Healthy Digital Life for Pupils Erasmus Project

Project Title

Healthy Digital Life for Pupils

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The European Commission’s Communication “A new skills agenda for Europe: Working together to strengthen human capital, employability and competitiveness” proposes ways to address the skills challenges that Europe is currently facing. The aim is for everyone to have the key set of competences needed for personal development, social inclusion, active citizenship and employment. Digital competence is one of these and the key components of digital competence are summarized in 5 title by the European Commission. One of them is “Security”. Security aims to understand risks and threats in digital environments, to know about safety and security measures and to have due regard to reliability and privacy, to be able to avoid health-risks and threats to physical and psychological well-being while using digital Technologies, to be able to protect oneself and others from possible dangers in digital environments (e.g. cyber bullying) and to protect personal data and privacy in digital environments. For the ınformation and data literacy, the main competences are to analyze, compare and critically evaluate the credibility and reliability of sources of data, information and digital content, to analyze, interpret and critically evaluate the data, information and digital content.

The latest findings of the EU Kids Online Research Project strategically increase the importance of these two qualifications: Compared with 2010, 11-16 year-old group’s exposure to hate messages increased from 13% to 20%, exposure to pro-anorexia sites increased from 9% to 13%, exposure to self-destructive internet sites increased from 7% to 11%, and cyber-bullying exposure increased from 7% to 12%. The European 9-16 age group says that what they see on the internet online in 2014 affects them higher, from %13 to %17. According to a scientific study conducted by Ege University, the daily life of 60% of young people is adversely affected by internet usage habits. It is stated that the negative impact on the life of the person in this frame means problematic usage, and according to the findings of the survey, it is stated that the rate of problematic internet usage in our country is very high among the youth. Some research findings reveal the need for young people at the secondary level to be able to control the use of the Internet and be directed to be beneficial to their education and lives. Moreover, according to these researches, the problematic aspects of the relationship that students establish with the internet have a negative effect on their academic achievements.
The proposed project is based on this problematic issue, and has identified secondary school students as the primary target audience as they have become more confident internet users with more varied habits in transition period to a more independent phase.
The project will enable the target group members to manage and / or raise awareness of digital issues through:
(1) Training teachers who are primary individuals (guides) in a way that they can respond to their needs about “healthy digital life”.
(2) Raising awareness of them and their parents

The original aspect of the project is that it does not address digital issues at a single level, as in the case of internet dependency. The project approaches the efforts to overcome digital problems with a holistic perspective and moves from the concept of health.
Designed as 24 months, the project is built on 4 interconnected categories of activities. In this context:
(1) The Category of Administrative Activity:
It aims to ensure that the project outputs are an integral part of the objectives and expected results.
(2) The Category of Capacity Building Activity in the Field of Research:
It will be implemented in a multi-methodological design to provide support for the back-plan information of the project’s products as a continuation of the online security and healthy digital life debate that unveils the project proposal.
(3) The Category of Capacity Building Activity in the Field of Education and Human Resources:
It includes use and dissemination activities related with the issues that may be a source of concern of Internet and mobile communication technologies, and the intellectual outputs to overcome these problems positively. In this context, the open educational resources will be designed by separating from traditional methods and utilizing the possibilities offered by the digital world, and will focus on audiovisual elements that facilitate learning and remembrance in multiple environments.
(4) The Category of Dissemination Activity:
It includes a set of activities (website, visibility materials, media planning, country seminars, workshops, conference etc.) related to the sectoral and geographical expansion and dissemination of the project.

Project Website

http://hdlife.erciyes.edu.tr/

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 128627,13 Eur

Project Coordinator

ERCIYES UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN
• UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA
• Kayseri Emniyet Mudurlugu