"Young people are the ones who are most subjected to new media and at the same time the ones that often lack abilities to independently and critically evaluate what they come across in the flow of media and information.Rendering that young people are the most susceptible to the dangers posed by the media and that we live in an era of media saturation, the inclusion of media and information literacy (MIL) education in school programs to generate knowledge on the role and functions of media and other information services, and to enable youth to process and evaluate the information they receive is a must. Due to the gap in media literacy development among the different States, the diversity of approach, initiatives and policies, the coordinator(Poland) decided to implement the current project with 4 other actors(Italy,Turkey,Latvia,Portugal) who have good practices and are dedicated to solving the problem.Internet and social media addiction, cyberbullying, fake news problems, adaptation to emerging digital culture, access to reliable information, online personal privacy violations, data security and various forms of digital fraud are among the fields of our project interest.Totally 50 teachers, who worked voluntarily in their schools for the solution of the problem, have a high level of commitment to the project and 125 students aged 13-15 and from all walks of life will join to 5 LTTs.Each LTT will enable us to accomplish the project objectives.The 1st LTTAs will benefit students to take full advantage of the opportunities of social media in a safe and ethical way; learn to choose what platform to post something on and the potential consequences of posting; feel part of the society by sharing personal thoughts on media and that feeling of belonging, which is a key for their social inclusion.The 2nd LTTAs will provide participants with tools to spot ‘fake news’ online, understand how they spread, and obtain access to verified information.This LTTAs will contribute to participants ability to be more discerning consumers of information found online, by thinking about the broad spectrum of disinformation and misinformation.As for the 3rd LTT, it aims to highlight each unique media form has a different way of presenting information.Students will understand how media change depending on how the media presenting; enhance their newspotting skills.Thanks to the 4th LTT, it is purposed to analyze the cases of the European schools regarding cyberbullying issues and to make all schools a cyber safe place and carry ""the cyber safe place"" concept to families as well.As for the last LTT, it will enable students to be judicious and active in content creation; produce info or reproduce disinformation instead of only receiving info passively; hold a sense of responsibility in the production, consumption and sharing of media.Our project also targets at strengthening the profiles of the teaching professions.In all LTTs there will be 5 workshops for teachers about innovative and contemporary teaching methods(Project based learning,Blended learning,ICT, Gamification, CLIL).These workshops will provide teachers with the opportunity of sharing good practices; strengthening intercultural dialogue and the bond between teachers from different European schools.These objectives will be achieved through Issue-inquiry Approach, Problem-based Learning,Case Study,Cooperative Learning,Textual and Contextual Analyses,ICT,CLIL.Under the favor of our LTTAs and methodologies, we target at accomplishing the following outcomes:Increased level of media and information literacy5 workshops about innovative teaching methods7 workshops in LTTs about MIL1 digital book as a final and common product5 digital e-bookletsPosters about positive digital footprint and digital citizenship weekVideos about digital citizenshipA podcast about digital rightsA social media literacy strategy plan (each school will adopt it for its own context)A storyboard about dis/mis/mal-informationLesson plans on Internet and Social Media AddictionBookmarks involving messages about MILOne-shot filmsMIL glossaryMovie postersDigital citizenship and MIL weeksThanks to local activities; eTwinning project; displaying project outputs in diverse media outlets; seminars; eTwinning learning events; our digital book; action plan on MIL;social media literacy strategy plan;Digital citizenship and MIL Weeks to be held every year in partners' schools, we will reach to larger audience and contribute to their being effective and long- lasting media literate European citizens.It is useful to think of MIL as a continuum rather than an outcome; we all will be more media and information literate.Briefly, in the long term, in/direct participants of the Project will have the capacity for access to, production and participation in the new media environment, act as active and critical citizens, take advantage of the opportunities in progress and innovation in the information society."

