Cybersecurity Schools Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cybersecurity Schools

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: Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

The issue of online security and protection are topics that arise with the development of the Information Society and their intensive use by the population. These changes pose new educational changes for an adequate online management of our students’ safety and privacy. A few years ago it was unthinkable that would be exposed our private lives to the whole world. Our experience with the web was reduced to the consumption of content. With the Web 2.0 technology becomes a ubiquitous reality that accompanies us throughout the day, makes us communicate, share information, collaborate in the creation of new content and we relate in a different way. New tendencies emerge that go on the line of making more and more public intimate aspects of personal life. In this new reality information risks falling into improper use, endangering privacy and configuring the digital identity itself. In this context, remaining constantly aware of everything children are doing online, can be a full-time job for parents and teachers. The best way to fight cyber criminals is through education, and it can start at any age. Therefore some of our topics will be: Healthy use of mobile devices, gender – based violence in the Internet, stereotypes and sexist language in the Internet, privacy on the net, care of the image itself, techniques to prevent and combat situations of cyberbullying, threats or extortions in the Internet (grooming, sexting…), and what to do in the face of criminal situations on the Internet.
In this context, the motivation for developing this project comes from the main purpose itself, that is, to make our pupils aware of the correct use of the new technologies and its dangers. It is aimed at students from ten years old for their greater contact with mobile phones, computers and tablets, websites, social networks, applications, electronic games… In addition, they all live in large cities, where the risks described above multiply, and the need for this kind of projects is greater.
Cybersecurity Schools is a project that pursues as main objective the exchange of good practices between six European countries in matters of security and privacy of our students on the Internet. We would like to organize and develop the First International Bilingual Congress on Cybersecurity, share our best practices and publish the Conference Proceedings Cybersecurity Book.
Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain (coordinator) and Turkey will be the European countries forming part of this experience. Four of them are primary level schools and two are secondary level institutes. Almost 150 students will participate in the mobility activities.
Our activities will be designed to have the opportunity to participate all the agents of our educational communities. In this way we will advance towards an educational participation that is the one that at the moment has scientific evidences of obtaining the best results of learning and coexistence between our students.
There will be six mobilities, in which both pupils and teachers would have the opportunity to put into practice what they have been working before and share their experiences when working in the exchange of the good practices. All the partners will participate in these mobilities and they will choose four pupils to come with them, … giving priority to the most disadvantaged students, to express themselves, relate and collaborate with the rest in achieving the objectives. One of the important parts of the Congress is the presentation of good practices made by the partners on the subjects under study. These will be didactic units or workshops carried out collaboratively among all the partners. Each one assumes the commitment to design a good practice (activity or task) to be done by all partners. Another important part is the Cybermentors. They are students organized in small, international mixed teams that will work on a subject of protection and security in the network, on which they will be formed during a period of time to present it in the Congress.
Products obtained from both: the good practices and the learning of the Cybermentors students will be exposed in the last mobility consisting of the celebration of a Congress in the coordinator country.
Our methodology will be mainly active, integrating and collaborative. Giving the main roles to the pupils so they are the centre of the project, taking advantage of the shifting class, peer work, scaffolding.
The expecting final results of the project, which are celebrating the First International Cyberbullying Congress conducted by pupils and forming pupils as cybermentors are very ambitious, so we can not stop here. Our proposals include, as it can not be in another way, that these already formed cybermentors go on forming another pupils who will became the main actor for the next congress to be celebrated the next year. In this sense the spirit of the project will be long term included in the educational context of every school.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 197634 Eur

Project Coordinator

CEIP Ciudad de Mérida & Country: ES

Project Partners

• Szkola Podstawowa nr 88 w Poznaniu
• Szent István Egyházi Általános Iskola és Kollégium
• Istituto Comprensivo Pescara 7
• Fethiye Ortaokulu
• Scoala Gimnaziala “Samson Bodnarescu” Galanesti