Healthnic: Healthy and ethnic diet for inclusion

"Food is a great vehicle for sharing culture with people from different backgrounds.The Erasmus+ project “Healthnic: Healthy and ethnic diet for inclusion"" (2017-1-EL01-KA204-036253) created the Healthnic Diet Workshops based on participatory learning methodology. The workshops enable participants such as refugees, immigrants, local people, and vulnerable target groups to acquire basic skills such as home economics, healthy eating education, food preparation methods and also language and ICT skills by creating digital stories focused on the knowledge gained. Above all the project focus on how a person can acknowledge her/his own home country food traditions and interact in a culturally inclusive environment.The partnership was composed of the project coordinator Vardakeios School (GR) and partners: Danmar Computers (PL), Diciannove Coop. (IT), Institute of Technology, Tralee (IR) and Merseyside Refugee Support Network (UK)15 staff members from the 5 partner countries attended a 5-day Learning and Teaching Training activities seminar on Syros island and then organised local workshops, in their own countries were overall 60 participants from the above target groups attended cooking and digital storytelling sessions. All these activities were based on the Practical Guide that was created with the contribution of the staff of all organisations and includes step-by-step instructions on how to organise a learning by doing cooking, multicultural and interactive workshop. The feedback from all the workshops was gathered and became the main material for the second educational resource, the Healthnic Toolkit, which is a web-based compilation of interactive resources, do`s and don`ts and comments from the participants and facilitators. During the last months of the project all partners organised Multiplier Events to disseminate the project and the intellectual outputs on professionals that work with the above target groups. These meetings set the bases to expand the horizons of the project, to create a link between the project partners and the local, national and international stakeholders. It`s really optimistic that many organisations want to organise Healthnic workshops and are in contact with the consortium in order to advise them and to receive more feedback from the gained experience.Healthnic.eu is the e-platform that the project created in order to offer to everybody all the educational resources (translated in English, Greek, Italian and Polish) and material that was produced during the implementation of the project. There you can find:-the Practical Guide to Healthnic Workshops - available in Free Download -the Healthnic Toolkit - a free web-based interactive manual -the videos produced over the last two years in the various workshops developed in several European countries- and also all the data about all the activities carried outCooking as a group brings us together because we are able to share our culture and heritage through food and give each other nourishment.For more information on the project don`t hesitate to contact us on:Mail: info@healthnic.eu / vardakeios@gmail.comWeb: www.healthnic.euTel: 00306936497398or follow us on social media"