Bullying

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-age children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated or has the potential to be repeated over time. Bullying includes several types, such as verbal bullying, social bullying, and physical bullying. 
It includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. 
Bullying can occur during or after school hours. While most reported bullying happens in the school building, a significant percentage also occurs in places like on the playground or the bus. 
It can also happen traveling to or from schools, in the youth’s neighborhood, or on the Internet.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The overall goal of SAFE project is to safeguard the rights and facilitate the empowerment of children and teens aged 6-17 against bullying and other types of violence, with particular attention to children and teenagers from communities at risk of social exclusion. The project intends to achieve this by producing, testing, and validating a psycho-educational sport program that tackles bullying. Thus, SAFE project aligns with and supports the implementation of the EU guidelines on stopping bullying through education and sport. In addition, it aims to promote social inclusion, equality, and nondiscrimination in and beyond school and sport. The anti-bullying psycho-education sport programme aims to promote early intervention in children and teenagers by developing key cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills that are tailored to their specific needs. To achieve this, this comprehensive program will: deconstruct irrational beliefs, stereotypes, and prejudices; prepare for the concepts of self protection and borderline situations; teach how to use non-verbal language; develop physical self-protection skills; promote coping strategies when faced with limiting situations (telling, not accepting, denouncing, not allowing). 

TARGET GROUPS

The proposed anti-bullying psycho-education sport programme involves working with school clusters, associations and municipalities, involving the whole educational community in the various stages of project development, from needs mapping to programme implementation, testing and validation, including dissemination and further exploitation of the programme and its innovative educational resources.
The target groups of SAFE project are: 

- children from 6 to 11 years of age (middle childhood), children from 12 to 14 years of age (young teens) and teenagers from 15 to 17 years of age - the main target group of the project; 

- professionals whose activity is oriented to develop students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, such as teachers, trainers, facilitators, coaches, guiders - a secondary target group of the project; - family members of the above-mentioned children and teenagers – a secondary target group of the project.

Activities

Field research and needs analysis - This activity is to conduct field research among youth and children in Bulgaria and Portugal, ensuring variety of sociodemographic contexts, to understand bullying stories taking place across different contexts. The field research will gather a more in-depth, real and detailed information of the concrete target groups allowing to fill the gaps of the existing data.

Design of the programme -The activity is to design the SAFE psycho-education sport programme to tackle bullying. This program shall be a program of integration and motivation, in which the goal is for all children to be happy, active, and rational, but above all to be deterrents to violence, and that cooperation between each child to become a rule and a value in each school.

Production of teaching and learning aids - This activity is to design and produce teaching and learning aids to support the implementation of SAFE programme, i.e., all tools and resources intended to enhance learning, supplement instructions, reinforce concepts and skills and stimulate the interest of the learners.

Pilot implementation and validation -This activity is to pilot, to experiment the produced programme and materials in a realistic setting. The pilot is aimed to check about the match between the programme and its objectives, proving the viability of the programme, identifying any deficiencies or weaknesses to be corrected. The program will be tested by teachers/trainers and facilitators and 4 groups of learners. The pilot activity will be organised in training sessions held by each partner with the support of associated partners whenever necessary.

Sharing and multiplier events - This activity includes all the physical multiplier events and communication actions aimed at sharing and disseminating SAFE project results and experience, as well as raising awareness about the bullying problem. SAFE Info Day Portugal and SAFE Info Day Bulgaria will be events for sharing project outcomes, and sharing testimonies about the pilot experience by children, teens and teachers/trainers/facilitators. In parallel, an online and TV anti-bullying campaign will be launched in Portugal and Bulgaria to address the effects of bullying in schools.

partners

ACADEMIA WE FIGHT
Academia We Fight is a self-defense school, with a curricular basis from Kravmaga but adapted to our society, focusing on preventing dealing with bullying through conflict communication, building self-belief, physical skills and resilient mindset. Our focus is, at an early stage, to limit the excessive instruction of techniques, choosing rather to transmit concepts and principles of training that make those who seek us to be able, in a faster way, to assimilate, understand, and above all to believe that what is passed on to them has a reasoned and objective logic. Likewise, in children's classes we aim to instill values of self-confidence, discipline and respect for others. This combination between physical and mental training makes the evolution of the child, as human being, much more sustainable. Our major goal is health promotion. We believe that in a healthy body lives a healthy mind and that physical well-being is essential for building good self-esteem.
www.academia-espinho.com 

Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Manuel Gomes de Almeida
The Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Manuel Gomes de Almeida is a school cluster located in Espinho, district of Aveiro. This school cluster currently gathers a total of five organic units: EB Domingos Capela, EB de Paramos, Centro Escolar de Silvalde, EB Espinho2, ES Dr. Manuel Gomes de Almeida. It offers a wide range of programs and activities to help students develop their skills and knowledge, including language and computer classes, and extracurricular activities like sports, music, and arts. It also has a committed staff who is dedicated to providing a safe, supportive, and engaging learning environment. The schools’ facilities are modern and well equipped with classrooms, laboratories, libraries, and sports facilities. One of AEMGA’s mottos is "opening the school to the world" through partnerships with several institutions and companies, to provide the students with a wide range of education and the promotion of success, as well as the implementation of projects and social solidarity.
www.aemga.pt

Escola Secundária Georgi S Rakovski
"Georgi Rakovski" Secondary School is a small, modern school located in Veliko Tarnovo, opened 50 years ago. Over the years, it has created an excellent environment for learning, creative development, digital competence, physical activity, and civic education in the education of students. Today, as equal members of the European Union, we are trying to give a new look to education and develop the most significant skills of the 21st century - literacy, critical thinking, teamwork, communication skills, civic engagement, digital competence, and personal development. Our educational offer has varied over the years, and we have covered all levels of education from primary to secondary.
http://sourakovski.weebly.com/

Escola Secundária Privada "Edmund Burke
“Edmund Burke” is a private secondary school that has been providing quality education since 2002. The school combines educational traditions with a modern approach to ensure that teenagers are happy and enjoy learning. Our vision is to nurture students into great and motivated citizens, empowering them to succeed in their personal and global lives. We believe in an individual approach to education, allowing each student to develop their potential and creativity optimally. Our school places great emphasis on foreign language education, with intensive study of English and Spanish. We are also committed to promoting health and well-being within our school community. Our approach involves collaboration among students, staff, and the community to address health-related issues. Additionally, our school boasts a modern training facility, a well-stocked library, and excellent conditions for all-round development and sports.
https://www.edburk.eu/

results

Field research and needs analysis report 
SAFE psycho-education sport programme
Teaching and learning aids
Pilot activity report
Anti-bullying animated video spot 
SAFE leaflet  

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