COMBATTING AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND BULLYING Erasmus Project

Project Title

COMBATTING AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AND BULLYING

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: Social dialogue; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

CONTEXT/BACKGROUND
Today’s world map shows us an increasing intermingling of various cultures that have to or want tolive together. More often than not, these colourful maps are often clouded by inherent conflicts and threats of imminent war. It is why we believe that the sooner we act, the better chance we will stand to prevent such conflicts from breaking out. The reason why we chose to make this a priority of our project is the fact that this entire phenomenon is also visible from early stages of life, at ages when children should try to see the beauty of life, should learn acceptance and tolerance and should be free from prejudices.The basic behaviour that students generally resort to at their age to show disrespect and lack of tolerance is bullying, a phenomenon which has increased steadily and affected an increasingly worrying number of students in the past years.

OBJECTIVES
The overall purpose of the project is to combat the unsound mentalities existing inside communities which are built on disrespect and intolerance against certain groups of people by raising students awareness of the terrible effects of these behaviours on the development of a human being and by combating hate speech and hate behaviour inside schools.

The objectives we have established are meant as steps that need to be undertaken in order to attain the purpose:
1. to promote inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories
2. to reduce violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance, acceptance of alterity and inter- and intra-cultural respect
3. to actively involve students in activities that presuppose working in multicultural teams.
4. to discourage the tendency to stereotyping and prejudice based on isolated cases of misbehaviour.
5. to enhance the quality of the relationship among students of different cultural backgrounds and develop their social and communication skills
6. to encourage the learning of different languages and cultures from the European space.
7.to reduce the phenomenon of early drop-outs by eliminating incidents of bullying and increasing the self-confidence of participants
8.provide knowledge regarding bullying, its impact, and its prevention, and provide guidelines for symptoms of victims, bystanders and actors and correlation factors
9. to promote inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories
10. to reduce violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance, acceptance of alterity and inter- and intra-cultural respect

NUMBER AND PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
2000 students in the schools with ages ranging from 13-17 will benefit indirectly. Out of these, 5 students for each LTT ,totally 150 participant students will participate in the short-term exchanges. some of them are at risk of social exclusion, facing economic difficulties or have behaviour problems. The selection will happen before each meeting according to a previously estabished methodology.
200 teachers involved directly and indirectly. There will be 1(one) accompanying person for each LTT meeting with the students. İn Total,5 For each LTT, There wıll be 30 mobility for accopmanying persons.The project team in each school will comprise at least 1 school counsellor, 1 English teacher, 1 Arts teacher, 1 Music teacher and 1 PE teacher.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES & METHODOLOGY TO BE USED
– Project management (ongoing): Design and implementation of methodologies to be applied – selection of participants, communication, reporting; Financial management and acquisitions; Risk management and control; Evaluation of activities and results.
– LTTAs: “The role of teachers in combating bullying. Developing a programme to include victims of discrimination and bullying-Forms of bullying – verbal, physical, social or emotional//Sports to Stop Violence -Photographs&films to stop violence”-Arts&crafts to stop violence-Music&dance to stop violent-Photographs&films to stop violence”,Cyber bullying, literature and poem to stop bullying.

RESULTS AND IMPACT
-booklet which includes outcomes
-programme for assistance of bullies and bullied devised and implemented at the end
-students, staff, local communities will become aware of the phenomenon and implications of bullying and develop better intercultural relationships
-the cases of bullying are reduced
-the schools become part of a network and can assist each other in dealing with bullying
-values like tolerance and respect are promoted among participants and indirect beneficiaries.

LONG-TERM BENEFITS
-The project envisions building on the personal and social development of learners, contributing on a long-term basis to the ‘establishment’ of ethical, rightful and respectful citizens.
-programme will be implemented according to sustainability plan-booklet will be available online for free use by other schools
-number of bullying cases is reduced
-synergy among different cultures is established

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 166205 Eur

Project Coordinator

LYCEE MODESTE LEROY & Country: FR

Project Partners

• LICEUL VOIEVODUL MIRCEA
• Gulveren Anadolu Lisesi
• Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “G.A. Pischedda”
• Sindi Gümnaasium
• 44Secondary School Neofit Bozveli