Health Practices for Own Self–Improvement /HEPOSI/ Manual

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Content

About #HEPOSI project ................................................................ 6 Healthy lifestyle – Training course .....……………………………...... 9 Importance of sport/physical activity for healthy lifestyle ........................................................................... 11 Sport values

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Sport and inclusion (disabilities)

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#HEPOSI Activities – created in project framework ……. 28 #HEPOSI Good practices in the field of sport ……………... 42 #HEPOSI Healthy Recipes ....................................................... 50 #HEPOSI Non-formal educational activities ...................... 63 Project team members and participants in #HEPOSI project ............................................................................ 77 Disclaimer ………………………………………………................................ 80 Authors and researchers ........................................................... 80

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Official project name:

Health Practices for Own SelfImprovement /HEPOSI/

Project acronym:

HEPOSI

Project hastag:

#HEPOSI

Project lifetime:

01/11/2018 – 31/10/2020

Project number:

602372-EPP-1-2018-1-BG-EPPKA2-CBYACPALA

Project webpage:

www.heposi.eu

Project Facebook group:

www.facebook.com/groups/heposi/

Project Facebook page:

www.facebook.com/heposi

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About #HEPOSI project

According to WHO data, more than 80% of the World’s population in insufficiently physically active. The combined effect of insufficient physical activities and improper food consumption patterns has been qualified as a challenge to global health by the WHO. Eurostat data (2014) outline an alarming picture regarding the diffusion of obesity (a critical risk for health and significantly connected with incorrect habits of physical activity and nutrition) among the European youth, with 22,8% of youngsters aged 18 – 24 overweight in EU 28.

The FAO pointed out, in its 2016 Report “The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean”, the correlation between the general decrease in malnutrition and hunger and the increase in overweight and obesity among the population of Latin America. The available data show that around 5 percent of the inhabitants of the region is either obese or overweight.

At the same time, the Report highlights the disproportionate impact obesity/overweight is determining on women as compared with men.

Female obesity is 10% higher than male obesity in 20 among Latin America and Caribbean countries.

“HEalth Practices for Own Self-Improvement” (HEPOSI) envisages a cooperation among NGOs from Europe and the Latin American region targeted at addressing the compelling challenge of promoting healthy physical activity and food consumption practices among young people through Non Formal Education (NFE) methods.

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Project educational activities are: ▶▶ Training Course on education in healthy lifestyles, involving youth operators from partner countries and implemented based on a Format TC jointly developed by the Consortium partners; ▶▶ Local awareness-raising campaign on the topic of healthy lifestyle at the national level in all partner countries; ▶▶ Youth exchange on healthy lifestyle for the youth, involving young people aged 18 – 25 from each partner country.

Outputs of the project are: ▶▶ The present Manual “Healthy Sensitive Youth”, outlining the methods employed throughout project learning activities (TC and YE) as well as detailing a comprehensive outline of the project and of its achievements. ▶▶ Web Platform in multiple languages – www.heposi.eu. The Web Platform stores the contents developed in the project, the details of activities (including the Social Campaign) and digital versions of the Outputs. In addition, the Web Platform serves as an informational hub for local follow-up by the partners.

Project implemented various activities in the period of 24 months for Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices to improve Capacity Building for Youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia and has been co-funded by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Consortium consist of two European organizations – Bulgarian sports development association – Bulgaria and Mine Vaganti NGO – Italy and two Latin American organizations – Asociacion Puente Sur – Paraguay and Brigada de voluntarios bolivarianos del Peru – Peru.

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Healthy lifestyle – Training course

From June 15th to 23rd 2019, twenty youth workers from four different countries met in Sassari, Italy to talk and to address health problems related to bad habits in food consumption and lack of sports in each country.

Since the beginning of the meeting, participants were involved in non-formal education style of learning, getting new abilities to research the problems studied and creative solutions. All the activities were part of no formal education: Energizers, icebreakers, team building, workshops, intercultural nights, visiting the city, etc. They used some role-play games for disabled people and put themselvesin the shoes of these people through simple games and physical activities. All the participants were very involved in this project and did a lot of work. They were creative and the trainers let them show their ideas. They created some healthy and simple recipes that could be cooked at home. This let them express their traditions and way of living.

Health issues related to bad food habits and lack of physical activity.

Health issues cannot be seen now with indifference. Public policies in many countries are starting to me bore needed and urgent. In consequence, the role of the society should be more active.

Some say that, apple a day keeps the doctor away, and the main objective of this project was about eating healthy and sharing the experience with others. We are all conscious that we are not going to solve all the problems related to this issue. However, what we want to achieve is to make a difference in small communities, creating the awareness that with a proper food consumption and appropriate physical activity life can be better.

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Importance of sport/ physical activity for healthy lifestyle

Importance of sport / physical activity for healthy lifestyle The practice of physical activity and sports provides multiple benefits for the physical and mental health, it also helps to build healthy lifestyles, contributing to the quality of life and reducing the risks to health.

The World Health Organization (WHO), provides the following data, "more than two thirds of young people in the world do not have sufficient physical activity to benefit their current and future health". For this reason, many educational institutions are aware that it is necessary to provide spaces for young people to practice physical activities and sports, just as different schools dedicate subjects and schedules to the practice of physical activities and sports.

That is why many researches in this field conclude that young people who perform physical activity are more balanced, open, and cordial and release tension. The practice of sports helps to develop attitudes of coexistence and cooperation; there are rules that must be respected and this is expressed in what is everyday life, also helps them develop responsibility and values for ​​ life.

The sedentary way of living and the lack of regular physical activity are part of the factors that lead to obesity. Lack of time, fatigue and age can be some causes why people do not do sports and it leads to a sedentary life.

Self-motivation and awareness of the need of the organism to initiate the habit of physical activities are needed.

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Television, computer and books provide relaxation and entertainment but it is not the only thing the body needs to stay healthy. The keys to changing bad habits are will and discipline. For example, using the bicycle to go somewhere nearby or up the stairs instead of using the elevator, accompanied by a varied and healthy diet, will contribute much to improving the quality of life of people.

Many benefits can be obtained through the practice of sports. If we focus on the health of the population, we can see that the constant practice of sports helps our body in different aspects. Some of the following are described:

SISTEMS At the organic level

OBSERVATIONS ▶▶ Increased joint elasticity and mobility ▶▶ Greater coordination, ability and ability to react ▶▶ Muscle gain, which results in increased metabolism, which in turn causes a decrease in body fat (Prevention of obesity) ▶▶ Increased resistance to body fatigue

At cardiac level

▶▶ There is an increase in organic resistance ▶▶ Improvement of circulation ▶▶ Pulse regulation and decrease in blood pressure

At the pulmonary level

▶▶ There is an improvement in lung capacity and consequent oxygenation, the functioning of the alveolus and the exchange of gases, and improves the functioning of the respiratory muscles. ▶▶ Development of muscle strength that in turn conditions an increased bone strength (Osteoporosis is prevented). ▶▶ Improvement of body position strengthening of lumbar muscles.

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▶▶ Prevention of diseases; like Diabetes, Hypertension Arterial, Osteoporosis, Colon Cancer, lumbago, etc.

