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From peer to peer: European schools cooperating to be bullying-free

2016-1-ES01-KA201-0255012016Strategic Partnerships for school educationfinalized
Countries: ES|PT|HU|RO|BE|IT|EL · Grant: €117,785
Inclusion - equityQuality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)Early School Leaving / combating failure in education

Project summary

The project aims to contribute to a better education from the point of view of social inclusion, combating discrimination, segregation and bullying. In this sense, it aims to provide support and tools to schools that address situations of bullying, discrimination and bullying day, affecting the proper growth and development of students, with the aim of achieving more inclusive educational processes, generated from the base and the people involved in phenomena as the main protagonists.The partners involved in the project represent different realities of the phenomenon of bullying in the European Union (Spain, Belgium, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Romania and Portugal) and have a great experience in the education sector. With different programs and activities to achieve a more inclusive education, applying different measures to eliminate violence classroom and achieve social integration of all students, especially those belonging to ethnic minorities and groups at risk of social exclusion.It is estimated that the direct beneficiaries of the activities will be about 1200 people among students of different schools in the territories, teachers of themselves, their families, etc. In this sense, the project partner organizations different participatory activities will be undertaken in order to involve as many people as possible. In this regard, they will participate in activities at the local level to develop as shall be: (x8) workshops, (x4) conferences, (x8) sectoral meetings (forums) and other activities for the development of intellectual products. The project defines a set of objectives and a work plan to be followed by the project partners, who should be gathering experience and information and generating project outputs based on the results obtained in the different activities proposed. In addition, they planned a series intellectual products that capitalize project results and will be available to all interested educational community. This is intended that the project will be continued by the European educational community autonomously and improving day by day. In the long term development of comparable methodologies are expected by European education systems to achieve a more inclusive education at all levels and in which school life of students allows everyone without exception proper emotional, physical and intellectual development.

Final report summary

Bullying and cyberbullying also occur beyond the school setting. The school is not the cause or the only place where it takes place, but the causes can be found in the various contexts in which life goes on during childhood and adolescence, such as family, school or neighborhood. That is why it was necessary for the From Peer to Peer project approach to be community, territorial and integral, if we wanted to act with coherence and effectiveness. The issues of bullying, violent relationships or disabling inside and outside schools leaked as cases specific in the education departments, and in other municipal areas of the different territories of the EU. In this sense, the European Union itself is worried about this problem and in 2013 adopted a declaration calling for a European day against bullying. However, in most cases of bullying, there is a situation in the schools of non-recognition, by passivity to name, generates a certain silence and justification for personal characteristics of those involved at all levels. This became a priority need on which to act. The loss of confidence in educational institutions to resolve the conflicts generated by the coexistence with the "different" (the martest, the fattest, the immigrant, the non-member of my group, etc.) led us to consider the need , if we wanted to make a significant change, to face this problem from a territorial (local, municipal, regional, national, European) and preventive approach, transcending the doors of each of the schools and generating a culture of teamwork and cooperation between all the parties involved. In this sense, it was necessary that there was cooperation at all levels, working with direct and indirect recipients. On the one hand, schoolchildren of different ages, families, teachers and local community, which have cooperated locally, and in each of the partner countries (Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Romania and Greece), in the execution of the activities proposed in the project, and on the other hand, a cooperation at the international level, where entities of different nature have come to collaborate, such as town halls, schools, universities, associations of educational and research centers, regional governments and formative entities of non-formal training. In this sense, a cooperation was proposed at two levels, which have worked in an interrelated manner, where the conclusions and progress that have been generated at the international level have been likewise, applied at the local level through workshops, conferences, meetings, pilot projects, etc. From this maquila, cooperation at the international level has worked as a source of good practices, ideas and collaborative learning among the seven project partners, and as a supervisor of the activities that have been carried out at the local level, evaluating the initiatives, their success and the possible points to improve. The objectives established for the project have been: -Know first hand how the phenomenon of bullying is being managed in other European countries. -Compare the situation of school coexistence in centers of different countries. -Apply, as far as possible, the experiences learned in our centers. -Promote a positive and socializing education. -Improve school coexistence. -Contribute to the eradication of all types of violence in childhood. -Promote interdisciplinary and multicultural training for teachers and professionals in the field of education. -Make a baseline study of the phenomenon and its management in the different target territories. -To compile the best practices in different intellectual products that serve as a basis for pedagogical material at the level European. -Create a work methodology based on the best practices found at European level and applicable in the centers school -Create pedagogical material that improves the capacity and the abilities of the teaching staff in the management of bullying, according to the new technologies and communication channels. -Exchange of experiences of application of the program As a result of international cooperation, the most important activities carried out have been: - The generation of an analysis on the situation of bullying in Europe and in the different participating countries, whose results have been reflected in various infographics; - The creation of a MOOC (Free Online and Massive Courses) that gathers the good practices of the partners on the subject, so that they can be transferred to other entities and professionals from all over Europe. - Completion of a specialized course in Leuven (Belgium) where representatives of partner organizations could deepen on the subject.

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