Bullying: I don’t stay! Yes to friendship. Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bullying: I don’t stay! Yes to friendship.

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 Schools Only

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Inclusion – equity; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

The project searches solutions to essential teachers’ problems: methods of bullying solving and work with bullies, unsatisfactory teaching effectiveness and lack of motivation for learning among students. It includes anti-bullying policy: educate to legality, prevent situations of social distress, marginalization, deviance, listen to the child and make him aware of his emotions, involve families in the educational processes and strategies adopted by the school. The main aims are:
learn methods and forms of work used by each school and search for new
promote pro-social behaviours
building the abilities to work in a multicultural group and improve interest in the other culture
building motivations for learning through innovative activities
using modern technologies for learning and for creative activities
building students’ digital and media skills and competences to promote active citizenship
develop language skills, basic and transversal skills, such as social, civic and intercultural competences
developing students’ and teachers’ creativity
undertaking different types of creative activities.
Four primary and secondary schools from Italy, Portugal, Poland and Romania participate, involving:
students. They have had a real exchange by peer group (peer education). There were two target groups. The first consists of participants in the activities and is a heterogeneous group by age, origin, knowledges, abilities and competences. Students aged 9 – 13/14 years had the opportunity to examine their own emotions or feelings and those of others. They communicated the material to their schoolmates and they shared their experiences. The second group also participated in the project with the same activities carried out during the mobility lessons of the participants. In both groups there was an opportunity to acquire the same virtuous knowledge, skills and styles of behaviour.
teachers. They compared and shared experiences and skills with colleagues by developing professionalism, increasing skills and resources, prepared the pupils by setting up specific paths for the acquisition of Knowledges and skills, supported and guided them during the course of the activities.
families. They were involved in a growth path sharing parental problems by constructive comparisons with similar situations. Families have been informed and trained about characteristic aspects of bullying, opportunities and risks of electronic communication and parental responsibility. Consequences: the reassessment of anxiety, the feelings of inadequacy reduction and consequently this encouraged generational meeting. They contributed to the project by being collaborative in welcoming children during their mobilities.
local community contributed to the project by providing materials and spaces for events, conferences, courses for parents and people formation.
press has given to this event yet more importance and diffusion into the people. It helped us to show our international collaboration, the project results to increase awareness of the existence of this problem.
The activities carried out with the pupils were all characterized by the “aspect” of the experience ” and “of doing” in the first person. These aspects were used for creation of products and scenarios: workshops for students: some issues of bullying and cyberbullying were explored; identification of some problematic situations: stimulated reflection (problem solving), use of dialogue to solve conflict situations; group work (cooperative learning) guided by the teachers.
The following tasks have been planned to achieve the objectives:
3 posters with different graphic-painting techniques
presentations by ppt and videos of themselves, their schools, town and country
a website to insert materials, to give bullying information and aids
a song
4 bullying stories, published on an e-Book, used to teach
a didactic theatrical performance with 4 new stories, students/actors and a video
comics and a small guide of didactic digital comics to build up a set of behaviours to reduce the problem
4 leaflets against bullying using photos of the scenarios taken during the previous stages of the project
a public conference about bullying, opportunities and risks of electronic communication and parental responsibility with a university expert to improve awareness of it
a presentation to the community of the project’s contents, products and distribution of information material
a methodological guide for an educational project
bullying scenarios in typical places and attractive buildings visited, photographed for the leaflets.
Most important results: acquisition of virtuous behaviour styles, a greater awareness among children about their behaviours and their possible consequences, a change of the techniques and methods of teaching and learning, a greater awareness of the European dimension, discovering different cultures and appreciating the differences; improvement in use of mother language, English, ITC.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 88463,99 Eur

Project Coordinator

Istituto Comprensivo di Porto Viro & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 4 im. prof. Wladyslawa Szafera w Elku
• PALATUL COPIILOR VASLUI
• 5th primary school agion anargyron
• Agrupamento de Escolas Fernando Casimiro Pereira da Silva