"School bullying is defined as"" Unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance"".The values of freedom, tolerance, respect for diversity and non-discrimination are cornerstone values of European societies, but bullying at schools damages these values.Bullying issue is a key factor in early school leaving, and has serious and long-term effects. It affects mental health and the academic performance of children.The coordinating school(Slovenia) felt the necessity of implementing this project based on the needs analysis with the aim of increasing academic achievement, raising the rate of university placement, dropping out of school and achieving social inclusion, which is in accordance with EU 2020 goals and the achievement of schools' own strategic goals, so the coordinator collaborate with other 5 schools(Romania,Italy,Greece,Turkey,Germany),which have attach importance to bullying issues and have good practices about it.The target audience of the project is students, teachers, parents, school administrations, local people, neighboring schools, local authorities.In total 72 teachers who constantly strive for their own professional development and 144 students aged between 14-16 will participate in 6LTTs.Thanks to 1st LTT in Slovenia, it is aimed to enhance the awareness of bullying among the participants and to learn the indicators of bullying via hands on activities such designing t-Shirts, brochures, mottos, etc. It is targeted to gain deeper understanding about the indicators of bullying by visiting an NGO. The 2nd LTT in Greece, cyberbullying cases will be reduced thanks to improved emphatic thoughts and consciousness of the issue.When it comes to the 3rd LTT in Romania, it will improve the sense of empathy, break the barriers and stereotypes, improve the dialogue and team spirit thanks to drama. The 4th LTT in Italy will serve the purposes of combating stress, improving self-confidence, widening students' social circle, improving students' social interactions. Thanks to the 5th LTT, it will be targeted to developing the emphatic thinking. As for the last LTT in Germany, The relation between the bullies and victims will be strengthened and social inclusion will be increased thanks to social and educational activities.These objectives will be achieved through cooperative learning, outdoor/indoor learning-teaching, scaffolding, problem solving,CLIL, ICT, all of which are based on interactive teaching and student-centered methodologies. Local activities both before and after each LTT will enable us to realize LTTAs and their objectives as planned and to integrate the gainings into the school's curriculum and finally to empower the partner schools with looking from whole school approach.By dint of LTTAs and mentioned techniques and methodologies, we aim at obtaining the following in/tangible results:Reduced bullying in partner schools at least by 30% and 40% for the 1st and 2nd years of the project respectivelyTeachers and parents will learn their roles and responsibilities to deal with bullying thanks to seminarsShort films by pupils and familiesA rap song composed by pupils on befriendingPosters created by pupilsSeminars about preventing bullying for pupils, teachers and parentsAn informational brochure to be distributed to other schools to make them aware of the projectA digital book to enlighten the other European countries experiencing the same problemT-shirt designs for disseminationDigital citizenship and Peer bullying weeks to be held in partner schools every year to ensure the sustainabilitySilent Drama to raise awareness of bullyingIn long term, the peer bullying at partner schools will decrease due to the activities of the project full of friendship messages. That will create a better educational environment for all the students in the partner schools that will help preventing the early school leaving in the future. Since the common language of the project is in English, both students’ and teachers’ communicative competences will increase. Likewise, as students and teachers will use ICT in some project outputs, their digital skills will improve and this will help them use their improved digital skills in their lives, professions and new EU projects. The concrete results will be available on TwinSpace, Youtube Channel, project's website and school' websites at the disposal of everyone interested in bullying. Thanks to eTwinning project and learning events and online meeting on eTwinning, the project gainings will reach to larger audience and long-lasting. We will go on organizing an “ anti-bullying” week every year at each partner school even after the Project ends. This activity will turn into a tradition at partner schools which will promote peace and friendship for years.The e-book to be prepared as a final product will ensure the sustainability of our project and will be used as an inspiring guide by all the stakeholders."

The new communication paradigm, generated by media convergence, has no National borders.
For that reason, it is momentous to promote the creation of synergies among different countries and actors and interchange of practices to develop media literacy.Our project aims at promoting media literacy and critical thinking skills which raise awareness of media manipulation and providing the participants with the knowledge and power for efficient and safe use of media outlets.To solve the media literacy problems, the coordinator (Lithuania) decided to collaborate with 5 schools from Portugal,Croatia,Turkey,Spain,Italy, which attach importance to media literacy and conducting studies to tackle with the problem to enable pupils to become more conscious media consumers having the ability of critically thinking. All partner schools have some initiatives at local level but there are few cases where a local activity has been extended to all the nations or outside national borders. By dint of this project, media literacy promoting activities will have European stardom, which will increase their visibility and effectiveness.The target audience of the project is students, teachers, parents, local people, neighbouring schools, local authorities, media itself, policy makers. In total 72 teachers who constantly strive for their own professional development and 144 students aged between 14-17 will participate in 6LTTs.Each LTT will serve the purposes of attaining the project goals.Thanks to 1st LTT in Lithuania, participants will enhance critical thinking and media literacy to strengthen democracy and counter manipulation, propaganda and disinformation as cited in Erasmus+ program guide and will tell the difference between professional news-gathering and amateur rumour-mongering. The 2nd LTT in Portugal will enable participants to cope with the manipulations by ads and to be judicious consumers. The 3rd LTTA in Italy will enable the participants to access and interpret the right information thanks to their increasing experience in media literacy.That will facilitate the acceptance of cultural difference, diminish racist behavior and develop intercultural skills.The 4th LTT in Croatia will teach them to differentiate different media outlets.In virtue of 5th LTT in Spain, participants will develop skills in media production and subsequently develop their initiatives.Moreover, rather than just being external spectators and information recipients, they will