Say no to bullying! Reducing cyber- and offline bullying amongst NEET people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Say no to bullying! Reducing cyber- and offline bullying amongst NEET people

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 adult education

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; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

Reduction of the level and mitigation of the effects of youth unemployment have a central role within the objectives of the European Union. According to the latest data of the EUROSTAT (2018) the ratio of the NEET people, with the only exception of Hungary, is higher in the partner countries than the European average. Generally, NEET people are characterized by a low level of education, living in poverty and unfavorable behavioral patterns – primarily the lack of the necessary motivation – due to the intergenerational transmission of poverty.
They are especially at risk of all forms of online bullying. Members of socially excluded, under-educated groups are more vulnerable than their better-off counterparts. Furthermore, online bullying is often accompanied by offline aggression and abuse.
NEET people, because of the lack of other types of regular activities spend more time in cyberspace and more frequently become the victims of bullying, trafficking or sexual exploitation.
The main objective of the project is to prevent and to reduce the prevalence of bullying among NEET people by developing the toolbox of adult educators, trainers, social workers, and other service providers to make them able to identify the phenomenon, to support the actors of bullying, to re-shape the behavioral patterns of bullies and to activate the passive witnesses.
The nature of this social problem explains the need for international cooperation as the misuse of digital technologies and social media hit people globally.
Five from six participants of the partnership are members of the DLearn network, which is a collector of practices and ideas, gathering diverse organizations in Europe to reflect, think and trigger new initiatives, toward the enhancement of digital learning. The experience of the DLearn network in planning and implementing EU funded projects will provide firm bases for the project.
Budapest Organization of Konszenzus Foundation, as the main applicant implements projects especially in the areas of social protection, labor market, and info-communication, in order to support the integration of disadvantaged groups into society.
FEUZ, Spain, aims to find collaborative, innovative solutions for the needs of entrepreneurs, public and private enterprises and institutions, liberal professionals, students and society in general.

Step by Step Parent’s Association, Croatia works on the promotion of parenting and the rights of the child.
AKNOW, Greece, is a technical implementation company providing highly skilled ICT services.

National Child Protection League, Hungary, working with pupils, students and teachers has great experience in the Safer Internet program.
NEET people for a longer or shorter period of time are unconnected with the educational system and generally with the world of formal organizations. Programs supporting them are often inadequate because of their methods, alienating locations and sometimes the attitudes of the trainers. Therefore, innovative adult education methods, based on the permanent virtual presence and tailored to the needs of this special group of young people have to be applied to prevent and to mitigate the effects of online and offline abuse.
Adult educators, trainers, social workers and other representatives of the helping professions are the direct and NEET people are the indirect target group of the project.
The first IO of the project will focus on systematic screening of the background information. Several studies were published on bullying but mainly from a psychological- and child protection perspective and far less knowledge were accumulated on the socio-economic factors which can be crucial considering NEET people.

A digital manual will also be prepared for the direct target group including information, on bullying, an protecting victims of it, different social media platforms, digital competencies, innovative teaching methods, etc.

A learning and training platform (LME) will be constructed partly for educational purposes, partly to give place for different interactions between the actors. Here the educators will be able to share their problems and the best practices; young people can ask for help during the learning process or in case of experiencing abuse.

And last an online game will be developed using all the new ICT potential, especially the playful, interactive, participatory features, to sensitize the the target groups for the harms of bullying, to combat exclusionary attitudes and to decrease prejudice.

The envisaged primary impact of the project will be the decrease of the aggressive attitudes and abusive actions, the development of the digital competencies of the target groups, strengthening the motivation, the social competencies and the learning-to-learn skills of NEET people through an effective and pleasurable learning process, in order to contribute to their employability and to increase the chances to improve their quality of life.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 334794 Eur

Project Coordinator

Konszenzus Alapítvány Budapesti Szervezete & Country: HU

Project Partners

• European Digital Learning Network
• Fundación Cultural Privada Empresa-Universidad de Zaragoza
• ASSERTED KNOWLEDGE OMORRYTHMOS ETAIREIA
• Országos Gyermekvédő Liga
• Udruga roditelja “Korak po korak”