Call for partners

"AROUND THE DESK"

ABSTRACT

Associazione Italiana Fisioterapisti (A.I.FI.) is an Italian non-profit trade association born in 1994
thanks to ministerial decree n. 741 and since then is committed to represent and promote the
profession of physiotherapists and to help the population to reach the highest level of health
condition. A.I.FI. Piemonte e Valle D'Aosta is a regional part of the national association and counts
more than 1000 registered physiotherapists.
Www.piemontevalledaosta.aifi.net
www.facebook.com/aifipvda

Associazione Eufemia aims to promote healthy and sustainable practices between youngsters and
organizations at local and international level. It is running European projects since 2010 and its
members gained rich and wide experience by coordinating several projects in the field of youth
(youth exchanges, training courses and EVS, but also projects with schools to avoid droppouts and
to promote social and cultural inclusion).
Www.eufemia.eu
https://www.facebook.com/AssociazioneEufemia

Project description

A.I.FI. aims to promote healthy practices between scholars of the secondary school and all the
professionals who are connected to them: teachers, psychologists, educators, coaches and
physiotherapists will share their knowledge and experience in the interest of the students' condition
and their relationship with the school, the class, the desk.

In the 6-days-programme, the participants will:

 share their competences and discuss about the meaning of prevention, healthy behaviors,
good practices in schools and environments where young students live;
experience "La schiena va a scuola" project and obtain the basic instruments to duplicate it
in their home countries (theoretical session will be followed by activity in small groups
where an Italian professionist will show the practical part in class with young students: tips
about how to reach and preserve a good posture);
prepare contribution for A.I.FI. Annual Scientific Regional Congress and attend to some
sessions in English language (in order to guarantee the highest quality of the project it is
requested that every professionals will prepare a short discussion validated by scientific
studies and reports).
meet partners from all over Europe, to strenghten their international network for future
projects.

Aims:

to promote healthy conditions in growing-up students

to promote the good practice exchange among different countries and different professions
to encourage the dissemination of scientific knowlegde among the population
to deepen the knowledge of the Erasmus+ programme
to promote non- formal education methodologies and tools
to increase the network at international level

Participants' profile:

Each group is constituted by 3 participants involved in the work with youth and with particular
focus to healthy behaviours among youngsters. We do consider equally valid themes and practices
involving physical, emotional and/or mental wellbeing.
Two participants should be 24+ years old, since they have to be graduated and/or to have at least a
minimal work experience; the third member could be younger as we consider useful also the
participation of students that are acquiring competence for their future work.
Moreover, it is requested a good knowlegde of the English language.

Location, duration and dates:

The project will start in December 2017 with the preparation phase and research in each country,
while the mobility will take place in Turin in April 2018.
A first follow up phase will be concluded in July 2018.

During the mobility the participant will be accommodated at Open 011, our usual venue for hosting
international groups http://www.comune.torino.it/infogio/open/
Food and accommodation are 100% covered. The travel budget for every country can be found in
the Erasmus+ guide.

Already interested? Fill in this Partner request form latest by 13th of April 2017
http://bit.ly/2nOKiv8
Collaboration with the partners:

We are looking for partners that (READ CAREFULLY!):

are interested in the topic
are working with group of young people
will be able to prepare a short dissertation connected to the main theme and supported by
scientific studies (better if published in official magazines like Pubmed, Cochrane etc.). The
title and the topic will be discuss among all the groups in order to avoid repetitions
will be able to disseminate the results of the project among other members and
professionals
will be able to apply the knowledge and competence gained during the project to their daily
work/activity

Working methods and programme:

The program will combine various methods from non-formal education: workshops, presentations,
indoor and outdoor activities, team builders, discussions, focus groups and parallel sessions.
Following you can find a draft of the activities.

Day 0 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Last

day
A Project Thematic La schiena Good Regional Follow up
r presentation workshops va a practices Congress D
r run by the scuola: day with E
i participants of practice English P
Getting to Evaluation
v contributi A
know each
a ons from R
other
l the T
(professional) Preparation
s participa U
of the
nts R
Congress
Meeting The city of Theoretical Feedback Free Final party E
the group Turin and its preparation afternoon S
and getting inhabitants for "La
to know (focus on schiena va a
each other school scuola"
(personal) system)
Further details:

The partner organization will be asked to select the participants and to contribute actively in the
process and the workshops to be developed. The partners should also be interested in working with
the guidelines that will emerge from the courses; meaning that they should implemented it on their
future projects.
Travel reimbursement for participants will be done on the real costs basis and not exceeding the
maximum lump as detailed in the Erasmus+ Programme guide pages 94-96.
We will cover visa costs, according to the identified costs in the partner questionnaire.

If you are interested, fill in this Partner request form latest by 13th of April 2017
http://bit.ly/2nOKiv8

A.I.FI. Piemonte e Valle D'Aosta Association Eufemia

Contact person:

Paola Alessandria - paola.alessandria@yahoo.it - +393884711657

Pasquale Lanni youth@eufemia.eu - +393408311334