Project BY
I DO NOT WANT
TO BE BULLIED
Teenage bullying is a very real problem in schools which isn’t always physical. There are many different types of bullying, including verbal and emotional bullying. These types of bullying, though more subtle than physical bullying, can still have a large impact on a student.
About The Project
Project With a Passion While Healing Emotional Wonds
One of the two EU 2020 headline targets for education is to reduce early school leaving to a 10 % average across the EU. Bullying is directly recognized as affecting early school leaving in the Annex to the Council Recommendation on Early School Leaving (2011): ‘At the level of the school or training institution strategies against early school leaving are embedded in an overall school development policy.
They aim at creating a positive learning environment, reinforcing pedagogical quality and innovation, enhancing teaching staff competences to deal with social and cultural diversity, and developing anti-violence and anti-bullying approaches’. The EU Council Recommendation (2011) on early school leaving also acknowledges that: ‘Targeted individual support is especially important for young people in situations of serious social or emotional distress which hinders them from continuing education or training’
The milestones of the project are:
1-pre-departure online training
Deepen the understanding of the involved participants in the subsequent YE;
2-a youth exchange
Effectively and efficiently facilitates the participants to acquire their desired skills, competencies and knowledge, with the involvement of the local civilian population.
Specific objectives
To develop action plan and effective strategies among the partners.
To support participants, local actors and youngsters to understand, identify and prevent bullying and realize its impact in youth life and to reveal the invisible rules that are the basis of stereotypes and violence.
To develop an educational practice that encourages the free expression of personality and curiosity about others, thereby preventing bullying and violence and promoting a good climate in the classrooms, youth centers and communities.
To develop specific youth activities orientated to improve a cooperative work, education in values and feelings, favoring and promoting the interpersonal positive relations between youngsters.
To promote the participation of the NGOs in the strategy of prevention of anti¬social behaviors
As many countries do not have a common national protocol against bullying in schools/universities, it is important to underline that each country tried to suggest solutions and strategies to tackle and combat the phenomenon. It is a necessary project, which will try to defend the solidarity and the social consistency of modern Europe. It will facilitate the discovery of the right solutions, of good, realistic and practical actions that will come up through effective conversations, with the purpose to confront and to erase these modern social matters through common action.
Another interesting aspect of the project is the direct contribution of locals (authorities, high-school, NGOs) in a project with a holistic approach involving youngsters, pupils, teachers and the community in general. A special focus will be pointed to the understanding of the values of the “third” position that offers potential strategies to interrupt bullying as well as to prevent it.
Activities
The Put a Stop to Bullying project will take place in Varna vicinity, Bulgaria between January 2021 and August 2022 and will include a Youth Exchange from July 8th until July 16th 2022. The main objective of our project is to help young people to develop skills, knowledge and competencies to recognize bullying, violence, harassment and antisocial behaviors in general and to get better understanding of the impact they have in the community.
Impact
By this project we expect to bring positive and long-lasting effects on the participants and participating organizations involved, as well as on the NGOs in which such activities are framed. We believe participants will be able to sense the violent behavior as a non-greeted anomaly of modern society and will be able to eliminate examples of bullying of any kind in their surroundings.
Learning performance
Improve learning performance by the different methods of learning that we will use during the project, especially during the mobility;
Sense of Initiative
Increase sense of initiative and entrepreneurship by the new follow-up ideas, transformed into real projects;
self-empowerment
Increase self-empowerment and self-esteem (first activity from day 3);
Foreign language competences
Improve foreign language competences by working for 7 days during the mobility in English;
Inter-cultural awareness
Enhance inter-cultural awareness through cultural activities (Culture trip, Culture evenings);
Active participation
More active participation in society and positive attitude towards the European project and the EU values;
Stakeholders Impact
Before their arrival, the Youth will carry out an analysis of the potential local stakeholders with the aim of:
- Generate changes towards stereotyped concepts of difference.
- Involve national policies in a careful reflection on anti-social behavior.
- Have the methods from the YE adopted in schools, universities, local communities, etc.
- Involve teaching staff to use the methodology and tools produced by the project.
- Produce political debate within the European commission on the topic of anti-social behavior.
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- Day 5
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- Day 7
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- Day 9