At the cardiovascular level

▶▶ Decreases heart rate and blood pressure. ▶▶ Improves the efficiency of heart function and decreases the risk of cardiac arrhythmias.

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Metabolic level

▶▶ Reduces the production of lactic acid, the concentration of triglycerides, cholesterol and LDL helps to decrease and maintain a healthy body weight, normalizes glucose tolerance, increases the capacity of use of fats as an energy source, the consumption of calories, the HDL concentration and improves the functioning of the insulin.

At the level of the blood

▶▶ Reduces the coagulability of blood.

At the neuroendocrine level

▶▶ Decreases the (catecholamines).

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▶▶ Increase sweat production. ▶▶ Tolerance to warm environments production of endorphins.

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At the level of the nervous system

▶▶ Improves muscle tone, reflexes and coordination.

At the gastrointestinal level

▶▶ Improves intestinal function and helps prevent colon cancer.

At the musculoskeletal level

▶▶ Increase the strength and number of blood endings in skeletal muscle. ▶▶ Improves the structure, function and stability of ligaments, tendons and joints. ▶▶ Prevents osteoporosis and improves posture.

On a psychic level

▶▶ Increase the capacity of willpower and self-control. ▶▶ Decreases anxiety, depression.

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▶▶ Stimulates creativity, affective capacity and improves memory and self-esteem of the person.

SOURCE: B. Albelo Armenteros. Recreational physical activity. University article.

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Nowadays, the insufficiency of sport practices has been highlighted as one of the main factors of death in worldwide and Europe and Latin America are not outside of this reality.

Currently, and in accordance with numerous studies and reports made by various international organizations such as the "Pan American Health Organization" and the "World Health Organization", have established that numerous diseases such as heart problems, kidney failure, morbid obesity, diabetes and many different types of cancers have suffered a remarkable increase in the appearance of them.

Those studies emphasize that one of the factors that have influenced these high rates of diseases is due to the insufficiency by the general population of the practice of sports activities.

Anyway, are these statistics irreversible? Are the people condemned to a sedentary life without the possibility of any type of change? In fact, that is not true, and it only depends on changingcertain habits in everyone one's life to achieve a healthy life.

Through the regular and adequate practice of the most diverse sports practices, which includes the corporal movement, also realizing the use of corporal energy and burning of calories can reduce the risk of many diseases and non-communicable disorders, such as the emergence of hypertension, diseases related to the heart, the possibility of suffering strokes, etc.

Other benefits related to physical activity include weight control, which in turn optimizes the bio cellular performance of the body and stimulates the bone health of each individual.

Be active, a fact that helps us live more Currently, according to official figures from the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four adults (around 1.4 billion people in the world) do not perform the 150 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on a weekly basis that are recommended for a healthy life.

At a global level, citing sources from this organization, women are less active (32%) than men (23%), and physical activity is being reduced as the age of the majority grows and the poverty of the countries grows.

Thus, to achieve the levels of physical activity necessary to achieve a healthy life, they must focus particularly on how to work with local 14

populations in general, and on the most disadvantaged populations in particular so that daily routines can be carried out, in order to obtain an active life.

According to what has been developed in these healthy practices for self-development, the promotion of sports activities should be not only as a requirement, but on the contrary should be fun, so that everyone can do it on the one hand and on the other, to become a routine so that it is not abandoned over time.

Reversing these figures depends on us and it is necessary to be more critical to avoid falling into diseases that could be avoided.

Messages to the government and to the people In this short manual we would like to address two issues that we consider to be the most important and pressing in our everyday life.

Here we would like to raise even further awareness in these urgent matters and propose some solutions to help and to appeal both the governments and citizens of the world to be more motivated to stay physically active during their everyday lives and try to find connection, passion and empathy through the practice of sports.

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The purpose of this manual is to somehow inspire and motivate both the nations and their leaders to invest in themselves and try to find the perfect balance between increase in physical activity and financial/economic growth. To find the best path of benefiting from each other and how to help sport develop in the developing counties of the world. ▶▶ The first and most important issue we would like to discuss is the inactivity and lack of physical culture in the people of every generation around the world.

In the utmost, the nation as a whole is faced by the great problem of obesity. Statistically speaking globally 1 in 10 people are diagnosed with obesity. This as most of you know is associated with a number of health problems and concerns including hypertension, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke, osteoarthritis and mental illness. All of which can be a life threatening. For this reason, it’s truly important that we understand the consequences that may occur and try to find in ourselves to be more willing to take care of our bodies and mental state.

Looking at the issue from a financial perspective, obesity can be quite costly. Researching through charts and statistics, we managed to get to the conclusion that in the United States alone the annual medical costs were estimated at around 100 billion dollars. Now imagine if the government invested this amount of money in promoting physical education and culture.

As far as the team is concerned, we can surely say that this increase in physical activity can easily turn into health care savings in no time. Furthermore, by preventing obesity life expectancy can be lengthened for next generations. ▶▶ The second and equally important topic we decided to bring to your attention is the government’s involvement in both professional and grassroot sport.

We concentrated and researched mainly on the more undeveloped countries in the world. Unfortunately, all of the information and results we found turned out to be quite disturbing. In these specific places corruption in the higher institutes wields power. Especially when we talk about professional sports. These practices have been turned into a moneylaundering and politicians-benefitting kingdoms.

As depressing as it may sound to us, the people who still believe that sport is a higher form of communication, one that pushes boundaries, breaks prejudices, has no race or background or age, we still think all of this can be changed. By investing in sport facilities and young talented athletes, the government can invest in itself.

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Still to this day being a successful athlete brings prestige and recognition to your country. It makes the nation proud and brings it together to celebrate.

Not a lot of things nowadays have that particular power.

By hosting a big sport events a certain city or a whole country can put itself on the tourist map. Local business economy gradually increases.

Accommodations, bars, restaurants will be full during such events.

• To the governments around the world: Considering what we mentioned in the written above, all we can do is appeal to you. Appeal that for a moment you forget about money, about expensive cars and clothes. And instead put yourselves in our shoes. The shoes of the regular person. The ones that need your protection and support in order to make it out there. Looking at the issues from our perspective, can you imagine being the best checkmate player or having the best results in swimming a certain distance your age and not having the financial support of your government to compete on a professional level in other countries?

Simply because “you don’t have the money” to finance the trip or because there are “more pressing matters” that need that money. No. We’re sure you can’t. Or maybe you just don’t care enough. Exactly for these reasons we hope that someday, preferably soon, you’ll be able to eliminate money as a main driving force in your minds and you’ll consider putting your support in the people. As it is your duty.

• To our fellow citizens: You all probably already know what we would like to say and point out to you. Just be active! Every change starts within ourselves and after all we are the only ones who are responsible for our health, both physical and mental.

It only takes that one Zumba lesson, that one gym session, that one jog in the morning or whatever. Once you release the energy flow that activities give you, you can be addicted for life. The best kind of addiction. Imagine how many people will cross your life, how many connections you will cultivate, how many different perspectives you will get to know. As for all of you who have chosen the path of sports as a professional carrier, never give up.

Fight for your rights, for your time and talent and for the respect you have to have given.

