Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth

“Start now!: Strategic partnership for health promotion among youth” was a project in the frame of “Erasmus+” Programme Key Action 2. The main objective of the project was to promote a healthy lifestyle among youth off all ages. The project was implemented in the period from March 2017 to December 2018, in three European countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus and Poland. The project aimed to implement in different youth organizations innovative methods of non-formal education about health awareness. The result of the implemented methods will be a change of the attitudes of young people to more healthy and expanding their consciousness of health promotion. The project was implemented by the Health Related Organization for Promotion and Prevention "HOPP" from Opole, in partnership with: Bulgarian Sports Development Association from Sofia and Social Policy and Action Organization from Nicosia. The implementation preceded by statistical analysis conducted among project’s participants, which consequently became a base for developed publication. Tools for achieving these goals were series of international meetings, as well as pilot training course, which was attended by youth workers. The result of these activities was the innovative, based on a modular system, non-formal method of working with youth, which was implemented in different organizations and institutions in the project countries. The method was implemented through Non formal Education Centers – “NEC”, managed by partner organizations. Their main task is to disseminate of developed results among local youth organizations. The established method was fully described in details in the project’s publication and distributed in European institutions. For the widest possible dissemination the Method was settled in the form of an interactive and international youth Portal. Closing action of the project were Open Days presenting the results of a strategic partnership.