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F.L.O.W.S. - Focus on Healthy Life, Organisations and Well-being in Society

1st semester (Autumn) at VIVES Kortrijk

In health care organisations, in education, in applied social community services but also in enterprises and companies, the commitment to well-being, positive health and vitality management seems to become more than just a hot topic! Creating connections, active dialogue capacity building and healthy life style interventions contribute to and are key components for a pro-active, preventive and sustainable society.

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F.L.O.W.S. is an interdisciplinary minor for students Applied Social Studies, Health Care, Education and Well-being and Vitality Management.

Key words: positive health, social health care, prevention, intervention mapping, healthy lifestyle, well-being and involvement, good practices, social skills/connection (convict prevention, aggression, bullying) and coaching.

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Field of study

Study type

  • Exchange programme

Amount of credits

  • 30

Where can I study this?

Startmomenten

  • Autumn

Language of education

  • English

Contacts for this study

Objectives

At the end of the F.L.O.W.S. course, in the context of the international classroom, the participants

  • will be able to explain the variety in active and healthy lifestyles within Europe

  • will know the influence of the EU and/or other global organisations on the flow of an active and healthy lifestyle

  • will be able to interpret and give information about the health care organisation and health care settings in Belgium

  • will have expanded their own international competences in a personal and professional way

  • will organise a health care session to improve and/or motivate the healthy lifestyle in a specific population group

  • will solve a specific case, working within an interdisciplinary group of students

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New Programme

The lecturers of Applied Social Studies in Kortrijk, Education in Bruges, Kortrijk and Torhout, Health Care in Bruges, Kortrijk and Roeselare and Well-being and Vitality Management in Kortrijk, are proud to present you the new programme: F.L.O.W.S.

This programme is developed for incoming students from our partner universities and university colleges, with which we have an interinstitutional agreement, as well as our own students.

Students

Welcome to Kortrijk: studying and living

Welcome to the VIVES campus Kortrijk for the international classroom courses. Kortrijk (https://www.kortrijk.be/vrije-tijd/toerisme/andere-talen/english/tourism-kortrijk/ discover-kortrijk) is a city where you can enjoy the heritage of the past and where at the same shopping is fun. The city of approximately 75,000 inhabitants is situated in West-Flanders in Belgium.

Students

What do we offer?

  • A 5 month interdisciplinary program (30 ECTS) in English for students Applied Social Studies (social work, socio-educational care work, public safety and applied psychology), teacher training and health (nursing and midwifery) and business management (more precisely well-being and vitality management).
  • One full semester – autumn semester: September – January
  • Flow to a healthy lifestyle starting throughout the lifespan from pre-birth over early childhood, childhood, adolescence, adulthood till active seniors and elderly.
  • Interdisciplinary classroom
  • Focus on international competences
  • An enthusiastic teaching staff
  • Highly qualified mentors for practical experience (traineeship)

The program aims to be a balanced mixture of theory, research, practice, reflectionand personal work focusing on the ow to a healthy lifestyle starting throughout the lifespan from pre-birth over early childhood, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, till the active seniors and the elderly.