The ABC (Anti-Bullying Certification) project aims to develop a certification process to support schools in developing an effective anti-bullying policy, which includes sensitive attention to more general social inclusion and to 21th Century conflict solving skills among both students and school staff.
Objectives
- To create more safety in secondary schools on the level of students, including socially marginalized groups
- To support teaching staff in developing competences to deal with conflict, bullying, social exclusion and discrimination, with special attention to minors groups
- To support school managers to guide and facilitate a school innovation process towards these ends
- To start a discussion in EU Member States on more effective ways to make school safer and to meliorate citizenship education
- To develop a sustainable way to continuously stimulate and support anti-bullying and social inclusion policies on the European level.
Results
- Certification Procedure – a social competence and citizenship quality assurance system
- International Learning Activities in Italy with students and teachers
- School safety survey: two questionnaires target to secondary school students and secondary school staff
- Interventions Toolkit available online with description, objectives, context, expected impact and possible variation for its use in specific situations
- Manual for trainers and education materials for the implementation of School Visitations and Trainings
Activities
- Researching of good practices that aim to prevent and/or tackle bullying
- Developing Certification Procedure that will enable participating schools to manage a continuous monitoring process to enhance safety and inclusion in school
- School visitation, interactive one day events exploration into the school safety and inclusion situation carried on by schools staff and students
- Trainings in schools to inform students and staff about scientific findings and the positive and negative impacts of interventions in case of bullying
- Administration of School Safety Survey to students and staff of secondary school
- National and International Feedback Committee involvement will debate of the need of school on safety and inclusion
Partners
- Coordinator: GALE – Stichting The Global Alliance for LGBT education (Netherlands)
- Fondazione Hallgarten-Franchetti Centro Studi Villa Montesca (Italy)
- CESIE (Italy)
- Merseyside Expanding Horizons Limited (United Kingdom)
- Asociación Civica de Comunicación y Educación Sophia (Spain)
- The Smile of the Child (Greece)
- European Antibullying Network