Directives developed by the project team:

1. TARGET GROUP are people with difficulties in the field of internet usage, household management, reading comprehension. In addition, it’s important for them to be people from rural areas. In the age range of 45-65, both women and men. We anticipate the participation of both professionally active and passive.
2. IDEA (GUIDING THOUGHT) to help raise the basic competences of the group of people mentioned above is “Healthy lifestyle”.
3. MODULES IN THE CURRICULUM ARE:
   • Healthy cuisine (local products, processing, savoir vivre, bio products, informed consumer)
   • Home garden (eco cultivation and processing)
     Sport/fitness
   • Household management (home budget, organization of housework)
   • Internet usage (registration of home visits, administrative matters, online
   • shopping, obtaining information)
   • Natural cosmetics and chemicals
4. THE CURSE WILL BE CARRIED OUT DURING WEEKENDS IN THE NUMBER OF 240 HOURS (15 weekends/meetings, 8 hours a day).

REALITY AFTER RECRUITMENT:

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a target group was recruited, consisting of:

1. 12 people living in rural areas – 80% and 3 people living in urban areas – 20%

2. 15 people aged 45-65 – 100%

3. 10 women – 66,7%, 5 men – 33,3%

4. 6 professionally active people – 40% and 9 professionally passive people – 60%.

In total, we managed to complete 240 hours of the course in 15 weekends, on the turn of NOVEMBER 2020 – SEPTEMBER 2021. Although we did not consider the form of online classes, we were forced to adapt the course to the prevailing sanitary and epidemiological conditions. The result was 162 hours of online course (27 days) and 78 hours of stationary course (13 days).

Learning to use the Internet conducted online turned out to be the biggest challenge for both participants and teachers. However, despite many fears, all participants coped well with this task. As a result of their joint work, the website of the course was created:
https://budzetwpigulce.wixsite.com/my-site
and a fan page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3694935447211481

Detailed educational goals that we have achieved:

Healthy cuisine
Participant of the course:

• learned the principles of healthy eating,
• learned and uses the healthy eating pyramid,
• appreciates the importance of local production of agri-food products,
• knows the difference between products marked with the “BIO” certificate,
• chooses and uses BIO articles in their life,
• does not use highly processed products,
• learned and uses the term “informed consumer”.

Home garden (eco-cultivation and gardening)
Participant of the course:

• knows how and when to set up a home garden and what work should be done in it before sowing seeds to achieve a good harvest,
• knows how to prepare the soil for growing plants,
• knows what plants to choose for local environmental conditions,
• knows how to run a garden to obtain organic and healthy vegetables and fruits,
• knows which plants to grown in a home garden,
• learned when to sow seeds and how to plant vegetable seedlings,
• knows how to cultivate vegetable crops in the garden,
• knows when to harvest from the garden,
• learned recipes for homemade preserves using harvest from the home garden,
• knows how and when to make jam or salad for your home pantry,
• knows how to store the harvested vegetables so that they say in home supplies for as long as possible.

Sport
Participant of the course:

• learned the importance of working out to maintain a good condition of body and spirit,
• learned and applies the principles of safe training (Warming up, stretching, staying hydrated),
• learned the rules of safe training to reduce the risk of injury,
• is able to choose the type of physical activity appropriate for age and physical limitations,
• is able to properly select the loads associated with physical effort.

Household management
Participant of the course:

• knows what a home budget is,
• is able to plan expenses and properly manage money,
• knows and understands the need for rational management of the available material and financial resources, and understands the need to save money,
• can plan activities during the day or week so that there is enough time for work and rest,
• writes down purchases and makes sure to buy what is written down, excluding advertisements and bargains – informed consumer.

Internet usage
Participant of the course:

• knows how to use the Internet; via computer, tablet, and phone,
• knows how to handle secure internet payments,
• learned and applies the rules of safe behawior on the Internet,
• knows how to register an online doctor’s appointment,
• learned the ways of dealing with administrative matters via the Internet – knows what a trust profile is (a profile with legal information for use in administrative matters online in Poland),
• can do online shopping by choosing the cheapest offers,
• knows how to obtain information from the Internet, uses the online library.

Natural cosmetics and chemicals
Participant of the course:

• knows what natural cosmetics and chemicals are,
• knows how to make basic cosmetics and chemicals at home,
• knows the importance of using natural products for the environment,
• learned the cost of producing basic cosmetics and chemicals.

After analizing the evaluation survey, it appears that the course was very much needed for its participants and that many of them will continue to develop. The „home garden” module was rated the highest.
Below is a detailed summary of the survey: