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Overview
Project start date: 01.11.2023
Project end date: 31.10.2025
“Cyber harassment” and “Cyber bullying” are defined as harassment and bullying that occur in digital environment via digital devices. These may include creation and spreading of offensive, threatening and mocking visuals, photos and text messages that undermine the dignity or demean the child: shooting videos/photos of a child with mobile phone and the distribution of photos or videos without the child’s consent, identity/profiles theft, insults, spreading rumors on social networks, etc. The lockdown affecting most European countries in spring 2020 saw the sudden shift of most children's activities into the digital world. Since then, children's schooling, leisure time, social contacts, home life have mostly been conducted at home via digital media. Embracing new tools and services and spending several hours per day online changed dramatically daily schedules. Although the online world offers opportunities and new possibilities, it also opens the door to online risks.
Project end date: 31.10.2025
“Cyber harassment” and “Cyber bullying” are defined as harassment and bullying that occur in digital environment via digital devices. These may include creation and spreading of offensive, threatening and mocking visuals, photos and text messages that undermine the dignity or demean the child: shooting videos/photos of a child with mobile phone and the distribution of photos or videos without the child’s consent, identity/profiles theft, insults, spreading rumors on social networks, etc. The lockdown affecting most European countries in spring 2020 saw the sudden shift of most children's activities into the digital world. Since then, children's schooling, leisure time, social contacts, home life have mostly been conducted at home via digital media. Embracing new tools and services and spending several hours per day online changed dramatically daily schedules. Although the online world offers opportunities and new possibilities, it also opens the door to online risks.
Project Objectives
- To create conditions for digital empowerment of secondary school students by developing and disseminating interactive digital and social media literacy training tools for students, their parents and teachers.
- To enhance digital empathy in students by triggering their self-reflection and raising awareness among them of the impact of aggressive and abusive behaviour in online environment.
- To encourage active behaviour and response to cyberbullying by equipping students, their parents, and teachers with the know-how, tools and methods for preventing cyberbullying, as well as for recognizing signs of cyberbullying and for offering support.
Expected results
The project objectives are directly linked to the 3 main results that CyberBuddy project will aim to produce, as follows:
- CyberBuddy digital challenges
- The CyberBuddy diaries platform
- “How to raise a cyberbuddy” Guidelines for teachers, parents and educators
Project consortium
The consortium consists of 6 partners from 5 EU countries as follows: National Vocational Secondary School of Computer Technologies and Systems (Bulgaria) – Coordinator; Acta Foundation (Bulgaria); The Rural Hub (Ireland); Associazione INNOVAMENTIS (Italy), Agrupamento de Escolas Alberto Sampaio (Portugal) and SYNDESMOS MELON GYNAIKEION SOMATEION IRAKLEIOY KAI NOMOY IRAKLEIOY (Greece).
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