In September 2022, MINERVA participated in the realization of the project “Healthy life style to break stereotypes project” which was run in Italy.
The 7-day training course aimed to give participants the opportunity to extend their current knowledge and skills and to acquire new ones. The area of health, disease and sports in more inclusive way is continuously updated with new ideas and new knowledge from scientific research. The learning experience on the topic therefore, is very important for educators and trainers who constantly interact and transmit knowledge to groups of people, specifically the youngsters.
Topics included in the training in the following areas:
1. Nutrition: basic rules for healthy eating, healthy food myths, food and the five senses; Biochemistry and processes in the body.
2. Social Inclusion: How practices of social inclusion can assist on enrolling more youngsters into physical activity and have them be aware in a positive way about balanced diet.
3. Education through sport – achieving common understanding and definition of education through sport in inclusive settings, understanding the benefits of using sport as an educational and social inclusion tool, development of educational exercises based on sport.
