"""Listen and Respect"" is a project whose key belief is the conviction that future starts today and that our pupils will soon have to face the relevant matters of everyday life. Thank to this project pupils will realize that they can actively participate in the life of school and local community and that their initiative really matters. The coordinating Czech school is the Regional Consulting Centre for School Parliaments that can help other schools to establish a school parliament. By establishing school parliaments and taking active part in them pupils will develop democratic attitude and the skill of decision-making in the school environment. One of the most expected impact of the project is improvement of already existing parliaments in project partner schools. Questionnaires will be conducted concerning school parliaments at the beginning and at the end of the project to analyze the results, draw conclusions and apply them into schools' schedules for the next year. Supporting materials will be created to facilitate efficient parliament work and will become a part of the school files. All the material will be available on the schools´ websites for teachers and pupils to use. Establishment or improvement of functioning of schools´ parliaments and their active role in the school life will result in a long-term impact upon the schools´ climate and upon the process of implementing and strengthening of democratic principles. The oportunity to involve a partner with children with special needs is going to be a great chalenge for the School Exchange Partnership. All partners truly believe that, eventhough, in the present time, children with special needs attend schools on regular basis, participating in a project with such a school will raise awareness of children with disabilities and supports the belief that every child's right should be heard. Also, thanks to organizing and participating in charity events the pupils will develop empathy and willingness to help the ones in need. We also emphasize the link between today's education and future professional success. The workshops organized within this project will improve the children’s financial access and financial literacy and give them an opportunity to use the newly gained knowledge in practice when organizing various events such as school trip, a team building trip and others.The unique possibility of collaborating with the parliaments of partner foreign schools will give the pupils a sense of unity and importance. Our partnership consists of four elementary and one secondary schools from different counries such as the Czech Republic, Greece, Romania, Slovakia and Italy. Also, an important part of our project is not only to explore other countries and their distinctive characteristisc, but to introduce children with local issues within their own countries. Most of all, we wish all the activities planned during this project would be not only educational but also enjoyable with many positive benefits. In conclusion, we believe that our project provides our children with a unique and memorable opportunity to make lifelong friendships while visiting other countries, communicating in English and working with children of the similar age with different abilities in different parts of Europe. Especially, we wish to develop or instill beliefs and values that we are able to make a change and positively contribute to global issues. Moreover,by participating in an international project we aim to show the pupils that education is not limited only to the textbooks and testing but can be a joyous experience shared with the pupils of other nationalities; that working together on the common goal enhances motivation and creativity, which are the key features in effective learning. As a further matter, we would like our pupils to exchange emails and maintain contact online to support long-term learning about other cultures and improving their language skills. They will share with their parents and friends the experience of travelling around Europe, which will expand their horizons and help to reject stereotypes. Project results (e.g. books, films, digital brochures, handmade books, presentations) will be used as teaching/learning resources by the teaching staff. We will supply Erasmus+ Corner with the best products of the project for everyone to remember and learn about this unique cooperation of children from the European countries and to motivate students and teachers to take part in similar projects in the future."

ContextDue to the increasing number of teenagers who use technology and social media, bullying has been spreading more and more online. It is of a new kind, more complex and difficult to identify, as it is often hidden by the bullies who successfully pretend to be other persons than they really are. Researchers point out that the consequences of this phenomenon are seriously increasing.Therefore, this project focuses on both students and parents. On the one hand we want our students to be responsible users of the internet and social media and to decrease the cases of cyberbullying. On the other hand we want to help parents so that they can monitor and supervise their children while being online and identify the cyberbullying signs in their behaviour.Objectives:- to decrease the incidence of cyberbullying by at least 50% in 2 years- to raise the awareness of at least 80% of the target group related to all forms of bullying at the end of the 2 project years- to improve parents’ capacity to monitor their children’s online activity by producing one guide for them and running 4 workshops (C2-C4)- to create an online platform for the reporting of cyberbullying incidents which will be used by all the schools starting with the academic year 2021-2022 (C5)- to increase students’ intercultural awareness and communication skills- to develop students’ creativity and critical thinking - to develop the European dimension of our schools through international cooperation ParticipantsThe target group – 270 students aged 12-14 in each school. Participants in exchanges – 120 students (24 students from each country) – attend regular classes, topic-related workshops and lectures, cultural activitiesParents of TG students – will take part in workshops addressed to them during the exchanges and also after the exchanges, as each school will implement similar workshops with its TG parentsActivitiesC1 – Cyber-bullying across European schools - Case studies, statistics, current situation in each school/countryC2 – How do I spend my time online? – Guidelines for mobile and Internet use - exchange C3 – How do I know when I am being bullied? – Identification of cyberbullying forms and incidentsC4 – What are the consequences of cyberbullying for the bully and the victim? - Ethical and legal standards for online activities, psychological consequences C5 – What do I do if somebody bullies me? - Reporting cyberbullying and online hate incidents ResultsAs a result of our cooperation, we will produce the following outputs, which will be applied in our schools and shared freely on our dissemination platforms (eTwinning, EPRP, the project website):a. Initial and final analysis of cyberbullying in our schools (EE)b. Guide for online safety (addressed to students) (RO)c. Brochure entitled Causes and Effects of cyberbullying (IT)d. Guide for parental control of children’s online activity (GR)e. Online platform for reporting bullying incidents (addressed to students and parents) (TR)f. Sets of activities about cyberbullying for use with students (all partners)ImpactThe project is meant to contribute to the enhancement of the European dimension of our schools. Through the project the openness and flexibility of our teachers and students will be achieved. Moreover, the school presence in the local community will be stronger, as the school will become more appealing to future students. The reduction of cyberbullying incidences in our schools and the fact that our students will be able to identify bullying cases and act in such circumstances will be a main advantage, too. We will also enable parents to become more active in their children’s life, to monitor, guide and support them. Thus, we will create a fruitful collaboration among school, parents and students. In addition, our school will become a local multiplier, as our results will be shared with other schools in our areas, thus, our impact will be transferred and widespread in all local schools and communities. Finally, we will gain a valuable project management capacity which will help us develop qualitative Erasmus+ initiatives in the future.