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Sport values

Sport is not only to achieve some results or to take the first place. It is also about fun and enjoyments, a way to spend time together with friends or make new friends. You meet new people who have different background and personality from yours, so sport gives you also the sense of respect to each other. As well as to respect the rival, because after all it is only a game which you should enjoy and acquire only the positive emotions. Sport is a passion – to achieve the best result, always to be on top and the ultimate happiness when your team wins or simply when you take a look of yourself into the mirror and you can admire your good-looking body. Work hard, be constant, never give up, always overcome the obstacles you meet – this is the only way you can reach your goal. Never the less, sport develops in you a sense of ethic work. Fair play is one of the basic sport values, always to respect and help the other ones, the different ones.

HONESTY: Sport helps to have a better perception of the world and the things that exist in it, of those around us. Help to banish egomania. It seeks to help others and to improve their living conditions.

INTEGRITY: Sport demands a better personal development, and whoever achieves this is definitely a person of integrity, with good physical and emotional health. With these capabilities, we help to improve our environment and society.

HUMILITY: Those who practice sports have to possess and cultivate this fundamental value. Humility generates self-confidence, but also inspires confidence in others.

PROFESSIONALISM: A constant and persevering athlete is a professional athlete, can climb and reach unimaginable levels and goals.

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DISCIPLINE: Sport requires discipline, if you want to reach the goal, achieve the expectation and personal satisfaction. This involves organizing your time and space, consuming healthy foods, maintaining good mental state.

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Sport and inclusion (disabilities)

The sporting practice allows a fundamental change in attitude among children to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities. Sport is one of the ways that allows young people to be contacted with and without disabilities. When boys and girls without disabilities are given the opportunity to practice sports with people with disabilities, their attitude towards inclusion becomes more positive. It is also important that an inclusive methodology be used.

There are currently 22 disciplines considered paralympic sports whose maximum expression is the Paralympic Games, the largest sports competition for the disabled internationally. Cycling, horse riding, rowing, tennis, table tennis, archery and sailing.

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Paralympic sports: official modalities Athletics One of the paralympic sports deans, present since the first edition of Rome in 1960. It has a lot of pull since it offers a wide range of competitions, events and categories, which allows it to be open to athletes with different disabilities. It includes marathon, track tests, outdoor and combined tests.

Wheelchair Basketball

Possibly the most practiced Paralympic sport in the world. According to the IWBF (International Wheelchair Basketball Federation) more than 100,000 people play wheelchair basketball recreationally or in elite clubs across the globe.

Bocce A game of skill, precision and strategy very similar to petanque and that as a Paralympic sport can be practiced individually, in pairs or in teams.

Cycling With almost thirty years of history and included in Paralympic sports since 1988, adapted cycling is practiced with bicycles, tricycles, tandems or handbikes and both individually and as a team.

Horse riding Therapeutic riding (or equine therapy) for people with disabilities has been practiced for decades although it did not become Paralympic sport until the Atlanta Games in 1996. Depending on their disability, athletes can compete in classical, in tests of skill on the horse and in freestyle with music.

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Wheelchair fencing Another Paralympic sports with more history whose greatest curiosity is that the chair is fixed on the floor which implies a remarkable skill and balance on the part of the players.

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Adapted for athletes with visual disabilities, they all wear masks, while it is the goalkeeper who can see and organize the game. They use a sound ball, so the absence of noise is essential for the development of the game.

Goalball The Goalball was declared Paralympic in 1976 and is aimed exclusively at people with visual disabilities. Absolute silence is imposed during the game: screaming and clapping is only allowed when a goal is scored

Weightlifting (potential lifting) This modality establishes up to ten categories based on the weight of the athletes. It is one of the most widespread Paralympic sports in the world and can be practiced by athletes with spinal injuries, amputations, cerebral palsy or intellectual disabilities.

Judo In Paralympic sports, judo is the one that requires less adaptation than the original sport. It is only specified that the participants start the game grabbed.

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Swimming Swimming was one of eight sports that were practiced in the first Paralympic Games. As with athletics, people with physical, visual or intellectual disabilities and in styles similar to conventional swimming can practice it.

Paratriathlon Based on triathlon, this sport debuted in the Paralympic games in Rio 2016. It is designed for people with various types of disabilities, from wheelchair users or amputees to athletes with visual disabilities. In the cycling part (20 km), athletes can use bicycles, tricycles or handbikes as in Paralympic cycling.

Canoeing The other "rookie" of the Rio Paralympics. It is one of the Paralympic sports practically identical to canoeing for non-disabled athletes.

Rowing Paralympic sport since 2008 (Beijing), its standards are the same as those of conventional rowing but it requires that the material (boats and oars) adapt to the disability of each athlete.

Wheelchair Rugby Aspects of other wheelchair sports such as basketball or ice hockey were included for the elaboration of the regulation of this sport. It is currently a booming Paralympic sport.

Table tennis Another Paralympic sports with minimal adaptation to conventional table tennis. The main change: the ball can give two boats.

Archery and Olympic shooting Both disciplines are open to athletes with disabilities in both the lower and upper body. It is always played in a wheelchair and uses a functional classification system, that is, the categories are established according to the functional capacity of the athletes.

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Candle Since Atlanta 1996, sailing is a Paralympic sport and is one of the few competitions in which there is only one mixed category. Team building depends on boats (one, two or three people).

Volleyball sitting Another Paralympic mixed team sport. Its greatest peculiarity is that players must have the pelvis touching the ground throughout the game.

Adapted tennis 35 years have passed since the creation of this adapted sport, which remains one of the most practiced in the world. In its Paralympic mode, it follows the same rules as conventional tennis, although the ball can bounce twice.

Paralympic sports for everyone Paralympic sports are referred to both conventional sports that can be practiced without modifications by people with disabilities, as well as sports adapted for the disabled and sports created specifically for the disabled.

Seeking the greatest point of balance and equality, Paralympic sports take into account both the disabilities of the athletes themselves and the impact they can have on the game. That is why Paralympic sports take into account the assessment (the disabilities of the players to be able to make the necessary adaptations) and the classification, which serves to group people with similar degrees of disability and so that the sports practice is carried out in the largest equal conditions possible.

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#HEPOSI activities – created in project framework Swimming Beach team games for people with disabilities, created by #HEPOSI youth exchange participants.

The activity is planned in different stages that are described as follows:

Phase 1 – designed for persons 7–12 years old; ▶▶ 2 or more teams 3 to 30 players in each team. ▶▶ Duration: 30 minutes. ▶▶ The competitors run 5m on the sand and then jump in the sea. ▶▶ Competitors must go around obstacles (as shown in the picture) and take one ball from the basket. ▶▶ On the way back they should also go around the obstacles again, run 5m on the sand and give high five to his team mate. ▶▶ Then his team mate have to do the same until everyone passes the activity. ▶▶ The activity is over when the last player finishes.

Phase 2 – designed for persons 13–18 years old; ▶▶ 2 or more teams 3 to 30 players in each team. ▶▶ Duration: 1 hour.

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Phase 2 – activity step by step: ▶▶ Each competitor have one assistant. The competitors run 5 m on the sand and jump in the sea while going around obstacles; ▶▶ They have to dive under the first buoy and then they need to swim until they reach the second buoy and swim arrround it; ▶▶ Take one ball from the basket and go back the same way they came and “gives it” to his teammate. ▶▶ The game ends when the last players finishes.

