Project objectives

The project "Again, Heyday of Health” aims to encourage people to adopt healthy lifestyles, integrating physical activity and care at the level of nutrition in everyday routine, fitting perfectly on the mission to promote human development, health and well-being of the 8 partner institutions. With this partnership, we also aim to strengthen the values of active citizenship through the exchange of experiences and intercultural dialogue.
Being the main objective to combat obesity, stress and risk behaviours, we’ll:

• Advocate community about benefits of a healthy lifestyle;
• Share best practices and learn from others’ experiences;
• Educate for healthy eating habits, relying on the implicit cultural diversity of the project;
• Promote physical activity as a way to achieve well-being and harmonious physical development of our learners.
• Promote a healthy and social occupation of leisure-time, specially in elderly people and disadvantaged women

In this pathway, reaching firstly our learners in order to achieve all community –in a movement of informal chain of communication – we’ll promote a range of activities addressing local culture, sports practice and contact with nature, making use of existing potential and spreading it, exchanging these experiences with our partnership colleges. In addition to these, we will start to implement the activities related to the healthy lifestyle from our own staff, that is to say, we will firstly need to have our staff believe in healthy lifestyle.

A network of local agents will also be established, to communicate our activities and ensure that the message reaches as many people as possible.
Thanks to the Healthy eating and active living program to be implemented and supported by Turkish Ministry of Health between 2010-2014 years in Turkey Kırıkkale Province, Directorate of National Education will carry out the activities conveniently and we shall share them being efficacious with the partners. Develop areas of strategic cooperation in the study of individual, cultural and social factors that facilitate or inhibit active lifestyles in our population, it’s a strategy to obtain data towards specific development of interventions and the concretization of our objectives. The knowledge
generated under this program will be released on articles, forums and at the International Conference to reach community and to promote our project and, consequently, our objectives, compiling all in a Manual of Good Practice for Healthy life.