® is itself working on many European projects concerning education and training. In our daily work with multicultural and multilateral teams, we encounter many challenges and opportunities, which we want to share on the EU-Blog. We try as much as possible to write about the issues that we have been facing throughout our experience with EU projects.
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With the EU Blog we want to share information on all topics concerning multicultural and multilateral projects. The EU-Blog from die Berater® should also be seen as a platform that provides all people interested in European projects with information on important events, findings on project management and outcomes of certain projects.
The EU Department at die Berater® is itself working on many European projects concerning education and training. In our daily work with multicultural and multilateral teams, we encounter many challenges and opportunities, which we want to share on the EU-Blog. We try as much as possible to write about the issues that we have been facing throughout our experience with EU projects.
We hope you enjoy reading our posts! Please feel free to comment on the posts. We also openly welcome any questions!
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