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Team 4 Healthy Life
Start date: Jun 25, 2014, End date: Jan 24, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

“Team 4 Healthy Life” was a youth exchange created by Associazione P.E.CO. Volunteers from P.E.CO. share a great passion for sport in general and they have already experienced sport activities with children and youngsters at a local level.The new Erasmus Plus programme underlines the importance of sport in everyday life, therefore Associazione P.E.CO. decided to organize the above-mentioned exchange in order to raise the youngsters' awareness about sport and healthy lifestyle.This youth exchange aimed to:• offer to underage youngsters with fewer opportunities an important possibility of personal growth, in a multicultural environment and in the beautiful town of Pietra Ligure; • use the typical tools and techniques of non-formal education to transmit the importance of an healthy lifestyle in everyday life; • give the opportunity to create a long lasting cooperation with the selected partners and an exchange of good practices, moreover it aims to involve Ligurian youngsters in future projects abroad inside the European Union. This project involved 38 participants plus 12 educators: all the participants will be with fewer opportunities in their countries. All the educators participated to the exchange with experience with youngsters with fewer opportunities.During the first two days, activities the focus was on getting to know each other, afterwards the participants had the opportunity to explore the town of Pietra Ligure, played different team games and they carried out intercultural evenings during the night. All the activities fostered non formal education's tools and promoted the inclusion of each participant.An essential role in this youth exchange has been played by non-formal education methods, moreover the whole exchange was supported by a constant communication among the educators, thanks to daily meetings. The expected results of this project are:• to get a concrete awareness about the importance of sport and healthy lifestyle among participants;• to exchange good practices among the partner organizations;• an involvement of the local community of Pietra Ligure;• possibility of realizing long lasting partnerships;• to foster international mobility for youngsters within Erasmus Plus programme.This exchange had a concrete impact on the local community of Pietra Ligure and it promoted the international mobility also on a regional level thanks to social media and newspapers. Moreover the presence of partners from different part of the European Union gave the opportunity to start an interesting cooperation for future projects, with relevant effects at a European level.The project “Team 4 Healthy Life” gave to Associazione P.E.CO. the possibility to develop its network with new and experienced organizations, with real effects for the future about the participation to new projects and the involvement of the Ligurian youngsters inside the various opportunities of the Erasmus Plus programme.
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