Together Everyone Can Prevent Cyberbullying Erasmus Project

Project Title

Together Everyone Can Prevent Cyberbullying

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Open and distance learning

Project Summary

Now that so many classrooms across the world have moved totally or partially online, to stop the spread of COVID-19, children of all ages are spending a lot more time in the virtual world. They are using social media & apps more frequently than in the past. Although there is much good that can come from these online interactions, they are not without risks. According to L1ght, an organization that monitors online harassment & hate speech, there has been a 70% increase in cyberbullying in just a matter of months, from 4%–72%. They also found a 40% increase in toxicity on online gaming platforms, a 900% increase in hate speech & a 200% increase in traffic to hate sites.
Prepared or not prepared, teachers and students (and parents) are forced to use online platforms for learning. The TECPC project raises an alarm about digital education readiness; teachers & educational systems are very focused on how to learn in short time how to make the education to survive through the use of hybrid & digital platforms teaching, but they eliminate the risks to the huge exposure to the online life. Unfortunately more time online creates more opportunities for harassment.
The project will support the practice of digital competences of teachers and school counsellors, including the development and use of an open educational platform with an open course and free and open source educational software for learning about the cyberbullying. The project will promote innovative methods and tools for teaching, training, and learning about the benefits of the fight against cyberbullying in order to promote an inclusive education, non-violent attitudes and a netiquette in digital communication and learning. The TECPC project will train the teachers, school counsellors and parents to be involved in the online life of their children and how to transform the internet in a safe and advantage place for the teaching-learning process.
The TECPC project is a comprehensive approach to address the prevention, recognition and intervention of online harassment against its cruel social, psychological-medical & educational impact for children & teens. The project empower educators, counsellors, parents, students, from the primary to secondary education level, with knowledge of how to prevent & respond to cyberbullying in the digital era, by providing specialised guidance, training & proactively engage the actors in educational games & activities to learn about signs of cyberbullying & how to approach different situations in case.
The project specific objectives:
– To prevent Cyberbullying by the engagement of multiple resources and expanding the effort beyond the school, for this reason educators, school counsellors, parents, students (victims, bullies, witnesses of cyberbullying), and community members will cooperate and interconnect, during the entire period of the project.
– To focus on building capacity to implement online, blended & distance learning, developing digital pedagogical competences of educators enabling them to deliver high quality inclusive digital education, by making use of innovative online resources & tools, within the proposed IOs.
– To study the impact of the cyberbullying and the intervention strategies with the aim to establish the profiles of the cyberbullying aggressor-victim, for a better identification of the signs of cyberbullying per age category and distribution channels, within IO1.
– To equip the schools and educators with clear guidance materials addressing the prevention, recognition and intervention of online harassment against its cruel social and psychological-medical impact for children in the digital era, within IO2.
– To offer free and easy online access to educators to train their knowledge and competences concerning the pedagogical approach of preventing cyberbullying among students, within IO3.
– To proactively engage children and parents in educational games and activities to learn about signs of cyberbullying and how to approach different situations in case, within IO4.
The project results:
IO1 – Psychological profiles of Cyberbullying (perpetrators and cyberbullied victims) & Signs of cyberbullying per age category
IO2 – TECPC Handbook, with focus on 3 approaches of cyberbullying: social impact, psychological-medical impact, digital competences & IT safety rules; with specific actions for teachers, school counsellors, cyberbullying witnesses, parents
IO3 –TECPC Online Course for educators (theoretical and practical part)
IO4 – TECPC Mobile App, including Educational games for children and parents, based on scenarios (famous cases, school situations collection, videos, drawings) with approach solutions and quizzes
C1. Together Everyone Can Prevent Cyberbullying Course for educators/trainers
Multiplier evens in 6 countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 248300 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE GRIGORE T POPA DIN IASI & Country: RO

Project Partners

• MAKE IT PEDAGOGICAL
• PIXEL – ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE
• COLEGIUL ECONOMIC “VIRGIL MADGEARU” BUCURESTI
• SOROS INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
• Cukurova Ilce Milli Egitim Mudurlugu
• K MILIOS AND SIA OE
• Scoala Primara EuroEd