ProSocial Values will address the challenge of social inclusion and education by helping children from 5 to 15 years old learn prosocial skills, develop positive interpersonal relationships and therefore foster social coexistence and individual empowerment. The means through which this change will be achieved are an international community of schools cooperating in the promotion of activities at national and international level, a specific training for the teachers and a set of serious games to involve pupils and improve their prosocial skills. During the first year the project partners will focus on the identification of strong theoretical basis about prosociality and the use of the game in children’ education thus to develop the further outputs more competently. The starting basis of the project will be completed by the analysis of the needs of the teachers since they will be the first promoter of the community. Their knowledges and necessity in the field of prosocial education will be gathered and analysed as well as the practices and the activities already put in place, with a particular attention to the recreational aspect and the possibility to transform this ideas in new games. A database of serious games on prosociality will be collected. A specific plan of action to create, develop and strengthen the ProSocial Values Community will be written considering the national and international necessities. These actions will create a solid basis for the development of the training of the teachers responsible for their local communities. As an integration to the training (available also in a specific digital platform), an online srious game about prosociality, with different levels of difficulty will be developed. Once the teachers will be trained on specific methods to teach the prosocial values, the research phase will start and the social improvements in the involved schools will be measured and analysed. Two international conferences, local seminars and workshops and three newsletter will contribute to the dissemination and exploitation of the results of the project.
ProSocial Values project has been written to bring about a change in society through the promotion of values such as solidarity, inclusion, cooperation, empathy, multiculturalism, respect for the environment, etc. This project has addressed the social challenge of inclusion by helping children from 5 to 15 years old to learn prosocial values and develop positive interpersonal relationships. This social change has been pursued through the creation of an international community of educational institutions and schools cooperating in the promotion of activities at the national and international level. This prosocial community network has been called "Nobody Less" to express the ideal of inclusion and highlight the openness of the community. The promotion of prosocial values in the classroom is facilitated by a non-formal educational approach and the use of game-based teaching strategies. Thus, the project partners have collected online digital games that can be used by the teachers to promote prosocial values. Free from charges games have been analysed and described considering the way they can be used in a lesson plan. To increase the skills of the teachers, the partners have created a curriculum for teachers’ training, developing 8 modules on innovative and engaging methods to promote prosociality through game-based teaching or other non-formal activities. Furthermore, the partnership has set an online training platform, including an informal assessing tool for learning, based on gamification methodology. The online training platform has been accessed by about 11.000 users. In the final part of the project, the partners have implemented a piloting phase to assess the impact of experimental educational activities on the student’s prosocial attitude. An evaluation tool based on self-reflection questionnaire has been developed to this scope. The piloting activities have involved a total of 620 students aged from 8 to 15 years old. The analysis of the data collected using the evaluation tool has demonstrated a positive increase in the average value of the students’ prosocial attitude. ProSocial Values has aimed at having an important impact at the social level, to reach that goal several public events have been organized. 2 main multiplier events took place during the project involving a total of 985 participants: the first one in Skopje on May 2019, the second one online (due to COVID19 emergency) on September 2020. The partnership has also organized other public events at the national and regional level to involve institutions and schools in the "Nobody Less" community network. The most important public events organized in the framework of the project have been the “Prosocial Weeks”: moments in which teachers and children have implemented activities and events to promote the prosocial values in their schools and to the local community with the support of the project’s partners. More than 14.000 students have taken part in these events. The main target groups of the project have been Teachers, school directors, children, parents, decision and policy-makers, researchers and university professors, professionals in the field of education and project managers. Thanks to the commitment of the project partners, the community network "Nobody Less" includes members from 16 European and extra-European countries and new institutions are in the process of becoming members. The close collaboration that has been created between “Nobody Less” members has led to the writing of new projects inspired to the prosocial values.