We All Art. Art and Health

WeAllArt is the result of shared needs in the partner schools: to generate resources and materials to promote health at schools, with activities targeting this issue in a conventional way, regarding healthy lifestyles, as well as in connection with emotional health. This approach comes from surveys and the experience provided by the counselling and social work departments. According to that, students' healthy lifestyles are determined by psychological wellbeing, which require mentoring at this stage of human development. The project goals consider also the potential of creativity of art students, as a resource to generate materials and healthy initiatives, like campaigns and art-connected activities among younger students. Apart from that, the project also sought to enhance basic skills in ICT, its appropriate use and responsibility and application in art projects, to improve all competences in a foreign language (English), to link students at schools with art and health-related professions in the job market, and, finally, to encourage our students in becoming promoters of health in their local communities through entities working in this field.Directly involved students in this project are around 100 students, aged between 16 and 18. However, all students at the partner schools were targeted by the project, through activities like workshops at schools (food education, healthy lifestyles, prevention of substance abuse, emotional expression in group activities, etc.The learning and teaching activities implemented during the exchange meetings included the intervention through art projects at schools (a report of each art project is available from the project blogs, translated into the five working languages: English, Spanish, Bulgarian, Croatian and Latvian). all projects were planned using the Project Based Learning methodology with collaboration on the Twinspace forums.Other activities included workshops with health professionals and art therapists.All the experiences have contributed to generate resources that are now available to replicate this issue at schools. The materials are at the disposal of teachers in all the partner schools in their own language. Thus, further work will be possible according to the initial goals.