EDUCATION FOR HEALTHY EATING IN THE ACTUAL CURRICULAR CONTEXT - A CASE STUDY.

A healthy diet is the easiest way to protect the individual's health, having a series of benefits which starts from ensuring the whole needed palette of nutrients for the body and ends with relieving the symptoms of diseases, such as diabetes or hypertension. In this respect, it is important to train the children to eat healthy foods, the schools playing a very important role in the education and promotion of healthy eating among young students. One of the projects - coordinated by Valahia University Targoviste - that proposed training activities for teachers and learning activities for students, having as central target developing healthy and sustainable habits which must be acquired by young students related to healthy eating, is the Erasmus+ project entitled: "EduForHealth - Let's make it better! Raising the awareness of the triad nutrition - health - food safety in school education". In the frame of the abovementioned project, an accredited continuous professional development program was organized, being oriented on topics (learning units) concerning Food Science, divided so that - one the one hand - to provide to learners, regardless of their level of education, an extensive coverage of the area, and - on the other hand -, to fulfill the teachers' expectation and needs, as it was concluded during the first project activity focused on analyzing the curricula related to Nutrition, Health and Food Safety. The activities were designed from theoretical and practical point of view, having in mind that the experiential learning is meaningful, and, at the same time, there can be developed long time skills for the actors involved in the educational process. The paper underlines the results of a case study designed to identify the conditions that influenced the implementation of the learning units in the classroom, taking into account both educational levels: primary and secondary. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]