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Dances This type of activity is aimed at people with different pathologies, Down syndrome, children with autism, blind, deaf, with mental disability, cerebral palsy. etc.

Anyone can do it, although not everyone does it. Many people dance at parties and school festivals with a playful sense, but there is no constant and deep practice that allows apprehending and enjoying the benefits of dance at any stage of life.

Above all, for two reasons; On the one hand, art has ceased to be considered an essential part of the integral formation of people, while, on the other hand, stereotypes about its practitioners keep anyone interested in the activity away.

Table games

This game is developed for any type of person who has a disability or not, so they can get involved and maintain an integration with the group so that they can all be inclusive.

The games would be: ▶▶ Memory game ▶▶ Card game Since they can share in general and sighted people will have the facility of being able to use Trávez del braille.

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Place: It can be developed anywhere, on a table, on the floor and preferably in a large and quiet place.

Performance player: The main tool is creativity, so the game allows people with different types of physical disabilities to be integrated such as paraplegia, deafness, missing limbs.

Material: You can use various materials that are in the room, such as brooms, clothes hangers, chairs, balls, ropes, water bottles, etc.

Objective: Use and develop logical-creative skills, basic motor coordination and spatial organization.

Developing: A minimum of two groups of 4 or 5 people will be needed.

Each group will have 10 minutes to develop a mechanical system that triggers a domino effect, with the difference that they must use the materials found in the room and improvise with them.

Each group will have to create a system that can keep moving for at least 15 seconds.

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Escape room Design

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Step One: Identify Participants Needs User Type: Consider your intended players/users. The premise of this step is that staff may have different needs/expectations than students (learning objectives). Age and backgrounds can influence your decisions in making the game. For example, Media staff and students may be put off from lots of math’s based questions, whereas mathematicians may be put off by physical challenges. Use your initiative and make sure you consider your players to create truly enjoyable experiences.

Time: How long do you want your experience to take? Do you want a quick session to run no longer than 15 minutes or something that is more complex that could span hours, days, or even weeks? Setting this early will allow you to decide just how many/how complex your puzzles should be. You don’t want to design the next ‘DaVinci Code’ if the experience will only last 15 minutes.

Difficulty: This is where consideration of your intended users should play a part. You might want to scale the difficulty of puzzles for different levels of players such as college students, undergrads, postgraduates, doctorial students and staff. Alternatively, you could create a series of experiences and label the difficulty as easy, medium, hard and extreme mode, and allow your players to pick and choose what they would like to try. This approach also gives users an added level of control over their play.

Mode: This referes to how the room is going to be experienced, for example some video games have a timed versus normal play option. You might want a cooperation mode where players work together to solve the problems, or perhaps a competitive mode whereby the winner is the first player to figure out and meet the objectives. This could depend on both the time, and user type amongst other variables.

Step Two: Solidify Objectives The objectives of an escape room can fall into various categories as outlined below. Think carefully about what the purpose of the experience is and how the game might be shaped as a result.

Learning Objectives: Just like any other lesson plan or learning experience, escape requires some thought concerning what are the learning objectives that you are trying to achieve with the session? These objectives can be worked into the theme, its puzzles and mode to help structure the learning plan. Creating tangible learning objectives allows you to evaluate your players learning experience, learning achievements and iteratively redesign if needed at a later date.

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Solo/Multi–Disciplanary: Will your experience be created to solve problems specific to one discipline, or will they be cross-disciplinary? It can sometimes be valuable to bring students together from different fields to explore problems from differentpoints of view.

Soft Skills: Interactive live-action games are by their very nature, great tools for helping to develop soft skills such as communication and leadership.

How will you challenge your players to develop these in your experience?

One method may be to run the experience across multiple rooms, with the answers split between them. The only way to solve this kind of game is for players to communicate their surroundings to the other room and vice versa.

The prototype video at the top of this page uses this design.

Problem Solving: What types of problem solving challenges are going to make the experience interesting to your players? Remember that all learners are different and therefore will enjoy a range of different challenges.

Challenges could be physical (think about searching for an item), intellectual (i.e. algebra or math’s puzzles), or many other variations.

Step Three: Develop your Theme Having a thematic thread which runs throughout the game not only makes the game more enjoyable, but also immerses players into the scenario more fully. A strong theme can make or break the ”fun factor” of an escape room challenge. Depending on your game design there are a range of different theme modes to consider.

Escape Mode: As traditional entertainment escape room theme; get out of the locked room in a set time.

Mystery Mode: Solve the mystery in a set time.

Narrative Design: What is your experience all about? Is it Zombies?

Sherlock Holmes? Or perhaps more subject specific, maybe a natural disaster for disaster management students? The theme that you choose needs to have a compelling story. Good story telling translates into an immersive environment with happy players.

Stand-alone/Nested: Is your experience a one off session or part of a larger, nested experience that can run across months or a year? Nested experiences give a great opportunity to allow people to feel like they are working towards something greater but present challenges such as maintaining player engagement across the wider game.

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Step Four: Develop the Puzzles Puzzle Design: The challenging but fun aspect of creating your experience. Puzzles and riddles make your experience interesting and are ultimately what these experiences are about. When setting puzzles make sure you refer back to the learning objectives which you set for the experience. They should reflect the overall goals of the session.

Instructions/Manuals: Good experiences have clear, set instructions and rules. This is a good time to make a note of anything you don’t want your players to touch or to explain the nuances of your session. Integrating this with your theme can help to set the backstory of your experience. Do the players require extra instructions whilst playing? If so, think about additional ”manuals” that can be made up to look like game props.

Clues/Hints: Everyone gets stuck once in a while, and good Escape Rooms are notoriously hard. Think about how you are going to give clues in the rooms (if at all) and how you would deliver hints whilst outside/away from the players.

Playing a character can help so as not to break player immersion/fantasy. Hints can also be delivered directly via computer/phone to the players if needed.

Step Five: What Equipment do you need?

Location/Space Design: Location, location, location! It really does make an experience, especially if you are expecting to trap people together for a set amount of time you need to ensure there is enough space and it is comfortable to move around in. Don’t play the game in an environment where players may get injured. They are your responsibility (we waive all responsibility for injury…). Wherever possible, make the environment as realistic as you can. Again, this helps to immerse players into the experience.

Physical Props: Puzzle props, red-herrings and general environment props, these are things that you will need to make a compelling and workable experience. Imagine your experience is the same as a play, you’ve chosen your stage and now you need to dress it. Be wary of players who will try anything to complete your experience.

Technical Props: If you are thinking of using technology to enhance your experience then computers, VR, augmented reality, GPS and locationbased identification, can all really bring something to these experiences.

The downside is that as with all technology, you run the risk of things going wrong or to break. Proceed with caution and ensure rigorous testing with these elements. When they work, get ready to see happy players. When they don’t the opposite is true.

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Actors: Imagine getting on board your University’s drama department and letting them help create your experience. Need a zombie or a dying victim? Perhaps a hostage? Either way, having real-life actors helps concrete the experience as further believable. Actors can also be used as timer indicators or can give out hints if they see the players are getting stuck.

Deliver You should now have developed a theme which focuses on a particular element you want to ”teach”, a set of puzzles, and a series of props. The next step is to deliver the experience.