become content makers and learn to reach info through different means. The 6th LTT in Turkey will enable students to become conscious of different forms of online hate speech and their reasons and effects.These objectives will be achieved through outdoor/indoor learning-teaching, scaffolding, problem solving, CLIL, ICT,Inquiry based and Cooperative Learning, Textual and Visual Analyses, Think-pair-share-technique all of which are based on interactive teaching and student-centered methodologies.By the virtues of LTTAs and mentioned techniques and methodologies, we aim at attaining the following concrete results-6 issues of e magazines about LTTAs-1 e-book covering all LTTs-Digital and ceramic version of project logo-An action plan about media literacy-A podcast named digital footprint to enable students to be safe and conscious on the internet-A podcast about offering tips to protect users from cyber bullying and hate speech-Brochures about fake news-News reports and newspaper about LTTs-Slogans, mottos and bookmarks about media literacy-Seminars about raising media literacy for pupils, teachers and parents-Participants will act independently and replicate what they learnt further in their settings; thus they will be multipliers who can contribute to raising media literacy in their their school, region, country, through EuropeIn the long run, participants’ skills for accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media will increase and in virtue of our project, the participants will raise their literacy, life and learning skills which are caterpillars of 21st century education. Since students and teachers will use ICT in some project outputs, their digital skills will improve. In the long run, we will go on organizing a “media literacy” week every year.The concrete results will be available on TwinSpace, YouTube Channel, project's websites, social media platforms for everyone interested in media literacy.The e-book will provide the sustainability of our project as well as being a resource from which all our stakeholders will benefit.Moreover, our project with its results will present implications to curriculum designer to integrate media literacy into their national curriculum.Each partner school will prepare an action plan in which we will organize activities, seminars, meetings, etc.to train students on media literacy.Thus, we will ensure that action plan’s being our organizational culture, which is the hardest evidence of our project’s benefits being long lasting

In the 21st century , in a society of globalization , with a very sophisticated technology, in which ideologies promote equality and human rights , bullying affects millions of people, especially children and teenagers all over the world .This unwanted, aggressive behavior seems to be repeated over time and both children and teenagers who are bullied and those who bully their peers may have very serious and lasting behavior problems , especially at a difficult age when the self identity and the acceptance in a social group are the most important for the future adult. That’s why a 14-16 years old –target group has been chosen because it is the passage to high school , to different environment, to new colleagues, and everything seems to be difficult and frightening . These are the proper conditions and the perfect age for bullying.In this respect, two examples can be given : two Romanian high school girls committed suicide : one of them, a 15 year old girl died, the other was saved in the last moment . This is the main reason why Romania decided to be the coordinator of this project.The situation is worse in partner countries.The methodology would be inclusive and collaborative. Creating debates and sharing valuable experiences by the participant teachers.The methodology will try to wake up the sense of responsibility on the teachers,parents and students( problems\solutions).Expected results:The information, training and awareness will contribute to reduce negative behaviors.Participant schools will integrate the results and conclusions of the teacher training course by: long term strategy on the different schools in collaboration with psychologist, police, social workers and authorities. The objectives of the project related to chosen priorities :.1)To reduce peer bullying and cyber bullying at the schools by teacher trainings, students’ and parents' activities and students exchanges2) To share European good practices and to discover other European countries and the educational systems of partners’ schools.3) to highlight the importance of children rights, the dangers and risks of discrimination and bullying through all the project activities to be carried out at schools mentioned on the timetable- We want to offer an equal/friendly educational environment open to all kinds of students including the ones socially marginalised and the ones with fewer opportunities 4) To strengthen intercultural dialogue between different groups, migrants and refugees, poor families, and to promote peace, equality, tolerance and mutual understanding through the project activities based on music and art, international languages of communication5) To improve ICT skills of students' and teachers' digital through both the seminars and activities and LTTs and project activities at school We want our teachers to learn new languages, and teaching methods especially innovative ICT-based ones to enhance their professions6)To increase the level in foreign languages7)To enrich intercultural awareness and develop an international dimension to 6 partner schools- 8)To improve the relationship parents- school – local \regional community in education 9) to create a local\national long term strategy , by involving all schools and community , economic partners, NGOs, psychologists, counselors, legal representatives 10) involve students in anti bullying strategy and to act against it when they witness it. Schools from six countries will take part in this project : 4 students and 2 teachers for each mobility, after a selection organized by schools partners;proofs of activities will be uploaded on the ETwining platform, articles will be published in local press in order to promote the school and to increase the number of students and their motivation , meetings will take place on Skype to analyze and feedback , the project will be included in Management policy of the schools - Optional courses, classes related to the topic , final products will be translated in English ,final products of the project will be distributed in other schools ( -example of good practices), festivities and presentations will take place to promote the project in local community.The impact of the project will be huge: students, teachers, parents,social workers, NGOs, psychologists.We aim to create a new mentality among children, to reduce violence, discrimination, to create a perfect environment.Our students involved in project will be ambassadors of nonviolence and antibullying among their collegues and in the other neighbour schools.The results:Reduced bullying in partner schools.Improved digital skills of the students and the teachers in the partner schools,an increase in the motivation to learn English;Higher adaptation of the teachers in European educational community after joining LTTsTeachers and parents will learn their roles and responsibilities to deal with it.