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Healthnic Diet presentation on Cyclades Preservation Fund workshop

anna — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:28:43 +0000

The Vardakeios School participated on the environmental workshop organized by the Cyclades Preservation Fund in Posidonia, on Syros island on the 30th of October 2019. The participants were members of environmental organisations from 13 Cycladic islands. The Vardakeios School presented Healthnic Diet project and focused on the benefits of nutritious diet based on local traditional products with low energy footprint. Main emphasis was given on the e-platform and especially on the Practical Guide and the Toolkit which are the two main tools for organizing Healthnic workshops. It was also pinpointed the contribution of the Guide on the zero waste effort as it gives advice on how to preserve food and use leftovers in new recipes. Participants were interested to listen on the work done with multicultural groups and asked for more details about the project and its outputs.

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3rd Italian Multipler Event

anna — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 11:42:24 +0000

Diciannove held its third multiplier event among Condiviso members in Genoa. The participants closely followed the presentation of the project and were very impressed by the learning-by-doing approach that, during the workshops, also became socializing-by-doing. Sharing an experience like cooking together, sharing a meal, reliving the experience through digital stories cancels the differences and shows that people are more similar than what it might appear. The participants entered the project results and discovered the Healthnic Laboratories as a place where people acquire knowledge and skills on how to follow a healthy diet, how to choose foods and how to share individual awareness through a technological tools, to name just a few. Diciannove is proud to have contributed to spreading the contents of this project.

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Irish Multiplier Event

anna — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:20:09 +0000

HEALTHNIC “Healthy and ethnic diet for inclusion” is a 2-year Erasmus+ funded project that promotes healthy eating based on traditional food from different ethnic cuisines. The main target groups come from various backgrounds including refugees, immigrants, long-term unemployed and indigenous groups, who wish to develop their food and cooking skills and interact in a multinational environment.
The coordinator of the project is the Vardakeios School of Hermoupolis (Syros, Greece), and partner organisations are: Danmar Computers LLC (Rzeszów, Poland), Diciannove Società Cooperativa (Genoa, Italy), Institute of Technology Tralee (Ireland) and Merseyside Refugee Support Network (Liverpool, UK).
A multiplier event was held in the TIRC Centre on the 25th of September, where Dee Doody from “Lets get cooking with Dee” gave a demonstration of healthy cooking dishes during the event. The participants were the TIRC’s women’s group who love to cook together. Theresa Elumelu was one of the participants and said: “The project was made our day because the information given made our women feel empowered about the food project.”
To find out more about the project please visit the website for the project: http://healthnic.eu or http://ittralee.ie

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Download the 4th Newsletter!

anna — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 15:55:34 +0000

Read the 4th Newsletter of Healthnic Diet project with the last news on the project!

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MRSN Healthnic Multiplier – Menu of the day

anna — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:38:52 +0000

“Entrée/Starters”
6 September 2019 Seana welcomed everyone to the MRSN Healthnic Multiplier event held in the Chas Rawes Hall at Asylum Link Merseyside. In attendance were more than 40 participants from Refugee and Asylum organisations, the Local Authority, others from the health and education sector and faith organisations.
Margaret showcased an overview of Healthnic with a Power Point presentation highlighting key aspects of the Healthnic project with photographs from across the two years. This included training and meetings with the four European partners from Greece, Italy, Ireland and Poland, the integrated workshop at John Archer Hall exploring healthy and diverse cuisines in a safe and friendly atmosphere, and how to develop digital stories in an inclusive and fun way. Attention was drawn to healthy eating emphasising the medicinal and nutritional values of herbs and spices and the benefits of using local and seasonal produce such as taste and value for money.
The Healthnic website was introduced – Guide, Toolkit and Digital Stories. All participants were encouraged to visit the website, download the Guide and use the Toolkit to develop a similar workshop in their own organisations.
“Sides”
Then Ewan introduced the digital story making process and pointed out the simple method used to encourage the development of digital and language skills, all of which increased the confidence of the Healthnic workshop participants. A selection of digital stories was then shown including some produced by our European partners.
“Main Course”
The stage was now set to bring the Healthnic workshop to the days event. Ruth and Jannatul took everyone on a journey from their Bangladeshi and Pakistani talking through with a live demonstration of how to create amazing lentil Dahl, roti an chapatti. The hall filled with an amazing aroma of coriander, chilli and garlic wetting everybody’s appetite for the lunch to follow.
This cheap, nutritious and very tasty dish was served to all participants who ate together replicating the flavour of the Healthnic workshop that took place in November and December last year.
“Extras”
During lunch Margaret demonstrated making a selection of herbal salts with a mix of rosemary, parsley and mint with raw salt from Spain. All participants were invited to have a go.
“Pudding”
Everyone was encouraged to stay connected with Healthnic by using the Guide and Toolkit with their own groups and in their communities.
“Take-away”
A ‘lunch bag’ was given to each participant to take home:
– Cooking workshop pamphlet
– Menu for Dahl
– Menu for Herb Salt
– Menu and information leaflets donated by Unicorn Co-operative Grocery
– Small jar of Herb Salt – Parsley; Rosemary; Mint; Mint & Garlic

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2nd Multiplier Event by Vardakeios School in Athens at Caritas Hellas

anna — Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:19:10 +0000

The Vardakeios School organized on the 11th September 2019 the 2nd Multiplier Event of the Healthnic Diet project in Athens at Caritas Hellas. It was an evening where professionals from different fields that work with refugees (sociologists, language teachers, workshop facilitators) had the opportunity to be informed about the intellectual outputs of the project (Practical Guide and Toolkit), the digital videos that were produced but also to ask questions related to the implementation of the Healthnic Diet workshops. On the second part of the event they had the chance to participate in a cooking session and to experiment with fruit, vegetables and spices in order to create their own Mandala based in a specific value (solidarity, acceptance, unity) and then to prepare as a group a salad with the materials they have already used.All the participants expressed their content on the knowledge gained and showed interest in organizing a Healthnic workshop. The facilitators assured them that they will be available to provide guidance if needed.

