Be Healthy, Be Happy !

Nowadays life has brought up many changes in balanced nutrition and physical activity of individuals. We had noticed that youngsters have become more inactive regarding their physical activity. Lack of exercise causes pathological changes in the human body which is resulting in an epidemic of obesity. In Europe overweight affects about 50% of the population, and obesity 20% of the population. Added to this, lack of exercise links to lack of communication and raise of depression due to lonely way of life.

This unbalanced life due to sedentary lifestyle and inadequate nutrition creates many others problems. This may be caused by certain situations facing young people today. We believe also that it is the result of a low level of involvement, lack of interest and mismanagement of time and resources. In this case informing, motivating and providing the necessary tools to change the habits of young people is an effective investment. In the long term it help to produce changes on life quality. The project focuses on exploring key skills “healthy lifestyle, change of attitude to unbalanced nutrition and sedentary life" and wants to provide the details necessary to understand the importance of nutrition and necessary elements of a healthy behavior from a different perspective.

The project aims:
The main goal is to create a framework for interaction and debate for youth in promoting a healthy lifestyle by providing the necessary tools to discover ideas necessary for healthy nutrition and willingness to make a habit for outdoors activity.

Topics included in the youth exchange will be in the following areas:
1. Nutrition: basic rules for healthy eating, healthy food myths, food and the five senses; Biochemistry and processes in the body.
2. Increasing the involvement of young people in society by acquiring responsible behavior towards responsible diet;
3. Social Inclusion: How practices of social inclusion can assist on enrolling more youngsters into physical activity and have them be aware in a positive way about balanced diet.
4. Informing and awareness of the necessity for a healthy lifestyle by increasing the motivation for personal development.
5. Education through outdoor activities - achieving common understanding and definition of education through outdoor activities in inclusive settings, understanding the benefits of using outdoor activities as an educational and social inclusion tool, development of educational exercises based on outdoor activities.
6. Motivation and encourage young people on the implementation of new projects on promoting a healthy lifestyle.

Project objectives we will realize with a group of 30 young people from partner countries, with aged between 16-28 years, during the 12 days of activities, from 30 July to 10 August 2016.

The project will provide the chance of finding a path of personal development, which will be based on an individual assessing of the potential, skills and his/hers future plans. The use of this lifestyle can inspire, motivate and discover the full potential of individual development. With this project we want young people to share the basic skills of a healthy lifestyle. We want them to engage in the practice of outdoor activities and to explore possibilities for implementing these concepts in the opportunities offered by Erasmus+ Program. The project will be based on non-formal learning methods, will be highly participatory, experiential and enable groups to work in interactive workshops.

Young people will have the opportunity to discuss the importance and necessity of their involvement in the long term in an unstable lifestyle issues in their communities, to find and even implement practical solutions for improving quality of life. The project aims to place great emphasis on creative and innovative solutions by creating a best practice guide that young people to convey a message to the community. Good practice guidance will take the form of electronic presentations made entirely of young people.

During the exchange:
Learn about healthy nutrition and habits;
Practice different kinds of outdoor activities;
Learn about crucial skills that we can gain from sport;
Will live in mountain area and will visit Brasov castle surroundings;
Will participate in a culinary workshop
Will participate in a workshop of good manners
Share good practices and learn about different cultures;
and more.

Partnership procedure:
In total, only 3 partner NGO will be involved. To take part in the project please follow the application procedure described below:

1.Fill in the Mandate Application form & Preliminary agreement form;
2.Fill in, sign, stamp, scan all pages and send in .pdf format the Mandate & Preliminary agreement form;
3. Send Mandate application & Preliminary agreement scanned to madalina.albu@centrul-solomon.ro (mail subject: Be healthy, be happy ! – Partner), not later by 23 of April 2015.

Selected partners will be requested to send the original Mandate by post within one week after selection of partners is done by the project team (please keep the original Mandate form until selection results are published).