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Stronger Parents - Healthier Communities
Stronger Parents - Healthier Communities
Start date: Sep 1, 2016,
End date: Aug 31, 2018
PROJECT
FINISHED
Partnership:Ceutí municipality, Spain. Local authority.Viborg municipality, Denmark. Local authority.ALIAT, Romania. Leading NGO in the addiction field (alcohol and other drugs).Gmina Miejska Ilawa (Poland). Local authority.Iskenderum Youth and Education Association (Turkey). Non-for-profit Association with a wide experience with disadvantged groups (including inmigrants from Syria).Euro-Net (Italy). Non for profit association specialised in the realisation of cartoons, electronic games, videos, apps, movies...Public Health Institute of Varazdin County (Croatia).Context/ background: Partners in this project educate adults on healthy preventive measures. They feel parents lack of parenting and social skills, they don't use digital media in an effective and safe way, they carry out too sedentary lives and do not spend enough time with their children. Educators lack of enough tools and methodologies to reach parents and encourage them to carry out healthier lifestyles.Project objectives: Through this project, partners with different backgrounds and experiences will collaborate to develop innovative ICT tools and methodologies for adults educators to reach parents, providing them parenting skills, making them aware of the importance of carrying out healthier lifestyles and offering them activities and tools to achieve these objectives. During the whole project we will pay special attention to social inclusion in order to reach people with fewer opportunities.Target groups: Our main target will be adult educators to which we will make available the intellectual outputs developed through the project. Our ultimate beneficiaries will be the families, carrying out healthier lifestyles (especially those with children from 0 to18 years old).Project methodology:We will develop three intellectual outputs: An on-line game on healthy issues for adults and children to play together, an app which will show healthy activities taking place in your community and surrounding towns and which will serve to send awareness raising messages to parents and a User's ICT Guide for Adult Educators with recommendations to use and manage the ICT tools in the most effective way, with all the lessons learnt through the project (including tools testing, evaluation and adjustments).To get powerful tools, acceptable by citizens and find out the best way to manage them, we will work on different topics which will be treated in the transnational meetings:1. Kick-off meeting in Ceutí (Spain)2. Communication/ working tools in Potenza (Italy).3. Healthy Communities in Varazdin (Croatia).4. Social skills in Bucharest (Romania).5. Media literacy in Viborg (Denmark).6. Development of the Guide for Educators in Ilawa (Poland)Each partner organising each topic will lead the work during that semester. Topics have been distributed according to each partner expertise. Social inclusion will be treated in a transversal way in every step of the project and Iskenderum Youth and Education Association will lead that work.Results and impacts: We expect to get very powerful tools for educators addressing parents and families on healthy issues. The great advantage of these tools is that they will have been tested in 7 different countries, evaluated and improved. We will make all intellectual outputs totally transferable to other territories and available in 8 languages (English, Spanish, Danish, Romanian, Polish, Turkish, Italian and Croatian).This project will have a great impact on citizens, helping them to carry healthier lifestyles.Sustainability of this project is assured since these tools will be used in partners' organisations day to day work.