Ready, Steady, Change

Stamp it out Project is a collaboration coordinated by England to combat bullying and early school leaving consisting of 6 countries, Spain, Turkey, Hungary, Greece, Portugal. In order to maximize the ultimate impact of the main project activities, we started our partnership with organizations that have a successful background and experience in the project theme. 

Our partnership is based on collaborative work in an international environment to build bridges between different formal and informal education and training sectors and to promote regional development and cross-sectoral cooperation to share information. In order to present our project successfully, we have ensured that the complementary participating organizations with the necessary profile, experience and expertise contained in a suitable mix. Cooperating with the relevant staff whose organizational profile, skills and competence are linked to the project goals and objectives will increase the impact of the concrete results of our project. In this project, the term “peer bullying” was observed according to the variety of definitions and approaches in European countries. 

“Bullying” is used today as a synonym for violence and aggression and spreads as an international concept of all cultures in the world. Bullying is an aggressive form of behavior with similar negative consequences in all societies. Bullying is a common problem that can affect all people anywhere in the world in any setting,  regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, religious belief, or socioeconomic status. The prevalence of bullying, which concerns all countries of the world, threatens the physical and psycho-social health of children and young people. It is accepted that the effects of bullying, which is a serious trauma for students, are not limited to the school period, but are lifelong and negatively affect the health of the community. 

The frequency and extent of violence is very effective on students’ acceptance, insensitivity and non-response. Bullying should not be tolerated and an appropriate and prompt response should always be given. 

With increasing devastating effects of bullying, it is now compulsory that schools take the problem more seriously and discover ways to reduce it. The main purpose of our project is to look for new methods to raise awareness of the problem and eliminate it. With our project, we aim to change our experiences and good practices, to conduct peer learning events and workshops, to participate in LTT activities and to seek ways to ease aggression in schools. 

Our aims: 

• Improving information communication for students with special educational needs; 
• Raising children’s and young people’s awareness of the importance of Special Education;
• Including society in the problem of bullying in general and raising awareness; 
• Recognizing the existence of a plural society, where each individual is singular and with his own characteristics; 
• Encouraging changes in bullying attitudes;
• Guiding students to deal with the problem;
• Acting directly with groups as soon as possible to break the bullying dynamics; 
• Recognizing students’ attitudes towards dealing with the problem and appreciating; 
• Involving families in solving the problem; 
• Understanding damage that the victim suffers and the damages it may cause. 

Two types of LTT activities are included in our program: there are 2 short-term mutual staff training and 4 short-term student mobility. In our project, project-based cooperation, peer learning, workshops, virtual laboratories, virtual cooperation areas, information, guidance, teaching and consultancy activities are used to achieve the goals. Surveys, interviews, observations and evaluations will help us to measure performance. Our general project methodology consists of 3 stages: a controlled start with pre-project activities, the design of the project and organizational preparation; accurate monitoring / control with documentation and reports; A controlled ending with self-assessment and overall assessment. 

Dissemination will be intensive in these last two stages. We will spread the concrete and abstract results of our project to large audiences using news in school magazines and press releases in local newspapers, school meetings and team sessions, using audiovisual materials developed during the project and using online tools, project websites, social media networks and corporate websites. will provide. 

The ultimate goal of dissemination will be to increase the impact of project activities directly in the organizations participating in the project. It is expected that ~3000 students plus families/teachers will be positively affected (direct/indirect) by this project. In order to ensure the sustainability and dissemination of the project results, we will increase the capacity of our organisations by motivating staff for new training activities at a local/regional/national & international level