The first thing to do before delivering the experience to the cohort you want to teach is to test the experience with people who have not been part of the design process. This should help to iron out any problems and allow for a smoother event on the day.

As a general rule of thumb, an escape room comprises of four main elements; Briefing The brief should be carried out before players enter the room(s). A good way to frame the brief is to make it thematic to the experience, for example, if your theme is spy based then you could deliver the brief in the form of a top secret document. The brief should always include the amount of time players have to complete the experience. It should also set any specific rules (i.e. You can touch this but don’t touch the fire alarm etc.) as well as any specific technical knowledge the teams may need to complete the experience.

Play Playing through the experience is the fun part. Your players will know by now the rules (set out in the debrief) and can be left to their own devices for the allotted time limit. You may wish to set up some cameras in the room and record the actions of the players. In our experience this can prove entertaining for both the players and the game-master.

De-Brief The deep learning usually goes on within this process. The debrief acts as an opportunity for feedback on the game from the game-master as well as a run through of how to solve the puzzles. The key part of the de-brief process is facilitating the players into providing feedback on the experience.

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things such as team-dynamics, communication, and different ways players approach problems. The game-master should facilitate these conversations and ask the players how this can help them moving forward with their studies.

Re-Set If you are running multiple sessions back to back, make sure you develop a re-set sheet. A re-set sheet is a list of all puzzles/riddles and intractable objectives within your experience that need to be checked over to ensure they are in the correct state before the next group. There is nothing more frustrating than getting half-way through an experience to find something is broken or a puzzle not re-set!

Measure Reflection: You’ve now allowed your intended players to experience your session and it’s the moment of truth. Did they learn anything from your session? If so what? and more importantly did they had fun? What was the most interesting thing? What worked? What didn’t? How would they make it better? Talk about the learning objectives and did they feel that they achieved them? A focus group session/feedback sheet may be useful to help gather information.

Evaluate Learning Objectives: Here is the time to make more formal evaluation of the learning objectives that you may have set for your experience. This can be done through your own preferred methods.

Adjust: Use the feedback to provide informed decisions on how to adjust your experience if needed. This is a good opportunity to use iterative design and development or action-led development to help refine your experiences.

Are escape rooms friendly for people with disabilities? ▶▶ The main key for people with disabilities is to enjoy the experience during the game and to manage to overcome little obstacles they can encounter. ▶▶ Usually we tend to present tricks and puzzles that might involve several senses. ▶▶ We can adapt what we planned according to what kind of visibility is involved.

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#HEPOSI Good practices in the field of sport

Baskin Cremona Where: Italy.

By whom: Baskin Cremona Non-profit Organisation.

This Association was established to spread a culture of sport oriented to the integration between neurotypical and people with disabilities, to promote sport activities specially in the field of basketball, and to foster the integration between neurotypical and people with disabilities with a focus on the dynamics of relationships and psychomotor.

The key factor is the spreading and promotion of Baskin. Baskin (Basket Integrato) means Integrated Basketball, an inclusive and generalised game designed for everyone. Of course, the game takes inspiration from basketball, but it has specific and innovative characteristics. This game has been thought to allow young people, both with disabilities and without, to play in the same team (composed of both males and females). In fact, the Baskin allows the active participation of players with any kind of disability (physical and / or mental) that permits them to throw the ball into the basket.

A regulation, composed of 10 rules, governs the game giving it characteristics incredibly rich in dynamism and unpredictability.

Purpose: to include and integrate everyone in the field of sport.

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Free Sport Voucher.

Where: Iceland.

By whom: Government.

Purpose: Keep students busy and inspired while keeping parents engaged.

What was done – 500 EUR annual voucher per child is given to every family for after school activities. The young people can go and practice different sports for free. This action is part of the so-called Icelandic model which is focused on local participation and promoting music and sports options for students as a way to dry up a teenage culture of drinking and smoking. The state gives young people alternative ways to feel a part of a group, and to feel good, rather than through using alcohol and drugs, and kids from low-income families received help to take part.

Results: students practice sports frequently (at least 4 times a week) and use their time in a healthy way.

Outcome: development of the sport culture among the young people on national level.

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Parapan American Games Where: It takes place every 4 years in a country assigned by the organization, the country has to be from America.

By whom: The organisation Panam Sports, with the support of all American countries.

Parapan American games are games that bring together all types of athletes who have a certain disability. For example: Blind, People who don't have arms, People who don't have legs, etc. Those disabilities that people have for Panam Sports is not a problem, because they think and I think we all think that having a disability is not a limit to play a sport and be the best.

Objective: The objective is to integrate those talented people who have disabilities, who do not feel limited to practice the sport they like the most, who can compete professionally, and may fulfill their dreams. Above all the most important objective is that all people know that by having a disability you cannot be talented, if you are talented you have no limits.

Results: Many people who have disabilities are now happy because they have fulfilled their dream of competing professionally, they no longer have obstacles to show the world how talented they are.

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Sport at workplace.

Where: Japan.

By whom: Japanese Companies.

What: calisthenics exercises done by all workers from craftsmen to CEOs during breaks.

A few examples of exercise carried out in Japanese companies: Triceps Dips, Arm Pulses, Desk Push-Ups, Arm Circles, Wall Push-Ups, Chair Squats, Standing Rear Pulses, Pretend Jump Rope, Calf Raises, Wall Sits.

Goal: to keep a healthy lifestyle in order to be more productive, necessary in Japan as the number of new-borns is very low. So, it is better to slow down the aging of the population.

Results: this practise allows to enlarge the working life of Japanese workers which can't be substituted by immigrants or new-borns which are not enough.

University projects and scholarships Where: Lima, Peru – Toulouse Lautrec University – Programme: Creatividad Enserio (Serious Creativity). ▶▶ Athletes ▶▶ Full scholarship or semester scholarship ▶▶ Multiplier effect Start up Programme Students need to prepare a project based on an innovative idea of sport, social, environmental and cultural in order to graduate.

The group is made up of 5 people from different careers: the process of creation, development, training lasts 4 months. The whole project is carried out through the design thinking method. When developing the project, the university will have to make a follow-up and a committee for 1 year.

Objective: It seeks to use all the creativity to solve problems of the country, has the purpose of promoting and generating innovative solutions that manage to solve the problems of the country and to value their talents.

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Results: Each group of graduates makes their proposals a reality. Many of them have created their organisation or NGO and carried out at the same time their professional career.

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HOW TO BE #BEACTIIVE The aim of these events in our cities is to show that physical activity is necessary to have healthy lifestyle. Our countries are suffering because of the lack of motivation, facilities and interest. However, we create some innovative events to ameliorate this situation. Weekly events in the park for parents and their children. ▶▶ Where – park and open areas ▶▶ Why – to make the people more active ▶▶ Who – parents with their children ▶▶ Which activity – football, yoga, Zumba, table tennis, etc. ▶▶ How – social media, bloggers, posters, everything.

1. Sport Festival ▶▶ Where – park and open areas ▶▶ Why – to show many different sports to the young generation ▶▶ Who – children from 6 to 16 ▶▶ Which activity – multiple ▶▶ How – social media, posters, practical demonstration.

