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RISE and SHINE
Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Computers, television, online games are fast becoming a major element in the lives of students as more and more students are spending their time indoors and in front of a screen. Particularly, online gaming is a very hard habit to break and it threatens physical, social and mental well-being of youth. Their constant involvement with computer games prevent them having face to face conversations, developing social and personal skills, attain and maintain academic achievement and healthy weight. Unfortunately; many students are overweight or obese due to lack of exercise. Most of them don't know how to deal with stress so they are in the habit of smoking. Briefly; they are deprived of many benefits doing sports can provide them. Doing real sports instead of e-sports can help our students make friends, have fun, develop self-esteem and self-discipline, learn about team work, getting fit and healthy. All in all exercising or practising a sport helps students develop mental, physical and social skills. After tracking general situations of our students, we decided to proceed with sports which has been a crucial part of many good education systems for thousands of years and launch a sports campaign together with our partners. Video games will no longer be the highlight of the day, because there is a better thing to do which will provide you a healthy body and mind. It's sports! The project ( RISE and SHINE) is supposed to turn the teenagers' attention to the real sports.They should stop playing video games for all day long and start moving and sweating. No matter how they do sports with a team or individually, there will be many skills they develop thanks to doing sports and can carry them to their present and future lives as a positive contribution. Encouraging teens to be active from a young age make them set good habits early on and helps them develop the skills they need to stay active, healthy, be self confident, and successful throughout their lives.Project partners offer a range of sports: football, table-tennis, court tennis, cycling, exercise/ fitness activities, swimming, ice-skating, ice- hockey, volleyball, bocce, badminton.Considering that this project launches a sport campaign as offering solutions to common problems detected at schools, our participant students will exercise, practise and train a form of sport regularly. This project also include running groups, walking groups, yoga or pilates sessions briefly a range of multi sport and physical activity groups.We attach importance to giving people a chance to get into sport in the way that suits them best, so our students can choose whatever they want. Teams will be formed for competitive sports with the help of P.E. teachers at schools.Individual competitions will take place during the project as well.These matches or competitions will take place in both national and international activities and they require regular training of the students in teams or individually depending on the sport they choose. A few seminars will be held about the benefits of sports, harms of playing video games like an addict. Some professional sportsmen of exemplary lives will be invited to our schools and have matches with our students and have conversations with them about healthy lifestyles. Sport has a universal language which can connect people whose religions, nationalities and languages are different from each other. Knowing people from different backgrounds makes the participants develop respect and tolerance towards each other which is one of the priorities of strategic partnerships.Getting motivated to learn or improving their foreign languages are the natural consequences of these partnerships.The principle of unity will run throughout the entire project providing opportunities for people from different backgrounds to interact with other communities. The activities of "Rise and Shine" highlight the impact of physical education and sport on students’ social and moral development in addition to physical skills and abilities. Rise and Shine is a collaborative project of 7 different schools from seven different countries. The project was planned for high school students between 14 and 18 years old girls and boys.In every learning activity,Rise and Shine will bring 24 students together from participating countries and at least 24 students from the host country.The diversity of profiles aims at creating a dynamic learning environment to practice intercultural communication.The number of participants is limited in international learning activities but in the national activities much more students will take part. Within a rich, supportive environment teachers will draw on a mix of approaches to promote a climate of creativity and innovation including active involvement in sportive activities, opportunities to learn responsibilities and tolerance for conflicts, to monitor what's going on with the team, partnership with professional sportspeople.
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