CONTEXT AND BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT: Our project "Sharing and Sustaining a Healthy Future - Promoting Health and Wellbeing through a cross-cultural peer learning approach between students with and without additional learning and support needs in Glasgow and Unna" is a two year long strategic school partnership between Hollybrook School in Glasgow and Maerkisches Berufskolleg in Unna (MBK). Hollybrook School is a secondary school for students with additional support for learning needs in Glasgow. MBK is a vocational college for Health and Social Care in Unna, the Ruhr area of Germany. Glasgow and Unna are both regions with a background of working class families, high levels of unemployment and poor health statistics. The topic of health is relevant to both student groups, it is part of the improvement plans of both organisations and is prioritised in international and local educational policies. It offers a rich base for meaningful language and cross cultural learning as it forms part of our students' everyday life experiences. Our PROJECT OBJECTIVES are: - to equip our students with improved skills and knowledge that will lead to a healthy lifestyle beyond school and across countries; - to raise awareness and create a better understanding of different culturally influenced health habits - to enable our students to take a greater responsibility for their own health and wellbeing; - to enable positive relationships between students that will let them see the value this can add to their social wellbeing; - to increase foreign language skills and enable our students to be better prepared for the European job market; NUMBER AND PROFILES OF PARTICIPANTS: 20 students - 10 from each school - will be involved in all aspects of the project including all mobilities. The overall number of participants taking part in the various activities planned for the duration of the project, however, will be higher as the project targets the whole school communities of both organisations. During mobilities, partners from the local community and other organisations will be involved too. The 10 students from Hollybrook School are between 16-17 years old, and all have additional learning and support needs with some of them being on the Autistic Spectrum. For the majority of the students, taking part in a mobility during this project will be their first time they travel abroad. The 10 participants from MBK are between 17-19 years old. A high number of the students are looking to pursue a profession in the care sector with a focus on disability support work when they leave college. DESPCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES: Both student groups will establish initial contact per email exchange to learn about common interests. They will also be carrying out research on health statistics and traditions in each country as part of their language learning and language preparation. During their first mobility the students will then jointly discuss and develop a questionnaire with the help of which they carry out a survey at their own schools to achieve an analysis of the health and lifestyle habits of their school communities. The results will be evaluated by the group and shared with the wider and local communities of each school. During the second mobility, the project group will focus on addressing the findings of the health surveys and start taking action together by planning and preparing healthy meals and taking part in health and wellbeing activities together. The activities during the final two mobilities will focus on peer and team work. The students, operating as peer leaders, will organise, prepare and deliver a range of workshops to their school communities, parents and participants from the wider local community. METHODOLOGY: Our project has a strong focus on peer learning and co-operative learning. All types of peer learning activities during our mobilities aim to boost motivation, confidence and a deeper cross cultural understanding. RESULTS AND IMPACT: For both schools, we expect to see: - our students to be more knowledgeable about individual, socially and culturally influenced health habits. - our students to mature into role models and become an inspiration to fellow students and future generations - a sustainable relationship and long lasting relationships between our organisations and its participants - a sustainable change in lifestyles and attitudes towards health and wellbeing among our students and the school community - an increased motivation among our students to learn foreign languages - an improvement of our students' foreign language skills - higher attainment in the English and German departments At MBK specifically, we expect to see increased skills when working with students with additional learning and support needs which will have a direct impact on improving students employablilty skills when looking for work in the care sector.