2. Petition to the local authorities to build sports facilities ▶▶ Why – so we can make our countries more active ▶▶ Who – we must be the change for new better future ▶▶ How – we are going to make an online petition and share it to the social media ▶▶ We can put a donation boxes so we can use them for repairing the old and building a new one.

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#HEPOSI Healthy Recipes

Integral part of our healthy lifestyle is the food we are consuming.

Eating a healthy diet is not about strict limitations, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, improving your health, and boosting your mood.

Participants in #HEPOSI training course has created some delicious recipies that you can use in your daily life.

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Vegetables Soup A soul-soothing bowl of delicious homemade vegetable soup, perfect for lunch paired with toastedbread! Super easy and flavorful.

Ingredients ▶▶ 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil ▶▶ 1 large onion, diced ▶▶ 3 cloves garlic, minced ▶▶ 3 medium carrots, diced ▶▶ 3 stalks celery, diced ▶▶ 2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced ▶▶ 2 tsp Italian seasoning ▶▶ 4 cups vegetable broth + 1 cup water ▶▶ 2–15oz can diced tomatoes ▶▶ 1 cup of corn (I used thawed from frozen) ▶▶ 1–15oz can kidney beans, drained and rinsed (optional) ▶▶ 1 bay leaf ▶▶ 1/4 cup parsley, chopped ▶▶ 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice, more to taste ▶▶ 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt, more to taste ▶▶ Freshly ground black pepper.

Instructions Heat oil in a large dutch oven over medium-low heat. Once hot, add onion, garlic and a teaspoon of kosher salt and cook about 8 minutes. Add carrots, celery, potatoes and cook for 5 more minutes, stirring often. Add Italian seasoning and cook for one more minute.

Add broth, water, tomatoes, corn, beans, bay leaf, and several grinds of pepper. Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat to low and simmer, covered until the vegetables are tender, about 35 minutes.

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Remove from heat and stir in parsley and lemon juice. Remove bay leaf and season to taste with salt (do not be shy, I added lots of salt!) and pepper.

Serve hot with toasted bread.

Benefits Soups and broths are a good option both to maintain a good state of hydration (as discussed in the topic of water), and to be consumed as a first course at lunch or dinner. In addition, the Mediterranean Diet Foundation (FDM), recommends to the general population, the consumption of soup between 4 or more times per week, especially for the elderly, since it contributes to reaching the essential liquid contribution to cover the Daily necessities. In addition, due to its high content of vitamins and minerals broths and soups can be consumed at any time of the year, hot in winter that reduce the thermal sensation due to low temperatures; they can also be eaten cold, thus contributing to prevent dehydration, especially in summer.

Pea & broad bean shakshuka Turn a classic brunch shakshuka dish into more of a sharing main course by adding seasonal spring vegetables like peas, broad beans and asparagus

Ingredients ▶▶ 1 bunch asparagus spears ▶▶ 200g sprouting broccoli ▶▶ 2 tbsp olive oil ▶▶ 2 spring onions, finely sliced ▶▶ 2 tsp cumin seeds ▶▶ Large pinch cayenne pepper, plus extra to serve ▶▶ 4 ripe tomatoes, chopped ▶▶ 1 small pack parsley, finely chopped 50g shelled peas ▶▶ 50g podded broad beans ▶▶ 4 large eggs ▶▶ 50g pea shoots ▶▶ Greek yogurt and flatbreads, to serve 52

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Instructions Trim or snap the woody ends of the asparagus and finely slice the spears, leaving the tips and about 2 cm at the top intact. Finely slice the broccoli in the same way, leaving the heads and about 2 cm of stalk intact. Heat the oil in a frying pan. Add the spring onions, sliced asparagus and sliced broccoli, and fry until the veg softens a little, then add the cumin seeds, cayenne, tomatoes (with their juices), parsley and plenty of seasoning and stir. Cover with a lid and cook for 5 mins to make a base sauce, then add the asparagus spears, broccoli heads, peas and broad beans, cover again and cook for 2 mins.

Make 4 dips in the mixture. Break an egg into each dip, arrange half the pea shoots around the eggs, season well, cover with a lid and cook until the egg whites are just set. Serve with the rest of the pea shoots, a spoonful of yogurt and some flatbreads, and sprinkle over another pinch of cayenne, if you like.

Benefits Green vegetables are an important source of nutrients for our health, including vitamins, minerals and fiber. The ideal diet should include the consumption of at least 3 cups per week, which means half a cup per day. ▶▶ Vitamin A: is beneficial for the bone system, regenerates epithelia, mucous membranes and skin; It improves vision, maintains healthy nails, teeth and hair, and strengthens the immune system. ▶▶ Vitamin C: repairs all the tissues of the body, is necessary to form the collagen and helps in healing and the immune system, in addition – it helps the maintenance of bones and teeth. ▶▶ Calcium: regulates the heart rhythm, intervenes in muscle contraction, necessary for blood coagulation and essential for respiratory functions. ▶▶ Fiber: helps the entire digestive system. ▶▶ Chlorophyll: (in the color green) activates the cellular mechanism, detoxifies the body and cleanses the blood of toxins, among other things.

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Creamy chicken & asparagus braise This delightfully summery, low-calorie, low-fat dish packs in plenty of greens and has a yogurt, tarragon and garlic sauce

Ingredients ▶▶ 1 tbsp rapeseed oil ▶▶ 2 skinless chicken breasts (about 150g each) ▶▶ 10 medium asparagus spears, each cut into 3 ▶▶ 1 large or 2 small leeks, well washed and thickly sliced ▶▶ 3 celery sticks, sliced ▶▶ 200ml reduced-salt vegetable bouillon ▶▶ 140g frozen peas ▶▶ 1 egg yolk ▶▶ 4 tbsp natural bio yogurt ▶▶ 1 garlic clove, finely grated ▶▶ ⅓ small pack fresh tarragon, chopped potatoes, to serve (optional)

Instructions Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan and fry the chicken for 5 mins, turning to brown both sides.

Add the asparagus (reserve the tips), leeks and celery, pour in the bouillon and simmer for 10 mins. Add the asparagus tips and peas, and cook for 5 mins more.

Meanwhile, stir the egg yolk with the yogurt and garlic. Stir the yogurt mixture into the vegetables and add the tarragon. Divide into two warm plates, then place the chicken on top of the vegetables. Serve with new potatoes, if you like.

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CEVICHE Ingredients ▶▶ 200 gr fillete fish ▶▶ 6un of lemon ▶▶ 1un of small onion ▶▶ 1un hot chilli Pepper ▶▶ Salt and pepper as you like ▶▶ 1un of boiled sweet potatoes

Instructions 1. Cut the filette fish in cubes.

2. Put in a boul.

3. Add the lemon juice, and salt and lift rest for 10 – 15 minutes.

4. Cut the onion in slice and chilli pepper.

5. Mix everything and server with a some sliced of sweet potato.

This recipe is good to healt because is low in carbohidrates and fresh.

OAT MEAL CAKE Ingredients ▶▶ 1 ½ cup of oat meal ▶▶ ½ cup of flour ▶▶ 3un of ego ▶▶ ½ cup of raising grapes ▶▶ 1 medium apple cut in cubes ▶▶ ½ cup of milk ▶▶ 50gr of butter ▶▶ 50gr of honey or blond sugar or 2 spots of stevia ▶▶ 1 spot of cinnamon 56

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Instructions 1. Mix egg, milk, butter and honey.

