Concrete objectives we wanted to achieve: • meet the needs of participants and transfer them to their institutions, cities and countries in the prevention of bullying; • increase the awareness of our schools in peer bullying and to gain international competence in combating it; • minimize the number of cases of bullying and prevent early school leaving; • Improve our institutional capacities with innovative approaches; • present an innovative vision to our institutions regarding digitalization and social skills with the activities to be done; • create organizations that are conscious about cyberbullying and have high awareness of the dangers and of the ways to avoid them; • improve the use of internet and internet tools, have digital ethical principles that comply with e-Safety principles; • raise trust in our schools through communication and cooperation with parents, students, teachers and schools by addressing the issue of inclusion; • promoting equality and non-discrimination.
All individuals have the right to benefit from education equally. It is our duty to create a high-quality education environment without being bullied in our schools. The most common problem in all European schools is peer bullying and our schools face it as well. The numbers of peer bullying in our countries and in our schools are still high, even if there are local/national projects to try and combat them. We observe that this issue impacts school environment, decreases our students’ academic success and impacts early school dropout numbers. We wrote this project to effectively combat peer bullying by sharing experiences and good practices in our schools, by contacting and communicating with different people with similar problems, and also by learning different techniques and finding new and effective approaches ( e-g- KiVA method).