SUPPORTING PARENTS TO DEAL WITH THE EXCESSIVE ONLINE TIME AND HABITS OF THEIR CHILDREN: A PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMME FOR ALL Erasmus Project

Project Title

SUPPORTING PARENTS TO DEAL WITH THE EXCESSIVE ONLINE TIME AND HABITS OF THEIR CHILDREN: A PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION PROGRAMME FOR ALL

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: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Have you ever been in a situation where your own daughter was begging you for attention while you were on-line sending emails or going through your FB? The STEPin project is all about supporting parents to become role models for their children and motivators for using their time on-line in a sensible and constructive way while promoting the well-being of their children and the healthy life style of their families.
The project addresses the following priorities:
ADULT EDUCATION: Increasing the demand and take-up through effective outreach, guidance and motivation strategies
HORIZONTAL: Innovative practices in a digital eraHORIZONTAL: Supporting educators, youth workers, educational leaders and supporting staff
Most parents having school children aged over 10, belong to another less-digital generation themselves, feel powerless to face these dangers, prevent their childrens’ or even their own excessive exposure on the internet, protect them and deal with potential abusive behavior.

Apart from the above, parents themselves, as adults, face related problems. For adults-parents this becomes especially difficult if one considers that 40% of adults in EU have insufficient digital skills (Eurostat 2018) and even those possessing a real command of digital skills often lack the attitude to put them to full use: only 2% of the digitally competent can demonstrate critical thinking while searching for information online (EU,2017).

In addressing the above, the project will map out the current scene in all countries, record efforts to deal with Internet Abusing Behaviour/Addiction, as seen in children’s and young people’s (10-18yrs) attitudes, while proposing a series of actions: targeted upskilling programmes for parents/educators, delivered in an engaging social learning environment and build around the concept of learner motivation. Motivational workflows designed around the awarding of badges following the accomplishment of single mode or team challenges will immerse learners in a social learning context to help them achieve their screen reduction goals.
Furthermore, the project goes even further by exploiting the role of parents as AMBASSADORS/ ROLE MODELS catering for the well-being of their children while introducing healthy life style within their families. Motivational activities will be organized to to encourage parents to reflect on their habits first by reducing their screen time and then to assess, identify, prevent or deal with their childrens’ on-line behavior.

7 organisations from the UK, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, Macedonia, Slovenia and Croatia will work together in this challenging project complementing each other in terms of expertise and experience, but with a common aim: to support parents in order to be able to identify, prevent or deal with internet abusive behaviours while improving the well-being of their families.

4 main Intellectual Outputs will be produceds: recording tool for good practices, peer review report, assessment tool for measuring and monitoring IAB, platform with help desk for parents, educational pack with learning material for adult educators and a strong awareness raising campaign.
5 multiplier events are planned to disseminate the products and results of the project.
It is expected that by the end of the project:
– Adult organisations will upgrade their tools and teaching resources
– Adult educators will strengthen their profiles in dealing with IAB issues
– Parents will be more prepared and aware of how to recognize symptoms and deal with their parents’ IAB
– Parents will be able to understand the triggering factors of IAB and prevent them

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 322670 Eur

Project Coordinator

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER & Country: DE

Project Partners

• RAZVOJNO IZOBRAZEVALNI CENTER NOVOMESTO
• Udruga roditelja “Korak po korak”
• THE NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
• ASSERTED KNOWLEDGE OMORRYTHMOS ETAIREIA
• A & A Emphasys Interactive Solutions Ltd
• Family and Childcare Center – branch in Skopje