To understand the causes, consequences and profiles of cyberbullying and suicide among our target students during the school years coinciding with the development of this project, as well as to detect ways to identify and prevent it. Develop an intervention workshop during the first year of the project, in all the languages of the participating partners, for vocational training students to teach them how to detect and prevent cyberbullying through the development of students' emotional intelligence, participatory methodologies applied to the process of change, and the development of soft skills. Implement this workshop during the second year of the project in vocational training centres in all partner countries. Make our results available to other vocational training centres in the European Union. All these objectives, in a cross-cutting manner, as will be detailed in each of the activities, will take into account environmental sustainability, inclusion, diversity, democratic participation and the digital dimension.
We requested the project because suicide has become the leading cause of death among young people in Spain. The WHO has long warned that the mental health of the world's population is fragile and a public health issue that many countries are not addressing. With regard to cyberbullying, 24.4% of students believe that someone in their class is being bullied. We can confirm that 15% of schoolchildren suffer harassment on social media (Pereda O, 2022). The needs addressed were to promote self-awareness and emotional management. It has been shown that low social competence is associated with aggressive, disruptive and conflict-instigating behaviours (Martínez et al., 2016), including bullying (Gómez-Ortiz et al., 2017). Increasing students' emotional skills has had a direct impact on the prevention of bullying and cyberbullying.