The project addresses students aged between 12 and 17, whose generations were born and have been raised in the age of digital technologies. The problem of internet security has become a global issue, regarding the entire civilized world.The aim of the project is to educate students, raising their awareness regarding the risks they assume when surfing the Internet, thus becoming more secure and responsible when using the online technology.There will be involved 8 schools and more than 800 teachers and students, but the there will be 5000 students, teachers, parents who will benefit from the project. The innovative character of the project is to approach from three perspectives of the problem (school-student-parent), bydeveloping the digital pupils' skills required for the European citizen who will live in a borderless space and facilitate student-student learning. The objectives are:O1.- to identify risks in surfing the Internet and their impact by analysing the opinion of more than 20% of the students in each partner school, until the end of the project;O2. – to encourage students to learn the rules of good behaviour when using the virtual environment and personal data, by disseminating best practices in using the virtual space to at least 20% of the number of students in each partner school, until the end of the project;O3.- to make known the rules of using personal data by setting a Regulation of good behaviour on the Internet,developed by 20% of the students in each partner school, until the end of the project;O4.- to develop documentary autonomy for 20% of the number of students in each partner school through research activities and documentation on the Internet, (includes supporting synergies between education, research and innovation activities, the digitisation of quality learning content and promoting the use of ICT)until the end of the project;O5.- to decrease the number of virtual bullying instances (cyberbullying), by implementing an optional course in each partner school for at least 20% of the number of students in each partner school, until the end of the project. The activities and expected results are: teachers’ and students’selection for the project team; meetings in each school, with the project team; logo contest; making PPT of each school and town and project web site; creating Erasmus+ Corner and the lesson plans for teachers about cyber bulling; researching and making comparative studies about cyber bulling in all partners countries and about the laws; making leaflets about safe rules on internet; organising workshops with students, lessons in classes about cyber bulling; students’ miniprojects on the eTwinning platform; writting articles about the project and newsletters; creating a video conference with all partners; creating written stories, essaises and videos which illustrated the consequenties of cyber bulling; visits to cyberbulling specialized institutes; writting a comparative glossary of acronyms used in virtual world, a guide for students with rules about safe in the virtual world, a guide for parents, a curricula for some elective courses about safe navigation on Internet and cyber bulling. There will be 3 transnational learning/teaching activities with students and teachers. At the end of the project the learning materials will be made public.There will be 3 project meetings. The impact on teachers consists in: developing project management competences, by writing some Erasmus KA2 project drafts used to be able to participate in project reunions with the purpose of finding potential future partners; raising European educational scope, by initiating ulterior projects with project-participating organizations; improving interrelation-related competences; developing management and financial management competences. The impact on students means: knowing the common-sense internet rules; developing English communication competences and European citizen’s civic competences; cultivation of a responsible behavior regarding internet surfing; raising interest and motivation for studying through participation in digital technology related classes. The impact on schools consist in: introduction of an optional course meant to watch over internet surfing safety; making management control and monitoring more effective through the expertise the project management team is to gain; developing European partnership relation; awareness of the role the school plays in promoting intercultural values. Adjacent schools will benefit from the project results, as well as the workshops initiated by the students.Parents will have free access to the good practice guide, also, their intensive involvement in the school life being expected, as well as their accountability regardingthe supervision and controlling their children’s internet activity.The prestige of each partner school will be raised inside the local community.
• Context/background of the project: In a digitalized world we live in, nowdays, the project was meant to be like a guide line for students aged between 12 and 17. The internet determines unlimited communication between people, and hence between children who are most exposed, since they are the ones who beat us, adults in mastering digital technologies. The problem of internet security has become a global issue, regarding the entire civilized world. • Objectives: O1.- to identify risks in surfing the Internet and their impact by analysing the opinion of more than 20% of the students in each partner school, until the end of the project; O2. – to encourage students to learn the rules of good behaviour when using the virtual environment and personal data, by disseminating best practices in using the virtual space to at least 20% of the number of students in each partner school, until the end of the project; O3.- to make known the rules of using personal data by setting a Regulation of good behaviour on the Internet,developed by 20% of the students in each partner school, until the end of the project; O4.- to develop documentary autonomy for 20% of the number of students in each partner school through research activities and documentation on the Internet, until the end of the project (includes supporting synergies between education, research and innovation activities, the digitisation of quality learning content and promoting the use of ICT); O5.- to decrease the number of virtual bullying instances (cyberbullying), by implementing an optional course in each partner school for at least 20% of the number of students in each partner school, until the end of the project. • Number and profile of participating organisations: In the project we involved 8 schools. Most of the partner schools, including the coordinating school, have conducted projects or activities on the use of digital technology or virtual aggression: Romania conducted the project "Deliberating in a Democracy" in which teachers taught on cyberbullying; Lithuania conducted the activity "Week Without bullying"; Italy is running a school project about virtual bullying combat; the Turkish partner school conducted extracurricular activities targeting desired behaviours within the the virtual community. Most schools have been involved in Gruntdvig, Comenius, eTwinning projects, Erasmus+ projects. On the other hand, in some of these schools, students came from disadvantaged backgrounds and from families with low education (Lithuania, Italy), not being aware of the rules for surfing on the Internet and the use of personal data. Each partner school had a history less rich in virtual instances of bullying among students. • Description of undertaken main activities: I. - project website, designed and built by the students of the coordinating school and guided by teachers; II. - common products: 1. Guide for students 2. Guide for teachers 3. Guide for parents 4. Optional course III. - products made by each school: - questionnaires about the cyberbullying; - students’ PPT presentations of the partner schools and of the cities where they are located; - PPT about cyberbulling; - PPT about laws against cyberbulling; - curricular support materials; - research studies about the virtual aggressio; - drafts for an optional course; - drafts for good practice guides for students, teachers and parents; - students’ essays contest My safe virtual world; - posters contest; - exhibitions with drawings about cyberbulling; - didactic projects; - case studies in the field, made by the students; - the logo of the project; - street campaigns; - workshops, seminars in school with students. • Results and impact attained: I. on teachers: - Creation of open relations, based on respect and cooperation; - Reaching a higher satisfaction, due to new professional development methods, through the usage of some innovative educational methods and techniques in class; - Improving the English language knowledge - Developing project management competences; - Raising European educational scope; - Improving interrelation-related competences; - Enriching knowledge of the foreign participating countries and cultures. - Improving IT and computer knowledge and abilities; - Improving motivation and self-confidence; - Improving the quality of the educational activity. II. on students: - Knowing the common-sense internet rules; - Developing English communication competences; - Developing the European citizen’s civic competences; - Cultivation of a responsible behavior regarding internet surfing; - Exchanging experience and knowledge with students from partner organizations; - Raising interest and motivation for studying; - Stimulation and value of creativity. • If relevant, longer-term benefits: - Gaining in each school competencies of management; - Initiation an Erasmus+ KA2 project; - Raising the school prestige; - Raising the European scope.