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The English Multiplier Event

anna — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 11:17:12 +0000

Come and join Merseyside Refugee Support Network (MRSN) and colleagues from Asylum Link Merseyside for our Healthnic Celebration and dissemination event on Friday 6th September from 11.30am…

Find out how our healthy eating and community cohesion project has brought refugee and local communities together – it has worked so well we want to share the experience and hope other groups will give it a try!

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FRIDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER – FROM 11.30AM
@ St. Anne’s, 7 Overbury Street, LIVERPOOL L7 3HJ

“Menu” = Agenda

– “Starters” = Welcome and Overview about our Healthnic project + sharing our Project Guide and Toolkit
– “Sides” – Digital stories from our participants
– “Extras” = A wee taste of using natural salts with added herbs and spices (not too much though!)
– “Main Course” = Cooking demonstration and lunch – Rice and dahl with a twist (yummy)
– “Pudding” = Keeping connected and using the Guide and Toolkit for your own groups and communities.

Come and join Merseyside Refugee Support Network (MRSN) and colleagues from Asylum Link Merseyside for our Healthnic Celebration and dissemination event on Friday 6th September from 11.30am…

Eat well, be nice, share, live…

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Manuale d`uso, Zestaw narzędzi, Εργαλειοθήκη Healthnic Diet

anna — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:23:00 +0000

We have now available online the Healthnic Diet toolkit translated from English in Italian, Greek and Polish. Don`t miss the opportunity to explore the free web-based interactive manual for professionals who would like to organise Healthnic Diet workshops.

If you are a professional working with refugees or multicultural groups you have also the opportunity to participate in Multiplier Events in Athens, Liverpool and Tralee and get more information about the intellectual outputs (Practical Guide and Toolkit) and to be involved in experiential learning activities.

For further information about the Toolkit and/or the project please contact us at: info@healthnic.eu or find us on social media

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Don`t miss the 2nd Healthnic Diet Multiplier Event in Athens

anna — Tue, 27 Aug 2019 14:42:08 +0000

The Vardakeios School is organizing a 2nd Multiplier Event of “HEALTHNIC: Healthy and Ethnic Diet for Inclusion” project on the 11th of September 2019 from 18.00-22.00 in order to disseminate the intellectual outputs (Practical Guide and Toolkit) in organisations based in Athens that support refugees. The Event will be held in Caritas Hellas Center in Neos Kosmos (Rene Pyo 2, Neos Kosmos). Caritas Hellas is an organization that supports refugees by providing accommodation, job and financial counselling, language courses and several other activities for social integration.
“HEALTHNIC: Healthy and Ethnic Diet for Inclusion” is an Erasmus+ project that started on October 2017 and now that finalizes its activities presents to you its work. The main target groups come from various backgrounds including refugees, immigrants, long-term unemployed and indigenous groups, who wish to develop their food and cooking skills and interact in a multinational environment. The workshops enable participants to acquire basic skills such as home economics and healthy eating education, supported with food and nutrition glossaries and food preparation methods. In addition, participants gain ICT skills and create information/educational digital stories focused on the knowledge gained of both food culture, traditions and healthy eating.

The Vardakeios School invites professionals that work with refugees to participate in this presentation that focuses on:
• the structure and available information of the Healthnic e-platform
• the intellectual outputs that were created during the last two years: the Practical Guide and the Toolkit that offer useful material and guidance for any professional that would like to organise a Healthnic workshop
• the Digital Storytelling Method and the videos that were created by the participants of the local workshops
The participants will have the opportunity to participate in culinary creations of dishes and emotions
For more information and registrations contact us at: 0030 2281082573 / 0030 6936497398or send your email at : vardakeios@gmail.com

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The Toolkit for organizing a Healthnic Diet workshop is now available online

anna — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 16:22:53 +0000

We are happy to present the Healthnic Diet Toolkit, a free web-based interactive manual for professionals who would like to organise Healthnic Diet workshops. These workshops give the opportunity to intercultural groups- especially to refugees, immigrants and vulnerable target groups- to acquire cooking, healthy eating habits, language, cultural awareness and ICT skills.
The Toolkit includes a range of educational resources with emphasis on participatory learning activities, do`s and dont`s, digital stories, workshop descriptions, testimonies, photos, comments and advice from the facilitators and participants that took part in the local Healthnic workshops that were organized in the five partner countries last Autumn.
It also reflects the work that has already been done on the creation of the Practical Guide which is an interdisciplinary manual with various thematics and step-by-step instructions. Together with the Toolkit it can be a useful aid for facilitators of such workshops.
For further information about the Toolkit and/or the project please contact us at: info@healthnic.eu or find us on social media

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