Let’s say stop to violence together Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s say stop to violence together

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: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

“Violence is the all forms of physical or mental violence,injury or abuse,neglect or negligent treatment,maltreatment or exploitation including sexual abuse.It is admitted that violence occurs only between adults and children but also between children themselves.UNCR (United Nations Child Rights Contract) clause19. Individual or mass violence arise from different reasons all over the world. What we need to investigate in depth is whether people who use violence are given correct information or not about the negative aspects of violence throughout their education. If children are able to learn violent behaviors in some way, they can also learn to stay away from it with a right education. The aim of this project that was established with the partnership of Greece,Turkey,Romania,Italy and Lithuania is changing the school climate to increase students’ interest in school and providing a variety of educational activities to prevent actions involving crime and violence in schools. We want to ensure that students learn their rights and responsibilities fully and correctly with the awareness of active citizenship, to respect each other by organizing empathy workshops, and to improve the motivation of the school environment with 21st century technology competencies training. Because our partner schools have immigrant students coming from neighboring countries and students with intense subcultures.Sometimes there may be some disciplinary event and conflicts among students. Violence in schools; peer bullying and physical fights spread to a wide range of insults, humiliation, exclusion, abuse, damage to common items. Today’s modern technology has brought cyberbullying with it. Via our partnership, we also want to ensure that students use safe technology by the right education. Students who are involved in discipline, crime and violence are less interested in school.If there is violence in a school,parents lose their trust against this school.Unless we fight against crime and violence in schools, we cannot prevent students from leaving school early. Students who are victims of violence lose their interest in school. Feeling safe in schools prevents them from leaving school early. From the Erasmus program 2014-2020 priorities, we want to reduce early school dropout from 14% to 10%. Our concrete outputs that we are planning to produce are;1-Empathy Workshop-Digital Classroom2-Handbook on Combating Violence3-No to Violence Day4- Smiling Faces Photography Exhibition-3D museum -arsteps5 -Preventing Cyber Bullying Instruction Handbook6-Case analysis-Short Film7-Digital Cartoon book. Violence is a primary priority problem not only in Europe but also in all countries of the world. We need to solve this problem in schools, which are the most important social environment of our children and to ensure that our children gain the ability to fight against violence. We will carry out the activities we have determined for our project in four stages. 1-Increasing awareness of Crime and Violence 2-Providing empathy education through creative drama 3-Improving school literacy by increasing technology literacy -Prepared cartoons and Smileys will be displayed both publicly and online through the 3D Museum ‘ArtSteps’. -To prepare a handbook for students – teachers and families to prevent crime and violence by applying creative writing techniques. “Fight Against Violence Handbook”. The groups in our project are students, teachers and parents of partner schools. Students aged 11-15 and their teachers will participate in transnational mobilities. These students will participate in pre-planned activities with individual and group activities with students of partner schools in transnational events. Each partner school will form an observation group of 25 to carry out project activities. This group will participate in activities in the project’s local and international project activities and will act as a behavior observation and statistical data collection group. Families will take an active role in the local activities of the project. Student selections will be made with the project team according to the pre-determined criteria. Our two-year project aims to reduce violent behaviors in schools, raise awareness about the negativity of violence, and teach our children’s rights and responsibilities in violence. Project success will be determined by numerical evaluations. Evaluation with Forms and Surveys and Face to face interviews. At the end of the project, awareness of violence in partner schools will be increased and a safe school environment will be provided. Families’ sense of trust in school will increase .We wil use various channels to disseminate the project activities such as school web sites, news sites, radio broadcast, erasmusdays events, local methods.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 164946 Eur

Project Coordinator

2o Gymnasio Geraka & Country: EL

Project Partners

• ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO STATALE “ALDO MORO”
• anamur ortaokulu
• Scoala Gimnaziala Aurel Pop
• Mazeikiu rajono Zidiku Marijos Peckauskaites gimnazija