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"We know that approximately 40% of European teenagers and children have already faced a situation of bullying at school. In Belgium, one person out of two has already witnessed a situation of bullying. When we consider the serious impact of school bullying on mental health, physical health and school leaving, we understand the urgency of targeting this problem. Indeed, school bullying can lead to anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, absenteeism, disengagement, early school-leaving as well as low concentration and social difficulties. We are, as teaching institutions, responsible for these problems as they are due to our inability to create a safe learning environment for our students. Of course, we know that this issue has been tackled by many international organisations. That is why we would like our approach to be a bit different. Indeed, the objective of the project would be to use our students’ ways of communication in order to address the victims, the bullying perpetrators and the witnesses directly. In fact, the lack of communication is an issue these days (in spite of all the modern means of communication available), especially when it comes to teenagers. Bullying isn’t talked about enough, parents, teachers and students don’t know about its causes and effects and emotional health isn’t a topic that is talked about on a regular basis. We would like to work on communication and use modern means of communication in order to create an anti-bullying campaign and to turn all the project participants into anti-bullying ambassadors. The participants will be selected among the four European partners that were chosen because of the numerous actions they have already implemented against bullying. Belgium has created an anti-bullying cell and is also the coordinator of the project. Italy has taken part in staff training sessions against cyber-bullying on eTwinning and has met the local police on the subject. They are also planning to create a specialised figure in the school to support teachers and students facing this kind of situation. Spain has already created this figure: student have been trained to become ""mediators"". They have also attended talks about bullying and cyber-bullying that the local police officers gave in their school. Finally, they have created an anonymous email address for anyone who has something to report about bullying. Croatia has already participated in a similar project on cyber-bullying. Within the framework of this project, they wrote and performed a play on bullying. We think that we can say that all the participating partners have been highly concerned by the issue of bullying for a long time. Each partner will create a Project Team of 20 students and approximately 6 adults chosen on the basis of their eagerness to become anti-bullying ambassadors in their school. In order to do that, the project will be divided into four mobility activities. Before each activity, the Project Team will meet to prepare the activity (accommodation, transport, flight, programme, ...). Between 6 and 7 students and 2 adults will travel. The first mobility activity will aim at getting to know each other, sharing truthful experiences, gathering information and assess the various situational contexts in which bullying can occur and how each is best addressed. At the end of this activity, boards and leaflets (translated into each partner's mother tongue) will be created and broadcast in each school. The second mobility activity will be aimed at writing, filming and broadcasting three videos on bullying made with the help of a trainer. The third activity's objective will be to train the participants to become anti-bullying ambassadors by deciding how they will present the material created so far to their peers. The fourth activity will aim to assess the ambassadors' presentations in each country and improve it for the future generations. During each activity the welcoming country will present its educational system and school organisation. The welcoming school will also show the participants what has been implemented against bullying. The results of the project will be the boards, the leaflets, the videos and the presentation of our ambassadors (all the participants). These presentations should be attended by all the students of each participating school but also by students from other schools. Indeed, the ambassadors will also give a talk in other schools in an attempt to make more and more students, teachers and parents (thanks to the leaflets) aware of the problem of bullying and its solutions. On top of that, our ambassadors' presentation should be reused at the beginning of every school year in order to make new students aware of this problem and its solutions."
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