Robotics; As a Tool to Prevent Bullying Erasmus Project

Project Title

Robotics; As a Tool to Prevent Bullying

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : School Exchange Partnerships

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Inclusion – equity

Project Summary

Bullying among children is a global challenge, with numerous detrimental side effects that have broader societal implications. Both victims and perpetrators of bullying suffer across various dimensions, including personal social development, education, and health, with negative effects persisting into adulthood. Bullying is also a serious concern for policymakers and child practitioners. High rates of bullying amongst children should raise warning flags regarding child rights’ failings. Moreover, due to its damaging effects on learning and behaviour, bullying in schools could reduce the effectiveness of public investment in children’s education and may incur costs through riskier behaviour in the future. It is a fact that nobody is ever born a bully that bullying is a learnt behaviour which could be changed. The project will focus on physical bullying, virtual bullying cyberbullying and social exclusion (being purposefully ignored or excluded from groups). For this purpose, we will start by training our teachers first. Our teachers who receive the intended training will work one-on-one with the students after the mobility.

Therefore, we aim to :
-help headteachers and school staff, mums and dads
-publish complaints policy on bullying at each school
-Using Robotics to increase the students’ academic achievements
-Guide the bullied students together with school physiologists
-give information to know about pupil behaviour and bullying in schools
-use Robotics provided skills to prevent before bullying goes through criminal blames
-enable the transfer of guidance for schools on preventing and replying to bullying
-PREVENTING BULLYING VIA ROBOTICS by exchanging the good practices/experiences
-help bullies recognize why they keep in the action and resolve the fundamental reasons
-support victim students with Robotics that will provide problem-solving skills&self esteem
-enrich the professional profile of teachers involved, connecting the world of school with the world outside
-tackle bullying at the earliest opportunity and not allow it to escalate to a point where a pupil suffers emotional or physical distress

“Robotics As a Tool to Prevent Bullying” has a duration of 24 months and involves 6 partner schools from 6 countries (Sweden, Portugal, Turkey, Romania, Estonia and Slovenia) as
*Storåskolan(coordinator)
*OS Sola Breg
*Manisa Fen Lisesi
*Kuressaare Gümnaasium
*Colegiul National Tudor Vladimirescu
*Agrupamento de Escolas da Batalha
Each mobility will last 5 days(2 days for travel). Partners will participate with 4 STEM teachers to be able to create safe, disciplined environments where teachers are able to teach and fulfil their potential.

Our planned activities will consist of non-formal, informal methods such as Interactive workshops/training courses, peer to peer activities, excursions/cultural trips, cooperations with universities and public organizations, Face to face meetings, Counselling, Cognitive analytical and behavioural therapy, team building activities/icebreakers and energizers, questionaries

Thanks to the methods above,12 aims of the project as aforementioned will be achieved after 6 staff mobilities as;
C1(SE): analyzing all types of bullying
C2(PT): Cyberbullying
C3(SI): Cyberbullying
C4(TR): Physical Bullying
C5(RO): Verbal bullying
C6(EE): all types of bullying

Sweden, Romania, Slovenia, Turkey, Portugal, Estonia activities will be on creating educational activities, games, plans to conduct with robotics. Our activities and aims are all related to the topic and in harmony. All activities will attend to realize objectives among Timetable, dissemination and follow up plan. Our participants will use the activities/plans developed during mobilities with teachers. Our LTT activities shaped to find a new method. They facilitate contact between participating institutions not just at the national level, but also transnationally. These links provide an opportunity to share environmental information, good practices about to protect our children from bullying with skills engaged via LEGO EV3, VEX IQ, MBOTs, LEGO SPIKE etc.

The results that the project will generate (both tangible and intangible) are directly related to the needs identified and detailed at the beginning of this form such as Anti-Bullying Games e-Booklet/e-magazine, Public Report and Antibullying short video, Antibullying Units and Clubs, Creation of complaints policies, Antibullying Flyers/Brochures/Posters, Project Website/Youtube Channel/ FB page, School Counselling Reports, %5 replacement in bullying,%5 increase at academic success and promo sets.

We plan to involve schools as active beneficiaries which will have the main impact of the project. Our project will contribute to creating safer school environments for teachers and pupils. We all aim to make our schools more positive places for teachers and pupils and use the new method; using Robotics as a tool to prevent bullying via Anti-bullying clubs for many years.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 170080 Eur

Project Coordinator

Storåskolan & Country: SE

Project Partners

• Kuressaare Gümnaasium
• OSNOVNA SOLA BREG
• Manisa Fen Lisesi
• Agrupamento de Escolas da Batalha
• Colegiul National Tudor Vladimirescu