HILS (Healthy Inclusive Lifestyle through Schools) brings together 8 secondary schools from: Netherlands (Project Coordinators), Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom. Crucially, we have been able to include in the partnership two non-school government organisations based in the Netherlands and the UK specialised in public health and healthy schools, respectively. These member organisations play an essential role in providing the necessary expertise and knowledge required for an effective delivery of the project's goals.
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It is not by accident that this partnership brings together educational institutions from a vast variety of EU regions covering rural and urban areas, north and south of Europe, east and west, and most significantly, students from varying degrees of socio-economic and demographic spectrums, as the project's ultimate aim is to robustly challenge the general perception that a healthy lifestyle and all the perks associated with it, is a privileged of children and adults from the wealthier 'side of town'. In essence this project brings about issues related to social inequality in the context of healthy living and wellbeing, two highly relevant, hotly debated global issues. Over its 3-year course, HILS will enable a large number of young people across this partnership to explore a large variety of healthy living aspects, tackle a number of barriers to a healthier, longer and more fulfilling life.
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HILS has been thoughtfully structured by combining methodologies which have been previously tried and successfully tested as well as by bringing a series of innovative ideas and strategies. The activities have been carefully designed and selected to suit the needs of young people across the partnership, by being both accessible and suitably challenging. These activities will enable the students involved to learn in a progressive way which will lead to the planned outcomes. There is a strong emphasis on students' leadership skills; HILS will empower young people to take control and be the main driving force in their quest for the full implementation of the project's results, which will in turn forge and develop their leadership skills and a let’s do attitude.
There is a detailed, progressive carousel of activities covering the most salient aspects of (un)healthy living, as suggested by the public health professionals, also members of the project. The activities are designed to treat each issue through the following cycle: identify, explore, find solutions, implement, report and disseminate. The length for each cycle will be the time between each LTTA, which means a lot of the work will be carried out at school level, involving a large number of students, staff and people from the local communities and beyond.
The main product of the project will be the HILS Review. In essence, this will be a comprehensive and formal assessment of each school's current provision of aspects of healthy living, including a diagnostic report and a detailed analysis of the short fallings, their root causes, the short and long term impact on young people and members of school community, a rationale for improvement, followed by a list or recommendations susceptible to bring about positive changes and transformations.
In addition to the HILS review, there will be a multitude of other products such as: media articles and reports, videos, posters, leaflets and brochures, presentations, questionnaires, surveys and charts, a number of social media accounts, a project website and Etwinning twinspace, a large number of lesson plans for training sessions and workshops, logos and campaign material etc. The HILS review will feature a number of recommendations and suggestions made to school and local governors on how to improve the wellbeing of everyone in their schools, which will also make the basis for a quantity of promotional campaign material.
We strongly believe HILS covers two highly pertinent topics, and it has been designed to have a deep and long lasting impact and legacy across the partner school communities and beyond. This will be made possible through its robust implementation policy and a relentless approach by all its members. One of our most powerful tools in achieving our goals are our young people and their leading role, as they will be both the subject and the prime recipient of the project's outcomes. Student voice will resonate loud and clear, throughout this project and well after its completion, in order to fully and effectively implement the recommendations and changes identified in their HILS Review.
In many ways, this project has the potential to transform the lives of a great number of young people, who seem to be trapped in a self-imposed vicious cycle of poor lifestyle choices leading to poor health, academic underperformance, lack of aspirations and ultimately, a shorter, less fulfilling life.
There is a detailed, progressive carousel of activities covering the most salient aspects of (un)healthy living, as suggested by the public health professionals, also members of the project. The activities are designed to treat each issue through the following cycle: identify, explore, find solutions, implement, report and disseminate. The length for each cycle will be the time between each LTTA, which means a lot of the work will be carried out at school level, involving a large number of students, staff and people from the local communities and beyond.
The main product of the project will be the HILS Review. In essence, this will be a comprehensive and formal assessment of each school's current provision of aspects of healthy living, including a diagnostic report and a detailed analysis of the short fallings, their root causes, the short and long term impact on young people and members of school community, a rationale for improvement, followed by a list or recommendations susceptible to bring about positive changes and transformations.
In addition to the HILS review, there will be a multitude of other products such as: media articles and reports, videos, posters, leaflets and brochures, presentations, questionnaires, surveys and charts, a number of social media accounts, a project website and Etwinning twinspace, a large number of lesson plans for training sessions and workshops, logos and campaign material etc. The HILS review will feature a number of recommendations and suggestions made to school and local governors on how to improve the wellbeing of everyone in their schools, which will also make the basis for a quantity of promotional campaign material.
We strongly believe HILS covers two highly pertinent topics, and it has been designed to have a deep and long lasting impact and legacy across the partner school communities and beyond. This will be made possible through its robust implementation policy and a relentless approach by all its members. One of our most powerful tools in achieving our goals are our young people and their leading role, as they will be both the subject and the prime recipient of the project's outcomes. Student voice will resonate loud and clear, throughout this project and well after its completion, in order to fully and effectively implement the recommendations and changes identified in their HILS Review.
In many ways, this project has the potential to transform the lives of a great number of young people, who seem to be trapped in a self-imposed vicious cycle of poor lifestyle choices leading to poor health, academic underperformance, lack of aspirations and ultimately, a shorter, less fulfilling life.