"""We are healthy - choose what we eat, choose how we act!"""

<< Background >> Our school as well as our partners has been closed for several months and children couldn’t participate in sport competitions or regular training. All these increased number of children with weight problems. At the same time in families with less opportunities children have suffered and they didn’t benefit from the food they got in school. It is very important for these children to have a chance to a healthy and balanced life. All of these children are at risk of mental breakdowns. Based on the needs analyzes carried out within each school, we identified the following real common problems: -students have an increased body mass index compared to normal on the 12-14 year old target;-Students communicated during the pandemic only with 4-5 classmates;-Sports activities were reduced or absent during the pandemic, except for students living in a house with a yard;Through this project we wanted students to get in contact with partners from different cultures, but who face the same problems. Through direct interaction we established real solutions: menus, eating habits, sports activities, but also increasing self-esteem and the degree of involvement in communicating with students from their own school or partner.<< Objectives >>We establish the following objectives: - Help children in losing weight and adopting a healthy lifestyle; - Reducing bullying over fat children and children with less opportunities by promoting inclusion; - Reconsidering sports as essential activity for having a long term strategy for a heathy life.We may synthetize our goal in helping children and adolescents with weight problems to achieve a positive weight and emotional balance in a positive way, gaining self-confidence and new friends. Participants in this project, by raising awareness of the need for a healthy lifestyle, changing the fast food diet with healthy traditional food and adequate water consumption.As to the expected impact of the project in the field of personal development, students will increase their awareness about the appearance, perception of the body. Promoting cultural interaction and of traditional feeding methods helped children to establish connections with the community in which they live by promoting their own culture and that of their partners.For teachers we wanted to identify ways to integrate content related to a healthy lifestyle in the taught subjects or during counseling hours.<< Implementation >>Activities were:Make acquaintance- Cooking activities-group mobilityDance is the most attractive way to move-group mobilitySports as essential activity for a heathy life-group mobilityACTING TOGETHER - WATER IS LIFE-Seminar onlineThe activities carried out were registered on the three directions imposed by the chosen objectives:-promoting healthy eating: cooking together, tasting traditional recipes and associating historical information related to food, analysis of the body mass index and its significance, workshops organized by specialists on the importance of control over sugar in food/beverages, on water consumption, making posters that promote water consumption on a regular basis.Green Day in School promoted the consumption of fruits and vegetables.-sports activities: friendly competitions in climbing, double-dutch, roller hockey, volleyball, cycling, football, outdoor sports, dance.10 MINUTES OF DANCE activity attracted students from outside the target group.-psychological counseling activities: workshops related to the prevention of physical violence and violence in the online environment, workshops related to student instrumentation with techniques for overcoming emotions and developing self-confidence.<< Results >>The expected results of this project were also behavioral-attitudinal and intellectual:The most important behavioral result was the improvement of the BIM of 20% of the students in the target group.Behavioral results were in the field of inclusion and the fight against intimidation. Recognizing that the fight against weight gain begins with a recipe for healthy foods, with involvement in food preparation and developing skills to be independent and to practice leisure sports were also behavioral as were cultural exchange and using English in context.The intellectual results consisted of: cooking book in the language of each country and in English, dance film made by the participants in the project, personalized nutritional plan. In addition to these planned results, we also made a brochure corresponding to the 10 Minute Dance activity that contains both the specific stages of learning a dance, but also the ways of organizing dance therapy workshops.At the same time, presentations made by participants of the online seminar became the basis of open educational resources of schools and can be used free of charge by teachers in school or in the community of learned subjects or in classes of counseling, extracurricular activities.