Proposed project addresses to the needs of partner organizations to have better prepared for the challenges informational society brings to our lives. Online dimension and the potential negative impact on democratic development amplify its risks and gives new reasons for concern among young people and organizations working in education. Project aim is raise awareness on childrens cyberbullying and hate speach and to provide a widely usable training solutions and cyberbullying prevention and critical thinking skills through partner cooperation and exchange of expertise, methodologies and good practices in order to reduce the effects and consequences in EU. The specific objectives of project are: -to protect pupils from hate speech, media fake news, bullying in new medial by incorporating critical thinking of professionals in the field (social work, teaching, nursing) as well as their clients, as well as intervention methodology including mentoring approach. -to strengthen the links between between primary and secondary prevention approach, by raising the awareness of young professional and vulnerable young people, in terms of recognizing forms and characteristics of cyberbullying and online hate speech identifying ways of interventions and reactions, and finding solutions to negative effects of this phenomenon -To develop skills and knowledge of teachers to protect their young pupils from cyberbullying and online hate speech. -To prevent cyberbullying, online hate speech and media fake news by improving critical thinking skills of teachers and pupils. The project will be carried out with the participation of the partner organizations from 4 countries (Romania, Turkey, Spain, Lithuania) to enforce the quality of the results and the exchange of best practices, as well as to foster the positive impact of the project at European level.
The specific objectives of project are: - to protect pupils from hate speech, media fake news, bullying in new medial by incorporating critical thinking of professionals in the field (social work, teaching, nursing) as well as their clients, as well as intervention methodology including mentoring approach; - to strengthen the links between between primary and secondary prevention approach, by raising the awareness of young professional and vulnerable young people, in terms of recognizing forms and characteristics of cyberbullying and online hate speech identifying ways of interventions and reactions, and finding solutions to negative effects of this phenomenon; - to develop skills and knowledge of teachers to protect their young pupils from cyberbullying and online hate speech; - to prevent cyberbullying, online hate speech and media fake news by improving critical thinking skills of teachers and pupils. - increased interest of schools, teachers training centers, NGO and other organizations, informed about cyberbullying and online hate speech; - increased of satisfaction of pupils, participated in training.
The access to the media, news and internet is worldwide and thus informational societies of nowadays brings great potential as well as threats. The right to freedom of expression is one of the main pillars of the democratic society we are living in. The target groups of hate speech are different, but usually are built upon their “differentiation”. Thus to focus on professionals who are working with schools pupils is in the center of this project. With the rapid development of the internet and information technologies, internet use by adolescents has risen. There is an urge need to support teachers, social workers, schools nurses working with pupils affected by cyberbullying in worked-based learning about media literacy and impact of hate speech to the real life of children, ensuring the link between education and real life. The stronger the link, the easier is possibility to combat the negative effect of hate speech and bullying in case of children, as well as in own case of each person. Building this knowledge is necessary to bring adequate competencies to the teachers, and contribute to raising. The main needs was to increase awareness about cyberbullying and hate speech in internet among school pupil.