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"Food systems have the potential to nurture human health and support environmental sustainability; however, they are currently threatening both. Providing a growing global population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems is an immediate challenge. Inspired of these statements of the EAT lancet commission which induced a strong iniciative in Europe and further worldwide we 6 schools from Lithuania (Panevezys), Turkey (Tarsus), Spain (Begur), Poland (Czeladzi), Macedonia (Skopje) and Targu Jiu (Romania) have joined the project ""Eat healthy. Act responsibly"" devoted teaching healthy eating habits and responsible consumption among primary school pupils and teachers. The coordinator role of the project takes over Lithuanian school. Taking in account the annual reports of school health carers, primary classes teachers about decreasing health of their students the project participants pursue to spotlight the impact of healthy nutrition for their communities; to introduce education about healthy food and give orientation in the confusion of diets; to improve English language competences in the project topic vocabulary and encourage elementary students and teachers to be able to defend their opinion in foreign language; to contribute to the primary lessons in science, foreign language, mathematics and arts for better and developed content related to the topic healthy nutrients, responsible action for environment, calculation of human beings foot print - all those objectives lead to development of students' and teachers' general competences.There are planned 5 international learning, teaching and training activities during 24 months. The project partners are going to apply questionnaire results for exploring of eating habits among their students' families and start educational lectures, meetings with dieticians, doctors, people responsible for local food control. The project participants are going to include social educators, medical carers, other experienced teachers into these workshops. All partners have to be registered on etwinning platform and share project activities online to attract more users. In the next steps of the project going on there will be arranged excursions to local food producers, meetings with organic farmers, food shop managers to hear their tellings about healthy nutritious food production and selling. The participants are going to investigate which obstacles are in the processed food, study the labels. One international activity will be devoted the food tradition in countries' holidays to focus on evolutionary impact to human beings. There the partners expect creativity and tradition knowledge of each other. Gradually carrying out the project the students are going to start 3 months experiment based on survey and education activities trying consume responsibly and eat healthy. The main role here will play families and diaries written with videos or pictures. The experiment will be discussed in further international activities with conclusions made by experiment participants, teachers and other students. Considering that all these international activities will be done in English it is a big challenge for primary pupils. Their motivation must be very high.During the international activities the teachers will have a great opportunity to visit each other lessons and evaluate how progressive the project topics are being applied in the lessons.The partner schools' administrations are obliged to observe and evaluate the impact of project activities on science, foreign language and art lessons. The survey using the same questionnaire as in the beginning of the project will be carried out before the end of the project and the results thoroughly compared and discussed in order to get the picture how real is it to eat and act healthy in our modern societies. The project partners expect to receive answers from this activity.The presentations made during the activities will be put on etwinning platform and on school webpages. The project will end with healthy food party or celebrities in Targu Jiu Romanian school with presenting healthy traditional dishes of the partners collected during the project and closing workshop of teachers to discuss and evaluate the impact of the project.The list of local healthy food producers and small food shops, farmers selling their production will be prepared for each country and shared locally to other people. The questionnaire about eating habits and consumption will be used after the project in partner schools to keep the investigation going on and shared among other schools. The primary teachers are going to disseminate their improved science, English language, art lessons in local workshops and seminars. The participated schools are going to arrange healthy food fairs, competitions and fiestas after the project and invite other school communities to join."
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