The general objective is to equip sports and socio/cultural operators with the key skills to identify the victims and agents of cyberbullying in leisure contexts, combating, preventing and raising awareness against the phenomenon, aimed at the age group from 6 to 18 years. GUARD 2 pays attention to adolescents as the main targets of the threat. We created a Training Module tested with operators of partner organizations. Main outcome: Training Module, necessary for raising awareness and training the operators who will assume the role of cultural antennas to intercept and prevent cases of cyberbullying in leisure contexts among minors Priorities: a) addressing digital transformation. Provide expertise and soft skills to sports and socio-cultural operators b) Improving the competences. Increase the skills and soft skills of sports and socio-cultural operators c) Inclusion and diversity. Intervene against cyberbullying of minors with actions that prevent their risk of exclusion. Gender: adolescents and girls are more affected by the percentage cyberbullying d) Initial and continuous training. Lifelong training learning of the operators who acquire new skills e) Prevention of bullying. f) Digital content, technologies and practices
The motivation of GUARD 2 is linked to the transformation of our way of communicating thanks to new digital technologies. They certainly offer new opportunities but they also represent risks such as the uncontrolled phenomenon of cyberbullying which afflicts adolescents and increasingly also children. Research clearly highlights how this is one of the biggest risks of a teenager starting his digital life. Most of the available data concerns surveys conducted in industrialized countries with percentages of minors who have experienced it, which vary between 5% and 20% of the juvenile population, with harmful psychophysical consequences and broad social implications, both for the victims and for the authors: among these, there is personal social development, education and psycho-physical well-being of minors, with negative effects that can continue into adulthood and which may also reduce the effectiveness of public investments in education and in the well-being of children in every country (Unicef). In Europe there is no uniform definition of Cyberbullying. Countries in where online harassment, blackmail and extortion are not considered bullying. Countries where the phenomenon is practically ignored.