Be True, Do not Bully! Erasmus Project

Project Title

Be True, Do not Bully!

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: Inclusion – equity; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The Council of Europe works in co-operation with the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children to prevent and addresses all forms of violence against children in schools. The most common of those violence is Bullying and it has wider social and economic costs as well as a long-term impact as the effects persist into adult life. And, types of Bullying have been changing according to the current situations. For instance, While Cyber Bullying was not a topic decades ago, now, it is the most common version of it. If Involvement in school, bullying can be a sign of future antisocial and criminal behaviour. Bullying occurs in all countries in Europe. Violence towards children, as defined in Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, takes numerous forms (physical, sexual or emotional abuse or neglect) and may take place in various contexts: at home, at school, within institutions, etc. The values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination are main focuses of European societies. Bullying at schools damages these values. It is also a key factor in early school leaving, and has serious and long-term effects. It affects mental health and the academic performance of children.The theme of our Project is connected to 2015 Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education aiming “Inclusive education, equality, nondiscrimination “ and “tackling discrimination, racism, segregation, bullying, violence and stereotypes”. During the surveys applied at partner schools, the students were asked If They had ever been bullied or met a child WHO had been bullied?” %28 of the students answered “Yes”. Also, 67% of the school Administrators and Teachers stated that They are trying to prevent Bullying through discipline punishments or formal ways but They do not have the expected impact on the issue especially in a long term. 74% of them thinks that We need to educate them How to behave well and How to be a good person and friend and How to protect themselves against bullying. The project will contribute; to raise awareness violence against children and the presence of school bullying to respect and strenghten diversity in our community and schools to promote peace and tolerance among pupils to enrich intercultural awareness to strenghten the Professional skills of teachers to decrease the failure and other problems resulted from Bullying in schools. We would like to work on the bullying problem in an international level because exchanging ideas and experiences would open us new doors to find practical ways to solve the problem while having a chance to create a different environment in schools through Cultural elements. “Be True, Do not Bully”, BTDB, is a Project to be carried out in the concept of erasmus+ programme with the participation of 5 partners from Italy, coordinator, Turkey, Spain, Greece and Croatia. BTDB is aiming to combine the activities against Bullying with Cultural elemenths to strenghten the impact of those acts to prevent Bullying. The project will contribute to raise awareness violence against children and to respect diversity in our schools and to promote peace and tolerance among pupils of different European countries, to enrich intercultural awareness. We would like to work on the bullying problem in an international level. Because exchanging ideas and experiences would open us new doors to feel ourselves as European Citizens. Objectives of our Project are to reduce bullying at the schools by teacher trainings , students’ and parents” activities and pupil exchanging activities.
Thanks to LTTAs, Teachers will strenghten their Professional Skills, Sudents will actively participate in activties. Participants will improve their Language and Ict skills. Participants will meet new educational methods, They will learn about new Cultures, Traditions and the Education policies of partners etc…
Besides LTTAs, During BTDB there will be local, virtual, dissemination and sustainability activities to support our project and help us reach the objectives. Concrete results to be obtained at the end of each LTTA such as ” Creating a digital guide about bullying and how to prevent it in English” will support the sustainability of the project. When all parts of schools become aware of the problem, its types and ways of solutions and practical applications, the failure regarding with Bullying will decrease, the motivation of teachers and students will increase. Bullying is not only a School problem but also a Social problem and participating in activities about a Social matter will help them to be active citizens. As it may be seen, all our activities are related to the prioritites and objectives of our Project and will lead us to reach Project objectives. BTDB will help students be better citizens of future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 137770 Eur

Project Coordinator

Scuola Cattolica Paritaria Madonna dell’Asilo & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Osnovna skola Ivana Rabljanina Rab
• CEIP POU DE LA MUNTANYA
• SEHIT KAZIM ESMER ILKOKULU
• DES Primary private Company