log on back to life Erasmus Project

Project Title

log on back to life

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; Social dialogue; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

A modern phenomenon that has been recorded in recent years is internet addiction Disorder (IAD). Internet addiction is described as an impulse control disorder, which does not involve use of an intoxicating drug and is very similar to pathological gambling. Some Internet users may develop an emotional attachment to on-line friends and activities they create on their computer screens. Internet users may enjoy aspects of the Internet that allow them to meet, socialize, and exchange ideas through the use of chat rooms, social networking websites, or “virtual communities.” Similar to other addictions, those suffering from Internet addiction use the virtual fantasy world to connect with real people through the Internet, as a substitution for real-life human connection, which they are unable to achieve normally. Internet addiction has become one of the main problems that European secondary school students are facing so our community has to deal with the source of the problem and its impacts. There is a tentative need to investigate the phenomenon and its impacts to all partners’ countries.

Log On Back to Life project aimed to cover a number of gaps concerning the phenomenon of addiction to the internet and detect others that arose from the social research of the project and form the recording of the phenomenon. The project anticipate contributing to the scientific approach to the diagnosis of the factors that lead to addiction and help in the development of policies leading to prevention and treatment of the phenomenon in all its aspects, as they have been emerged from the scientific research so far.

Through the activities of the project, participating organizations, especially those involved with education had the opportunity to study in depth the phenomenon of students’ addiction to the use of the Internet and its impact. Participating organizations had the chance through the project activities and results to highlight those initiatives, educational methods and activities leading in both timely and valid revelation of the problem and in the proposal for implementation of all those policies and scientific methods to effectively address of the problem. By the end of the project participating organization offered special training and information sessions to both their teachers and staff and to their students regarding Internet addiction Disorder (IAD) in terms of identifying, preventing and dealing with the phenomenon by using the dedicated material and analysis that will arise as project’s results and by using the special eplatform of the project developed for this kind of activities.

Special mention should be made on:
•the social research carried out in the framework of our project using specially designed questionnaires by specialized scientists. The questionnaire was based on already developed and internationally recognized relevant questionnaires, (such as The Internet Addiction Test (IAT), which is one of the most utilized diagnostic instruments for Internet addiction), but has been a customized version of these, according to the requirements and needs of our proposed project
•the Reference Handbook on Assess, prevention and Treatment of Internet Addiction developed in the framework of our project. The Handbook is not be a simple document (e.g pdf) file but also an ebook available for all kind of mobile devices (e.g laptops, tablets, smartphones etc). Special mentioned should be made in the new approaches of prevention and treatment proposed under the framework of your project and be included in the handbook
• the new cooperative methodology for the assessment and prevention of internet addiction of Secondary school students. The methodology focused on non pharmacological interventions as these methods cannot be applied in the school environment in an easy way. The methodology was based on the concept of cooperative learning in which students and teachers form discussion teams in order to explore a significant question or create a meaningful project.

The project has been the starting point and an opportunity for academic exchange between partners and the associated partners, highlighting the benefits of the Internet, as well the risks arising from abnormal use of the internet. Through the planned activities of the project had an integrated as possible knowledge of the effects of the use of new technologies, for shielding and empower of secondary school students regarding early diagnosis and addressing of the problem.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 226344 Eur

Project Coordinator

ISTANBUL VALILIGI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Inspectoratul scolar judetean Iasi
• ANAPTIXIAKO KENTRO THESSALIAS
• DIPNOT DERNEGI
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
• YASAR UNIVERSITESI