2. Mix until Smith.

3. Add oat meal, flour and mix with raising grapes, apple and cinnamon.

4. Bake for 50 minutes This recipe is rich in fibres and low in carbohidrates.

Sweet pepper filled with meat and eggs (Lunch) Ingredients ▶▶ Sweet peppers ▶▶ Chopped meat ▶▶ Garlic ▶▶ Salt and pepper ▶▶ Olive oil ▶▶ Cheese ▶▶ Mozarella ▶▶ Onions

Instructions a. Cut the sweet peppers in two and take out the seeds. Wash the inside for take out the rests. b. Warm the olive oil, add garlic and onions cutted in little pieces and wait till it takes a soft yellow color. Once is cooked, add the meat. c. After that, fill the peppers with the cooked meat. d. Put the cheese on the top and cook in the wave at 200°C for half and hour.

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Quinhua Salad with Beans (Breakfast) Ingredients ▶▶ Sweet pepper (red) ▶▶ Quinhua ▶▶ Corn ▶▶ Black beans ▶▶ Parsley ▶▶ Olive oil ▶▶ Salt and pepper

Instructions a. Put the quinhua in water 3 hours before and let it rest. b. Boil the quinhua and the corn half and hour taking out the wáter of the quinhua c. Filter the quinhua and the corn d. Mix everything and add the olive oil, salt and the parsley.

Baked Tilapia with crushed potatoes Ingredients ▶▶ Potatoes ▶▶ Red peppers in pieces, (2) ▶▶ One spoon of red vinegar ▶▶ Olive oil ▶▶ Tilapia (4 pieces) ▶▶ Green salad (lettuce) ▶▶ Piri piri ▶▶ 6 hot picked peppers ▶▶ Garlic 59

▶▶ Juice from 1 lemon ▶▶ Smoked paprika

Instructions 1. Boil the potatoes until soft, then drain.

2. Spread out on a large baking tray and crush with the back of a big spoon 3. Add the peppers, drizzled with vinegar and oil.

4. Season well and roast for 25 minutes.

5. Put the piri piri ingredients. Pure until fine, then pour into a bowl.

6. Put the fish on a baking tray and put some piri piri sauce. Season and bake for 10 minutes 200°C 7. Serve everything with extra sauce and salad.

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#HEPOSI Non–formal educational activities

Some non-formal educational activities that the participants in #HEPOSI Training course has developed for you and your Group and can be implemented at any event with young people in order to motivate them to #BeActive!

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First activity The first activity refers to the situations where people sometimes fall when they are not prepared for something /cannot see/ can be interpreted the sense of mutual help in the social environment – the participants help with applause so that they can be reached even with closed eyes. The other side is to encourage the admission of people with disabilities.

The activity starts and blindfolded participants must go to the next one who must be clapping, so they can identify where they should go.

The turn is passed until the last participant is reached.

The team that arrives first at the goal without opening its eyes is the winner.

Second activity The second activity expresses the joint work of the social group in a hectic everyday life. Whatever the different people we walk along together – we must strive to synchronize our steps with those of our partner, and the glass of water represents life, and it is important to go smoothly and maintain the balance in the team for not to dissipate the most important resource.

A starting point and a goal are established with a distance of at least 15 meters.

The teams line up in pairs, tying the left leg of one with the right of the other.

The facilitator will seek to arm couples with the following characteristics: a) People of the same height. b) People with different height.

Once the activity has started, every team runs to the point of arrival (their legs tied in and one of them holding the glass of water) and they return to the starting point, untie themselves and hand over the glass to the next couple, until evryteam completes activity.

The team that completes in less time wins.

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Third activity The third activity depicts the achievement of objectives, teamwork, and good communication and organization when carrying out the activities.

People in the line should be lined by height (considering the different opinions of each group) and should pass the ball, keeping it only with their chin and shoulders (it is about communication in the team – to be timely and careful and diligent given to the next participant, and he, in turn, to be an active recipient for this information) also has an impact on the reception of people with disabilities because the participants are blindfolded.

Teams are formed with a minimum of 5 people.

The facilitator tries to alternate the participants with height difference.

The participants will have to pass the ball using the neck and shoulders without using the hands but the ball will start to pass from the last player to the first and this must go to the end of the row.

The activity ends when the first participant returns to his original place.

Forth activity Break the ice!

This activity is perfect for the first action of the day. It is a nice propose to get the participants to increase trust and open themselves. The idea of the ball being transferred from one participant to another refers to the promotion of communication between all participants.

At least 2 lines of at least 3 people who are positioned equally from one another. The two lines are constructed horizontally and symmetrically one against the other. The activity starts on one side and ends at the end of the line or when reaching last participant. The first participant puts the ball under his chin and goes to the next team mate, passes the ball to the second man, again without touching the ball with his hands (only with the chin). This transfers the ball to the last participant, who, after receiving the ball, must run all the way to the finish line.

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Fifth activity This activity aims to explore the personal emotions of each participant in the group. The ball must be given out quickly and the participants express their emotion immediately in order to discover the unforgettable emotions.

In circles, a ball is thrown by the participants to each other. The coach signals and the one in which the ball is, must hand the ball to someone else.

The one who catches the ball last picks one participant in the group who has to guess the emotion behind an expression that the participant does. If the emotion is not guessed, one physical exercise must be done.

Sixth activity The sixth activity encourages teamwork and can show how each participant targets himself as part of the team.

The participants start in a small circle and then run in all directions.

The teachers shout a subject and in ten seconds they have to set the stage talking to each other.

Seventh activity This activity aims to create energy and the ultimate goal is to express that each participant has a specific task that complements the team to complete the circle to create this energy.

The poisoned ball is a traditional game with which children can learn to share, to throw, and increase their agility. It is a competition activity that aims to get all players to become the attacking team. For children to play this game, they will need a soft ball.

How to play the ball?

The poisoned ball is a game that is aimed at children from 6 to 10 years .

To play it, it is necessary to gather 8 to 24 players and it is usually practiced in open spaces.

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is divided in two, surrounding the other team. The child who has chosen first begins the game, throwing the ball and trying to find (or contaminate) one of the components of the other group, which is in the center, without the ball touching the ground or being caught by some of the centrals.

The team that is inside must try to dodge the ball thrown by the other group, without leaving a delimited space.

If he manages to hit a member of the opposing team, the hit player is eliminated from the game. If a player from the center catches the ball, whoever is eliminated is the child who threw the poisoned ball. What this game is about is that whoever has the microbe or is poisoned, try to infect the players of the opposing team.

To continue the activity, the same player who has picked up the ball, hurls it quickly against one of the players of the opposing team, in order to hit him to eliminate him, while they move away to avoid it. If the ball is picked up by any of them, the one that has been thrown is eliminated. The team that manages to eliminate all its opponents will win.

The game ends when all the players are infected by the microbe.

Eight activity The eight activity is about cooperation and teamwork as well as introducing the idea of acceptance for people with disability.The goal is to learn to be sympathetic but at the same time to master emotions when we are in contact with people with disabilities – something like emotional intelligence.

