Protecting Enhancing Participating Educating Informing Erasmus Project

Project Title

Protecting Enhancing Participating Educating Informing

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 : Strategic Partnerships for school education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture; Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project Summary

The PREPEI project (Protecting Enhancing Participating Educating Informing) addressed the issues of learning and informing the entire school community in relation to the importance of bullying as a factor of school dropout by providing them innovative tools. The project is particularly relevant for 2 out of the 8 key competences for lifelong learning highlighted in the EU policy documents: Personal, social and learning, and Cultural awareness and expression (Key competences for lifelong learning – Factsheet 2017).

The question of interest for the project is: How to recognize and respond early and effectively to behaviors that can lead to bullying and school drop out through information, awareness raising and training as first and essential steps that must be done to cope with this pan- European problem. The project aimed to prepare school community of taking more responsibility in managing early school leaving and bullying.

Objectives:
1. The overall objective of the project was to create, test and implement an innovative educative and informative program for sensitization of school communities and prevention of school violence and bullying in order to reduce the school dropout.
2. Development of an innovative toolbox to support the overall first objective, to help train and inform school community through the implementation of six Intellectual Outputs, (IO 1 – Video, IO 2 – Teachers Training module, IO 3 – Manuals for Teachers & Educators, IO 4 – Video Game, IO 5 – Communication Platform, IO 6 – Webinar, IO 7 – Train the trainer course). Namely, the concrete tools that have been developed are:

– Video game using shadow theatre heroes,
– Video using the traditional shadow theatre heroes,
– Training manual with guidelines how to use the video,
– Webinars dealing with violence among students,

All the above tools are user friendly for educators that are interested to coordinate the training and develop skills in managing bullying by providing information, ready to use materials and a step-by-step description of the procedure.

The consortium consisted of 6 partners from 5 countries, namely:

1. The Smile of the Child (GR)
2. Ellinogermaniki Aggogi S.A. (GR)
3. Asociatia Direct (RO)
4. Baobab Association (SP)
5. Association for equal opportunities SEMPER (MKD)
6. Nadja Centre Foundation (BUG)

To reach the objectives, all partners worked together on creating conditions for the implementation and development of a consolidated pedagogical approach respecting the cultural particularities of each country. That has been achieved by developing innovative tools with use of shadow theatre. The rationale of the methodology used was that for each project activity one project partner undertook the role of the task leader, presenting guidelines and support about how the activity should be implemented, and other partners were the participating partners in the activity, pursuing to implement the guidelines in their own context, if that was the case.

The project organized three multiplier events in Spain and North Macedonia with 128 participants where all six Intellectual Outputs were presented to a wide audience. Furthermore in all countries, 612 educators participated in piloting activities, 628 educators trained on how to use the tools of the project and through awareness raising activities at schools have been reached more than 4.413 students, 2.756 parents and 567 teachers on the issue of bullying and school drop out.

One main result of PREPEI project is the tangible output – a toolbox consisting of videos, teachers training module, manuals for teachers & educators and video game. These products target educators, school leaders, students and different stakeholders in the field of education. The training material contains guidelines, descriptions, theories and evaluation tools (in cases where this was applicable). The outputs are usable and applicable to primary and secondary schools, using all project’s outputs not only separately but also but also in combination.

Another important result is the intangible outcome of increased awareness of the participants and other stakeholders getting involved with the project, about how working with the project’s outputs can lead to have multiplied positive effects on educators and students.

The consortium believes that the project achieved to disseminate knowledge and practical examples about how to responsibly manage bullying and stimulating thinking and behaviors in all educational settings in order to promote equity and inclusion for special vulnerable groups facing challenges.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 260838,77 Eur

Project Coordinator

TO HAMOGELO TOU PAIDIOU & Country: EL

Project Partners

• Associació Catalana de Formació Polivalent Aplicada, Baobab
• Nadja Centre Foundation
• Association for equal opportunities SEMPER
• ELLINOGERMANIKI AGOGI SCHOLI PANAGEA SAVVA AE
• ASOCIATIA DIRECT