A consortium of six partners mainly from adult and higher education from Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain and UK was established. The over-all aim of the project was to establish training on violence prevention and de-escalation in pre- and primary school settings on a regular basis by developing the social and civic competences in children at an early age. In doing so the project focused on a new angle of violence prevention. The outcomes of the project are based on the assumption that through the development of strong social competences all children become “stronger”. The teachers follow a regular course of activities provided by the project in form of a collection of activities and use arising situations as learning source so that a long-lasting effect on the children is reached. The need for the project stems from the fact that usual violence prevention training starts much later in life – if at all – usually in secondary school. In addition it should also be the task of teachers/educators to develop social competences among children, as violence occurs where children come together. Peer attacks are seen as natural to a certain extent. Although there is a certain degree of natural aggressiveness among (small) children – they still have to learn how to handle it. In real life not only parents but also educators and teachers are often not sure how to deal with such behaviour, do not know what can be considered to be “normal” behaviour yet and what needs special consideration and how to detect bullying. In addition, the development of social competences is a process and cannot be learned in a short course. All planned project phases have been carried out according to plan and all three Intellectual Outputs have been developed, tested and finalized. The project phases included a pre-test, its evaluation, the development, the main-test, its evaluation and the finalizing of materials.In the Pre-Test from March – June 2015 testing took place in six preschools and 13 primary schools. In addition, a class of mentally disabled children were involved in Denmark. Altogether, 26 teachers and up to 400 children were involved in the Pre-test. The main test was carried out from October 2015 till May 2016 and 13 preschools with 28 teachers and 19 primary schools with 84 teachers were reached. Also each partner established a Regional Steering Group (RSG) to involve practitioners and experts right from the start. Meetings took place three times during the project. Five transnational project meetings have been carried out according to plan and the last partner meeting in Lodz, Poland, was combined with a conference “Strong children shape the future”. The conference was held at Społeczna Akademia Nauk in Łódź, Poland, on 27th June 2016, with more than 50 participants from educational background, mainly teachers and future teachers. After opening introduction of the project Stronger Children and an introduction of the situation of child bullying in the partner countries, the participants could choose from 4 different workshops, held by some of partners or other experts from Akademia. Further a range of Dissemination activities have been carried out, including a TV report “Jak se bránit šikaně” about project SCH in Sama Doma, ČT1, in the Czech public TV in October 2015. The project has also seen the production of a range of promotional videos – either for Facebook, dissemination of partners and/or the Website. The project established a channel on YouTube as a repository of videos. Currently seven videos are uploaded with total of 547 views. (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Jrv65zR7F5dpgAmv524Fw). A beneficial result was also achieved by the Czech partner. They reached an accreditation of the Collection of Activities by their Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth for the obligatory further education of teachers in preschools and primary schools. Please refer to www.strongerchildren.eu for the project outputs and visit us on Facebook www.facebook.com/strongerchildren

"In many European countries adult education centres cover broad levels of the population nationwide. Since the initiation of the UN World Decade ""Education for Sustainable Development"" adult education centres aim to enable learners to act sustainable. However, topics in the field of sustainable development are often only treated sporadically and separately or in discipline-specific courses. But the concept of education for sustainable development emphasises the importance of multidisciplinarity – therefore topics should be treated by a comprehensive approach to sensitise for sustainable acting.However, there is a lack of suitable materials for adults – materials which illustrate the complexity of social, economic and ecological issues adequately and which are related to the everyday life. The objective of the project is to develop teaching and learning materials which support the distribution of interdisciplinary knowledge as well as creative competence in the field of sustainable development. The main focus is on adult learners in language courses. By integrating relevant topics and questions in language teaching learners are inspired to think about the issue and their own actions. The project aims to achieve a long-term change in behaviour of the learners. Because of the complexity of the different topics the development and testing of the materials is limited to language courses. In order to develop the broadest possible effect the materials will be free of charge and freely accessible to all teachers on the internet after the project.For the implementation of the project idea, it is planned to establish a consortium of adult education centres from six EU countries."