The 3rd day of the Healthnic workshop is dedicated to deepen how an healthy diet, both on daily and weekly basis, can be enriched in term of variety and taste from the use of local products. We ask to local farmers and community-based organizations to present their work, specifically concerning the how-to empower local farmers.
We focus on the connection between the re-discover of local traditional and healthy ingredients, the strengthen of local community, the economical positive feedback of a healthy and wealthy territory, the benefit of a balanced diet, the re-interpretation of traditional recipes dedicated to the fundamental re-use of alimentar left-overs. After these debates and share, we all cooked together, combining left-overs with potatoes from the mountains producers, ending up in a tasty dinner with 5 different colorful version of the traditional „gnocchi” (potato dumpling).
Quoting Francois de la Rochefaucauld, „eating is a basic need, but tasty and clever eating is a work of art”.
If you want to know more, visit the project’s platform at www.healthnic.eu and download the guide to learn how to build and run an Healthnic workshop here:
http://healthnic.eu/guide

Diciannove held the first day of the healthic workshop in Luserna San Giovanni (To). Despite a terrible rain-storm, the atmosphere was warm. After introducing the rules of the workshop in term of respect, dignity and equality of all participants, the day was dedicated to build up a community climax through some icebreakers and sociometric games. We started to familiarize between a variety of origins, which included Male, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Guinea, Torino, Pinerolo, Sardinia, Benevento, Bussoleno and Genoa.
We shared some preferred recipes, then cooked and eat together to taste the flavor of the territory. Because as Jean Brunhes said, “When it comes to eating, territories have to be incorporated”.
If you want to learn more about the healthic workshop, visit the project web platform at www.healthnic.eu and download the guide here: http://healthnic.eu/guide

The moment all the Healthnic team was waiting for has come. We are very proud to present the Practical Guide to Healthnic Diet Workshops, a manual that will help professionals working with intercultural groups to organise workshops where participants can acquire cooking, healthy eating, language, cultural awareness and ICT skills.

You can either download it in PDF and read it at your own pace or surf through its different parts online.

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

During the LTTA meeting in Syros all the participants were trained and collaborated on topics related to food culture and healthier eating. They were also trained on digital storytelling method in order to express themselves on topics related to food. All this accumulated experience is the base for the digital videos that the participants created at the end of the seminar and will be uploaded here. The first video describes the experience of the LTTA seminar. Stay tuned because more videos will follow.

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Vardakeios School, ITT and MRSN worked since October 2017 on the writing of draft version of “The practical Guide to Healthnic Diet workshops”. It was a challenging task as the representatives of the organisations had to collaborate from a distance with the exception of a 5- day meeting in February in Liverpool where they all had the chance to work together closely.

The Practical Guide is divided in two parts: the theoretical and the implementation part.

A trainer that would like to organize a Healthnic workshop can find in this Guide useful information about the importance of participatory learning, activities on group building and cultural exchange, social inclusion issues, references on nutritional education, home economics and active citizenship.

Most importantly on the implementation part there are step by step instructions on how to organize a cooking workshop and how to enrich the process with detailed instructions on digital storytelling activities that will involve participants in the production of digital stories about food.

At the end of the Guide there are also four annexes that offer information about digital storytelling, rules of nutritional diet, culinary terminology, food vocabulary and uses of herbs and spices.

The Guide is helpful to professionals working with vulnerable target groups such as refugees, immigrants and unemployed people but also to anyone that would like to acquire healthy eating habits by being open-minded to traditional food experiences.

During summer the Guide will be edited in order to be uploaded on the e-platform and later on it will be translated in Greek, Italian and Polish.

Partners of Healthnic Diet project are closely collaborating for the preparation of the Guide. Since the Kick off meeting:
-A transnational meeting was held in Liverpool on 19th-23rd February 2018 with the main goal to agree on the structure of the Guide and to give feedback on the material that was already produced individually. Five staff members of Vardakeios, MRSN and ITT worked hard for 5 days in order to prepare an informative and attractive manual. After the feedback from all partners it will follow the editing and the translation of the Guide in partner`s languages. We expect the Guide to be uploaded on the e-platform by the end of September.
-All project partners are eager to attend the training for trainers meeting (LTTA) in Syros on 25th-29th June 2018. A 5 days seminar in Vardakeios School will give the chance to participants to acquire cooking and ICT skills in a multicultural environment in order to organize their own local Healthnic Workshops.
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