The values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination are cornerstones of European societies. Bullying at schools damages these values. It is a key factor in early school leaving, and has serious and long-term effects.The theme of our Project is connected to 2015 Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education. In the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training (ET 2020) “Inclusive education, equality, nondiscrimination “ and “tackling discrimination, racism, segregation, bullying, violence and stereotypes” are some of the priorities.After searching the bullying phenomenon around Europe, the coordinator designed a survey at school asking questions to the students: " Have you ever been bullied or met a child who had been bullied?" A quarter of the students answered "Yes". To share good practises for preventing bullying with other European schools, we created a post on e-twinning and 5 schools with same aim came together. There are 5 primary schools from Turkey, Romania, Belgium, Spain and Portugal in our Project. Nearly 3000 students and 110 teachers will directly and indirectly will be involved in the Project from 5 partner schools.There will be an opening meeting in Turkey where we will discuss about the dissemination, implementation of the Project and next LTTs. There will be a short term joint staff training even in Spain and 2 short term pupil Exchange activities in Belgium and Romania. We will also organize the final meeting in Portugal where we will write the end report together. Concrete results and outputs are the website and the twinspace, short films by pupils and families , a rap song composed by students on befriending, posters created by the students on “ befriending not bullying”, workshops , teachers and parents, an informational brochure on the theme, tshirt designs, “Draw and paint your rights” contest , a calendar with the pictures from “draw and paint your rights" contest, a project logo, an e-twinning project the same as our KA229 project and the Project website . The project will contribute to raise awareness on violence against children and to respect diversity in our schools and to promote peace and tolerance among pupils of different European countries, enriching intercultural awareness. We would like to work on the bullying problem in an international level. Exchanging ideas and experiences would open us new doors to feel ourselves as European Citizens. Objectives of our Project are to reduce bullying at the schools by 10% by teacher trainings , students’ and parents” activities and pupil exchanging activities. To share European good practices . To make the participants aware of children rights, discrimination and bullying. To increase the degree of awareness about bullying and to develop an anti-bulling school policy. To compare the causes and effects of bullying in schools. To promote peace and mutual understanding among pupils. To strengthen and enrich intercultural awareness and dialogue between different ethnic groups, migrants and refugee, by the project activities such based on music and art, which are international languages of communication. To learn to empathise with others to challenge prejudice and discrimination.To strengthen students' and teachers' digital skills and the level in foreign languages. To challenge prejudice. The methodoligies to be used in carrying out the projects are critical thinking , peer works and team works, pre-surveys and the last surveys, observation forms, presentations, evaluation forms after each LTT and the final report. The expected results are: Increased motivation to learn English, a strong feeling of belonging to "the one European community", reduced violence in partner schools. A newly developed anti-bullying school policy, an increase of the academic level of the students who were bullied before, improved digital skills, higher adaptation of the teachers in European educational community. Lastly teachers and parents will learn their roles and responsibilities to deal with bullying. In the long term, the violence at partner schools will decrease due to the activities with friendship messages. Once the project ends, the students and teachers will continue studying these languages. Their digital skill will help them use their improved digital skills in their lives, professions and new EU projects in long term.
The values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination are cornerstones of European societies. Bullying at schools damages that. It is a factor in early school leaving, and has long-term effects. The theme of our Project is connected to Paris Declaration on promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education. In the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training “Inclusive education, equality, non-discrimination “ and “tackling discrimination, racism, segregation, bullying, violence and stereotypes” are priorities. After searching the bullying phenomenon around Europe, the coordinator designed a survey asking: " Have you ever been bullied or met a child who had been bullied?" A quarter answered "Yes". To share good practices for preventing bullying, we created a post on eTwinning and 5 schools with the same aim came together. The objective was to reduce bullying at the schools by 10% by teacher training, students’ and parents’ activities and pupil exchange activities. We wanted to obtain this goal by sharing good practices. The project activities are based on music and art, which are international languages of communication. This main objective can be split up in smaller objectives such as: Making the participants aware of children rights, discrimination and bullying Increasing the degree of awareness about bullying Developing an anti-bullying policy Comparing the causes and effects. Promoting peace and understanding Strengthen and enrich intercultural awareness and dialogue between different ethnic groups, migrants and refugees, Learning to empathise with others to challenge prejudice and discrimination. Strengthen digital skills Improving foreign languages. The 5 primary schools are from Turkey, Romania, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. Nearly 3000 students and 110 teachers were involved. There was an opening meeting in Turkey from 6th until 10th November ‘19. In Turkey we discussed the dissemination, implementation of the Project and the next LTTs. Each partner made a presentation of his school. To give the project visibility we created from the start of the project an informational brochure, a website and a Twinspace. Between September ‘19 and June ‘22 we implemented all the in classroom activities such as: design of a project logo, the making of an Erasmus corner, the organisation of a European Day of Languages, the making of posters, the creation of bookmarks, the activities on children rights, the organisation of an anti-bullying week, the making of a rap song, the realisation of the t-shirt designs contest, the realisation of a digital book with poetry and the making of a calendar. In April ‘22 we organised the short-term joint staff training event in Madrid. The subject of this training was cyberbullying. Beside that each school presented his anti-bullying policy. In May ‘22 we organised the Short-term exchange of groups of pupils in Belgium, ‘Playing without prejudice’. 26 Turkish students joined virtually. In June ‘22 we organised the Short-term exchange of pupils in Romania, ‘Drama against bullying’. 52 Turkish students joined virtually. After the exchange in Romania we made in each school the short-films on ‘befriending not bullying’ as closing of the project. In July ‘22 we organised the final meeting in Madeira to write the report. The concrete results are described above by giving the project visibility and doing the activities.Each school now has an anti-bullying school policy or made an optimization of it. As a result of these things the project contributed to raise awareness on violence against children, taught students and teachers to respect diversity in our schools and to promote peace and tolerance among pupils of different countries. It enriched the intercultural awareness. We worked on the bullying problem on an international level. Exchanging ideas and experiences opened us new doors to feel ourselves as European Citizens. The project made sure there was a dissemination of knowledge on anti-bullying projects. There was a share of European good practices. There is among the students an increased motivation to learn English, a strong feeling of belonging to "the one European community" and violence is reduced in the partner schools. Teachers and students improved their digital skills, there is a higher adaptation of the teachers in the European educational community. Lastly teachers and parents learned their roles and responsibilities to deal with bullying. In the long term, the violence at partner schools will decrease due to the activities with friendship messages. Students and teachers continue studying English. Their digital skills help them in their lives. The partners will continue organising some activities such as the anti-bullying week and can (re)use the developed activities and lesson plans. EU-projects have the interest of all participants.