Don’t Be Bully, Be Friend Fully Erasmus Project

Project Title

Don’t Be Bully, Be Friend Fully

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)

Project Summary

Peer bullying; the person or persons who are in the same age group are physically, verbally or behaviorally detrimental to one another. Peer bullying has a negative impact on the development process of children and adolescents, and this effect exceeds childhood and adolescence and leaves negative traces for life. It is stated by experts that many of the violent incidents in society are motivated by revenge on the people who have been bullied.

The problem of peer bullying has been an educational problem which needs to be developed in many countries and solutions should be urgently needed. Peer bullying which negatively impacts the educational success of the school and causes many students to leave school has led educational institutions to produce projects on this issue and to develop innovative methods in solving this problem.

Three initiatives have been identified under the European 2020 strategy “Towards Intelligent Growth”. These are respectively; ”Innovation Association“, ”Youth in Motion“ and ”Digital Agenda“. The project will focus on ele Innovative and effective approaches in the prevention of peer bullying in the education process, cooperation will be made in order to generate new ideas in this field and our teachers will be given the opportunity of mobility. During the 24 months of project work, our participant teachers will share their knowledge and experience on the prevention of peer bullying and develop innovative and effective approaches, partner countries will integrate innovative and effective methods in the prevention of peer bullying into their own educational systems, the educational quality of the partner institutions will increase and the inter-institutional synergy will develop. Our project; social, cultural, linguistic and geographic context covers a large European area and foresees cooperation between countries.

Within the scope of project studies, our teachers have the opportunity to work together;

– Develop innovative methods to prevent peer bullying,
– They will gain intercultural awareness,
– Develop communication skills with foreign language,
– Foreign language awareness will increase,
– Lock skills will develop.

The goals we want to achieve with the PeerBullying project are:

a. Strengthen the teacher profile.
b. Avoid peer bullying in our schools.
c. To reduce the rate of early school drop depending on peer bullying.
d. To create a cooperative educational environment among students in our schools.
e. To improve the quality of education of our schools.
f. To improve the synergy of our schools at international level.
g. To raise awareness of commonities and differences of partner countries.
h. To raise awareness of the languages of partner countries.
I. Breaking negative prejudices between countries

Participants: Teachers working in schools in the project. Three teachers from Yenice Multi-Program High School, 3 teachers from Macedonia, 3 teachers from Bugaria and 3 teachers from Slovenia will participate in the project. The selection of participants is explained in the section “Learning Teaching Training”.

Activities:
a. First LTT (03/2020, Turkey meeting)
b. Second LTT (06/2020, Macedonia meeting)
c. Third LTT (10/2020, Bulgaria meeting)
d. Fourth and last LTT (03/2021, Slovenia meeting)
d. P activities (24 months)

Participation in this project will contribute to the development of common schools in the long term:
a. The education success of our schools will increase
b. Our schools will increase their preference for students and teachers
c. Students’ learning motivation and academic success will increase
d. An environment will be created in our schools where students will have high solidarity, respect, love and tolerance.
e. In our schools, the rate of drop to school due to peer bullying will be reduced
f. A policy of multilingualism will be developed in our schools
g. Our schools will increase their experience in KA229 projects. Schools without experience will gain experience.
h. Identify the requirements of our schools for corporate, staff and students and develop their capacity to produce projects according to these requirements
I. Synergy between schools will develop
j. To raise awareness among teachers about different cultures
k. New strategies and new methodologies to prevent peer bullying will be developed in our schools
l. Peer bullying at local level at other levels

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 66042 Eur

Project Coordinator

YENICE COK PROGRAMLI ANADOLU LISESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• SABA
• Prof. Ivan Apostolov Private English Language School
• Srednja vzgojiteljska sola, gimnazija in umetniska gimnazija Ljubljana