Digital Tools for Digital Challenges Erasmus Project

Project Title

Digital Tools for Digital Challenges

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 : Partnerships for Digital Education Readiness

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

There are only few surveys contacted about cyberbullying in Cyprus especially among children of the age of 6-14. However, it is well known that cyberbullying is increasing rapidly in the past few years especially and parents are not so familiar about this kind of bullying. Save the Children in Spain in 2016 states that 6.9% of Spanish pupils between 9 and 16 years old say have suffered cyberbullying at some time. The figure rises to 12% in 2017, according to UNICEF surveys. Based on the research conducted at the end of 2019 with 228 respondents in Lithuania, about 67% of respondents do not know whom to contact when cyberbullying, hate speech is observed, 1/3 notice hate groups and aggressive speech. 56% of parents whose child has received nasty or hurtful messages online say that their child has not.
The project “Digital Tools for Digital Challenges” (DIGIPRO) is focusing on the challenges of the digital world – cyberbullying and hate speech– and proposes a different approach of work – using digital tools to listen to the opinion of children, teenagers and promote co-education, cooperation among schools, parents and external stakeholders in this way contributing in solving these harmful phenomena.
The consortium involves 5 partners from 4 European countries: Eurosuccess Consulting (Cyprus), VšĮ EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI (Lithuania), OpenEurope (Spain), Trito Dimotiko Sxoleio Zografou School (Greece) and Parents Association of Primary Schools in Paphos (Cyprus).

The project has set up the following objectives:
• To find ways of collaboration, create a space for dialogue between teachers, parents and children that can facilitate the resolution of harmful or dangerous situations online by activating the positive resources of the communities and external stakeholders involved;
• To listen to the point of view of children, enabling them as EU citizens and creating a space to debate and reflect on the project topics;
• Experimenting with participatory tools and methodologies that promote a new relationship with the media and technologies;
• Production of digital tools, online methodology that can accompany European stakeholders in contributing to the reduction of cyberbullying and hate speech phenomena;
• Developing competences of teachers, supporting teachers in becoming facilitators of innovative digital educational paths;
• Fostering inclusion of all learners, representing a variety of needs, facing a variety of disadvantaged students;
The outputs anticipated in the project:
1. Documentary (IO1) with interviews with children explaining to teachers and parents their point of view about cyberbullying and hate speech;
2. Cartoon (IO2) created in cooperation of children, parents, teachers and project partners;
3. App (IO3) with activities and games to be carried out in the family and at school.
4. Online methodology for teachers (IO4) who wish to set up a co-educational relationship with families of children in the class: it will contain materials to be downloaded to facilitate meaningful educational experiences using the digital tools created in the project (IO1, IO2 and IO3)
With the outputs we are contributing to the promotion of the use of digital tools and of innovative and open pedagogies in education, training at the same time creating free and open source educational resources.
The activities throughout the period of 2 years are organized in a way so that to achieve the project objectives and create the anticipated outputs. There will be 2 face to face transnational meetings and 4 MEs in partners countries to have the outputs disseminated on the European scale and the widest audiences.
The project is contributing to a new approach promotion:
• hearing the voice of children, letting them to become the heroes and experts on the project topics, making input to the creation of the documentary and cartoon;
• promoting the need for co-education – the work on prevention, information, proper reaction should be done not only at schools, but also in families;
Teachers (150), trainers (25), families (300), children (500) from 4 European countries through the project activities, workshops will be involved in the co-development, co-creation and testing of the outputs.
The project outputs in 4 languages will be shared with teachers, parents, school management, policy/ decisions makers via created multilingual project website, School Education Gateway, eTwinning and Erasmus+ Results Platforms.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 181432 Eur

Project Coordinator

G.G. EUROSUCCESS CONSULTING LIMITED & Country: CY

Project Partners

• Trito Dimotiko Sxoleio Zografou
• VSI EDUKACINIAI PROJEKTAI
• Associacio Programes Educatius Open Europe
• Parent’s Association of Primary Schools in Paphos