We wanted to achieve the objectives: 1. Reduce bullying, prejudice, discrimination in students' behavior from target group 2. Integrate disadvantaged and refugee students while achieving human solidarity by manifesting for peace, standing against war in Ukraine, helping Ukrainian refugee students integrate in European community 3. Integrate the principle that life has rights to live and let live in students' mentality and behaviour towards people and life in nature, including all living beings We planned to achieve the results: - Guide Life Has Rights - book/collection of innovative methods, pedagogical approach to reduce bullying in schools - videos made by students on subject of life has rights; - power point presentations about protecting nature - brochure about equality and types of discrimination - brochure about human rights - brochure about life stories of Ukrainian refugee children and messages of peace - PPT presentations about wars in history and their devastating consequences - posters and drawings about reducing bullying, about solidarity and peace, about protecting the environment - essays about the future, how the world can become better We wanted to achieve an improvement in our students' mentality and behaviour.
We applied for this project after we identified the main need in our schools to reduce bullying among students, to improve empathy, responsibility and reduce aggressive attitudes.100% of students answered that they witnessed a colleague being bullied and 60% of students confessed they were victims of bullying in school. Most of the respondents were victims of verbal or emotional aggression or threats and some of them were even victims of physical bullying. Some of the older age groups were also victims of cyberbullying. The need to implement activities that address these problems was the main motivation for our project. We planned to implement a set of pedagogical approaches to help students improve their behaviour, to acquire the principle of respect for life, for others. We also wanted to integrate disadvantaged students and refugee students from Ukraine, to encourage solidarity and reduce prejudice, reduce discrimination of any type. Our project was motivated by the need to educate our students to cooperate peacefully, to improve their mentality, to eliminate discriminatory attitudes in school. We wanted to help students include in their minds and habits the principle that life has rights in school, in society, in nature.