Happy three friends.

It's played by 3 or more teams. Each team has 3 players – one walking on one leg, other playing without hands and the last one – blindfolded. Every team has 3 balls positioned 20 meters away from them. After the start signal "the blind" person goes for the first ball being navigated by his team. After he gets it he has to bring it back and then the next player goes for the second ball and so on. The winner is the team whose players do all the tree tasks as quickly as possible.

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Ninth activity This activity shows that we need to be cautious and observe what is going on around us, also that we need to constantly improve our responses – to be more adequate and timely.

For this activity we only need a ball. The activity can take up to 10 – 15min.

The aim is to get energized, but it can also be used as a name–presenting game. First we have to form a circle with all the participants. Then the person who has the ball should pass it to somebody else representing himself and making an activity movement that all the participants should repeat. After that he passes the ball to somebody else, who as well have to present himself together with a movement. The game continue till everybody presents himself or at least 10 min

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Public Events For the promotion of sports and healthy lifestyle, public events contribute to disseminate key messages to a significant number of people. They are fundamental resources to achieve effectiveness in the campaign, and some tools used to promote these are photos and videos with messages. Some of them can be:

Examples ▶▶ Spread papers with important information about healthy lifestyle; ▶▶ Practice sports in public spaces; ▶▶ Organize marathons in community; ▶▶ Communitarian healthy cooking; ▶▶ Organize dinners with associations to raise awareness; ▶▶ Stream conferences in social media; ▶▶ Give conferences in schools and universities; ▶▶ Capacitate gym participants and trainers to improve their activities; ▶▶ Dance activities in public spaces; ▶▶ Participate with groups that work with disabled people to spread inclusive activities; ▶▶ Include influencers to speak with people in the streets.

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Social Campaigns These are more complex activities that involve specific goals to achieve in medium–long term, and requires more resources to develop. Here are some social campaigns designed by the participants of the training course.

Tips & tricks ▶▶ The objective of the campaign must be clear; ▶▶ The message I want to convey; ▶▶ Target / focused audience; ▶▶ Select the media; ▶▶ What means do I have; ▶▶ With what resources I tell; ▶▶ Duration time; ▶▶ Do I need ”extra” resources?

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Examples “Move your body, take care of your mind” Designed by the Paraguayan team, its main goal is to raise awareness about the importance of developing healthy lifestyle. Specifically, it is focused on the increasement of sport and physical activities done by the population and the nutritional steps to improve health.

It has many approaching dimensions: On social media it is aimed to produce 8 videos during the 5 month that the campaign is going to be developed, they are going to contain useful and motivational information for people to get more involved in the topic. We plan to count on the help some influencers that are athletes or in some way are involve on physical activity and sports. In addition, it has been planned to post photos and text on social media.

In a broader dimension, it has been set some cooperation agreements with at least four local associations that work on the topic, one of them works with disabled people. The goal is to implement actions that increase of promotion healthy lifestyle and integration through physical activity.

Through all the months, responsibilities are segregated, each staff member has a goal to achieve and it is set up one member to check the work done.

“Healthy lifestyle” Designed by the Bulgarian team, it has many activities set up to develop an increase in physical activity realize by the population. Some of them are.

1. MEME: Flayers for social networks have a lot of use and impact.

2. Bloggers / podcast: transmitted by social networks 3. Photo frame: in spaces or public events go with frames of designs with information on the theme, take photos, and disseminate. Make a competition.

4. Infographics: distribute key information in public spaces in infographic format.

5. Smoothies Recipe can be on flayers with few easy steps for the perfect smoothie. To be easy to make for the young people.

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DRAFT QUESTIONAIRE This questionaire can be used as part of a social campaign on the streets of your city. Ask the citizens and find out why they are not #BeActive. Make them think about changing this fact and starting a regular physical activity.

1. Are you doing sport activities every day?

Having intensive physical activity is considered crucial for maintaining a healthy life.

2. How often do you practice sports?

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150 minutes of moderate aerobic activity or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity a week, or a combination of moderate and vigorous activity.

3. Do you consider yourself obese and are you willing to make some lifestyle changes?

The process of self–reflection and consciousness of the problems stands in the beginning of every significant change.

4. Healthy mind, healthy body. Do you agree?

5. Do you check the ingredients of the products you buy?

Nowadays, products of the food industry have many artificial additives, so consuming them should be an informed choice of every individual.

6. Where do you find information about healthy recipes?

Knowing the main sources of information for people could be used for creation of social campaigns and public events that are tailored to their needs and 7. In case you want to begin leading a healthier lifestyle what could motivate you to start?

As motivation is, the moving force behind one’s actions, getting to know peoples believes seems to be of a great importance.

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Project team members and participants in #HEPOSI project Members of the consortium: Bulgarian sports development association

Bulgaria

Mine Vaganti NGO

Italy

Brigada Voluntarios Bolivarianos de PerĂš

Peru

Asociacion Puente Sur

Paraguay

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Partner country

Participants in Training course – Italy, May 2019

Participants in Youth exchange – Paraguay, November 2019

Bulgaria

Yoanna Dochevska

Yoanna Dochevska

Valya Angelova

Suyleyman Suyleyman

Tatyana Hristova

Nikola Zdravkov

Katya Aneva

Katerina Ludzheva

Ventsislav Radkov

Elena Tarakova Musalina Dzhalil Emilia Tsanova Bozhidar Pergelov

Italy

Roberto Solinas

Ismail Sehic

Maria Grazia Pirina

Lorenza Di Labio

Ismail Sehic

Marta Avesani

Faizan Khalid

Silvio Tria

Raffaella Canu

Steven Gheno

Kinga Hodor

Michail Pantazis Gianluca Rossino Francesca Depalmas

Paraguay

Hraste Mirka

Roberto Manuel Marcet Testa

Elisa Boschetti

Isaias Vargas Ramirez

Lourdes Martinez

Rubén Cañete

Roberto Marcet

Fernando Saul Careaga

David Fernandez

Maria Monserat Gonzales Delvale David Fernández Lidia Guerrero Jessica Ortigoza

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Peru

Diego Raul Napan Choquehuanca

Miguel Angel Ayquipa Rosas Gean Pierre Sanchez Yauri

Manuel Jesus Antonio Huaman

Renato Antonio Leon Ferrini

Yesenia Colonio Reyes

Gonzalo Alonso Tello PeĂąa

Maria Malpartida Anculle

Luis Edwar Mendoza Sandoval

Danilea Zegarra Ojeda

Susan Gutierrez Sanchez

Maria Malpartida Anculle

Flor de Luz Altamirano Juro

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Disclaimer This Handbook constitutes one of the deliverables of the BSDA–led “Health Practices for Own Self–Improvement /HEPOSI/” project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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Authors and researchers Yoanna Dochevska, Bulgaria Stefka Djobova, PhD, Bulgaria Ivaylo Zdravkov, Bulgaria Roberto Solinas, Italy Jorge Galiano, Peru Roberto Marcet, Paraguay

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ISBN: 978–619–90776–8–9 In this Manual have been used materials from all project events and public recourses and information. © HEPOSI, BULGARIAN SPORTS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, 2020 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.

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