Bullies to Buddies Erasmus Project

Project Title

Bullies to Buddies

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; Social dialogue; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Conflict between students and peer bullying (swearing, mocking, insulting behaviors, social exclusions, and physical violence against peers) decrease teaching and learning experience in the class. This situation negatively affects the perspective towards the school and the routine atmosphere of the school. Also, according to the scientific researches students who have experienced peer bullying or worry that they may experience peer bullying in the future develop negative attitude towards school, absenteeism, feel alone and have hopelessness, lose self-confidence and academic success. It is beneficial to learn some information (preventing measures) in order to remove damaging and violent situations between students. It is needed to increase awareness and sensitivity against these problems which spoil the healthy school’ atmosphere.
We and our partners together applied need analysis before writing this project to our teachers. Result shows that 65 % of the students who come from lower socio-economic class, the most important problem is conflict between students and peer bullying. According to the survey result peer bullying decreases learning quality and adversely affects school atmosphere. The data shows that students is exposed to physical or psychological violence or they put their peers through bullying. Responds from our schools are approximately 48 % students say that “I mock and tell humiliating words people who tease me”, 52 % students say that “I am exposed to some kind of bullying”. These results show that students do not have the skills which are necessary when handling situations such as the conflict between their peers.
Teachers of Psychological counseling and guidance and other branch teachers discussed reciprocally. They said that there is a misconception and tendency that traditionally peer bullying situations and conflict problems are handled by school administration. Their opinion is that they should know more and gain more skills when solving and preventing this kind of problems before occurring.
We created a union between the partnership schools that have experience regarding peer bullying and the schools that have no experience at all. Five different countries came together under the roof of one partnership: Poland, Turkey, Greece, Romania and Serbia. Useful application exchanges, educational attainment sharing and activities focused five different kind of bullying which were physical, psychological, nonverbal, cyber, and social exclusion.
Generally, our project is related to peer bullying between students and how teachers manage these conflicts. Other projects usually focus verbal and physical bullying, however our project` activities will also include nonverbal, cyber bullying behaviors and social exclusion. The project which were created together with our partners will be beneficial to our schools` students and teachers.
Students who will attend the mobilities (activities-project) selected from between the ages of 11-14, this age group covers new transition to adolescent and also inside the participant student group there will be lower economical-social level, physical-mental handicapped students and inclusive (special needs) students.
The project works will be carried out together with all our students, teachers and parents which will be open to press, nongovernmental representatives, teachers of local schools

Main targets of the project;
– To create an awareness about conflict management and peer bullying.
– To learn constructive and peaceful solution techniques and facilitate these techniques for students’ usage
– To improve inclusive and happy school atmosphere.
– To popularize peer friendship.
– To act according to European Union 2020 target strategy.
– To be included in an international professional field of the educational study.
– To improve the quality of teaching profession and learning quality of students.

Output that we consider to have at the end of the project
– To create a manual (booklet) against the cyber bullying.
– To prepare a brochure against the nonverbal bullying types.
– A short film about the harms of the social exclusion.
– An action plan to cope with peer bullying.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 123908 Eur

Project Coordinator

Szkola Podstawowa im.Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej & Country: PL

Project Partners

• AHMET SERIFE SANLI ORTAOKULU
• 45 Primary School of Iraklion, Greece
• Treci kragujevacki bataljon
• Scoala Gimnaziala Speciala nr. 4