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Let's Pedal for a Positive, Environmentalist, Dynamic, Adventurous Life.
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Every school wishes to have healthy learners and our poject aims at educating the students to engage in physical activities, namely cycling in order to gain physical and mental health, view life with more positive eyes and improve their creative and communication skills by making their voice heard when sharing their thoughts and ideas in a foreign language on various internet pages or learn to listen and understand other cultures. Every activity of the project serves at making use of and thus improving students' English and many activities will include constructive methods or techniques as a teaching strategy in the instructional procedure, hence reinforcing students' creativity and capacity to innovate as well as to use the new technologies in a positive manner. The project's main objectives is to motivate students aged 16-19, to increase their interest in fighting against pollution sources and stimulate them to find solutions by starting with themselves, by changing their own attitude with regards to the theme of the project as well as to be aware of the need of an appropriate infrastructure of the cities for bicycles. The idea is to involve the local community and to inform people about the 'cycling culture' with special emphasis on its convenience as an alternative to a healthy lifestyle. Being a sustainable means of transportation, we expect to make students and people aware of how important it is to take up cycling for their health, diminishing at the same time problems such as the lack of parking spaces and crammed traffic. Among the expected results of the project we enumerate the training of students on how to ride their bike safely, the growth in number of pedalling individuals, establishing a Cycling Club in our schools and, as potential long term benefits for our city/town, to set an 'Annual Cycling Day' and to organise campaigns to increase the population's cycling awareness in accordance to the EU policy objectives of reducing energy consumption and pollutant emissions. It will be the sort of project that blends the joy of volunteering with the joy of learning while enjoying oneself. It is a project that is characterized by its interdisciplinary dimension: it is dedicated to those who love nature and sports, geography and history, gastronomy and healthy foods, mathematics and economics as well as technology and literary weaving of adventure narratives. The main activities thus vary from geocatching in Poland by resorting to your orienteering skills, to meeting specialists on environmental matters in Romania (participate to their lectures and further debates), to learning how to cook and picking up healthy eating habits in Italy, meeting famous cyclists in the Czech Republic to interview them afterwads in order to learn about a few tricks about their lifestyles and diet; last, but not least become fittingly aware of your importance as a cyclist in the bigger picture of the equation environment and healthy living as well as to be properly trained to safely pedal through your town or city, due to a thorough introduction to the field as devised by the Turkish team in collaboration with cycling-related associations and organisations. As far as the number of participants is concerned, be it students, parents or members of school staff wishing to participate and make their contributions to the project, there is no limit, as the project is open to everyone willing to cooperate in order to be part or pursue the goals of the project. However, there will be a total number of 16 participants (per each country) that will get to be involved in mobilities to partner countries so that they learn about another people's culture and habits and meet the other participants from the other countries whom they had been virtually talking via etwinning, facebook and other digital means. The project appears as an educational trip through five distinctive countries with specific traditions and customs, but whose people share a common interest and awareness that nowadays 'cycling is a natural culture,' a second nature of the ones who cherish and love the environment as well as being dynamic and happy. If someone does not fit the latter category, one can always take up cycling for a more positive view upon life: "Mens sana in corpore sano," goes the Latin dicton.

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