Let’s remove bullying and promote kindness to one another Erasmus Project

Project Title

Let’s remove bullying and promote kindness to one another

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Context
With the increase of the children’s use of technology and social media, bullying has become increasingly widespread online. It has taken a new form, more complex and more difficult to identify, because it is sometimes concealed by the bullies under false pretense and impersonation. One of the major concerns of researches into this phenomenon is that the consequences of bullying are increasingly severe.
The project is aimed at both students and their parents – on the one hand we want to make sts responsible users of the internet and social media, to decrease the incidence of cyberbullying and on the other hand to help parents with guidance in order to monitor and supervise their children’s online activity and to identify signs of cyberbullying in the behaviour of their children.

Objectives
To decrease the incidence of cyberbullying by at least 50% in 2 years
-To raise the awareness of at least 80% of the target group related to all forms of bullying at the end of the 2 project years
-To improve parents’ capacity to monitor their children’s online activity by producing one guide for them and running 4 workshops (C2-C4)
-To create an online platform for the reporting of cyberbullying incidents which will be used by all the schools starting with the academic year 2022-2023 (C5)
-To increase students’ intercultural awareness and communication skills
-To develop students’ creativity and critical thinking
-To develop the European dimension of our schools through international cooperation

Participants
The target group – 170 students aged 12-14 in each school. Participants in exchanges – 80 students (20 students from each country) – attend regular classes, topic-related workshops and lectures, cultural activities
Parents of TG students – will take part in workshops addressed to them during the exchanges and also after the exchanges, as each school will implement similar workshops with its TG parents

Activities
C1 – Cyber-bullying across European schools – Case studies, statistics, current situation in each school/country
C2 – How do I spend my time online? – Guidelines for mobile and Internet use – exchange
C3 – How do I know when I am being bullied? – Identification of cyberbullying forms and incidents
C4 – What are the consequences of cyberbullying for the bully and the victim? – Ethical and legal standards for online activities, psychological consequences
C5 – What do I do if somebody bullies me? – Reporting cyberbullying and online hate incidents

Results
As a result of our cooperation, we will produce the following outputs, which will be applied in our schools and shared free on dissemination platforms such as eTwinning, EPRP, the project website:
a. Initial and final analysis of cyberbullying in our schools (The UK)
b. Guide for online safety (addressed to students) (RO)
c. Brochure entitled Causes and effects of cyberbullying (PL)
d. Guide for parental control of children’s online activity (ES)
e. Online platform for reporting bullying incidents (addressed to students and parents) (TR)
f. Sets of activities on the topic of cyberbullying for use with students (All partners)
Impact
The project is meant to contribute to the European dimension of our schools.
We will improve the openness and flexibility of our teachers and our students.
The school will gain an advantage in the local community, as it will become more appealing to future students
We will reduce the incidence of cyberbullying, will be more prepared to deal with the phenomenon, will make students abler to identify such situations and how to act in circumstances like that. We will also enable parents to become more active in their children’s life, monitoring and guiding them, providing them with support. Thus we will create a fruitful collaboration school-parents-students.
Our school will become a resource locally, as we will share our results with schools in our areas. We will gain a valuable project management capacity which will help us develop qualitative future Erasmus+ initiatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149540 Eur

Project Coordinator

Sanders School & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Scoala Gimnaziala Zvoristea
• Zespol Szkolno Przedszkolny nr 1 w Piszu
• LUIS CARRILLO DE SOTOMAYOR HIGH SCHOOL
• Ozel Kandilli Ortaokulu