Fundatia EuroEd (www.euroed.ro) aduce in atentia celor interesati 2 dintre proiectele pe care le desfasoara: Proiectul I am not scared (511645-LLP-1-2010-1-IT-KA1-KA1SCR ) - prevenirea violentei scolare Proiectul Stay@School (2011-1-IT1-LEO05-01961) - prevenirea abandonului scolar Proiectele sunt finanţate cu sprijinul Comisiei Europene. Această publicaţie (comunicare) reflectă numai punctul de vedere al autorului şi Comisia nu este responsabilă pentru eventuala utilizare a informaţiilor pe care le conţine.

1. Wellbeing@school - the result of projects I am not scared and
Stay@School
Anca Colibaba & Andreea Cleminte – Fundatia EuroEd, RO
These projects have been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission
cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

2. STRATEGIES TO OPTIMIZE THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS
“Stay@School”
(Project Number: 2011-1-IT1-LEO05-01961, CUP: G32F11000680006 )
prevent early school leaving
http://projects.pixel-online.org/stayatschool/info/
“I Am Not Scared”
(KA1 Policy Cooperation and Innovation - 511645-LLP-1-2010-1-IT-KA1-KA1SCR)
prevent and combat the school bullying
http://iamnotscared.pixel-online.org/info/index.php

3. CONTEXT & OBJECTIVE
Context
The bullying phenomenon is a main challenge, that all European educational systems
have to deal with.
Despite many initiatives:
•The main information and experiences related to the understanding of bullying have
been developed through a mainly Top-Bottom approach.
•The standard of the researches and initiatives is not homogeneous at European
level
•National approaches are still prevalent and a European shared perspective is still
lacking
Objective
The project intends to identify the best European strategies to prevent and
combat the bullying phenomenon and involve Secondary school and Vocational
Education teachers, Directors Pupils, Parents and key policy makers in the
field of education in a common reflection based on a Bottom-Up approach for a
transnational sharing of the dynamics that can cause the emerging and consolidating
of the bullying phenomenon and of the most effective strategies and behaviours to
tackle it available at European Level

4. Target groups
• 11 Romanian schools, 22 teachers ,11 school principals, 55 parents, over 100 students
• “Octav Bancila“ Art High School, Iasi • “Vasile Pavelcu“ School, Iasi
• Economic High School, Iasi • “Vasile Alecsandri“ High School, Iasi
• “Grigore Moisil” Computer Science High School, Iasi • “Virgil Madgearu“ High School, Iasi
• EuroEd Primary School, Iasi • “Al. Vlahuta“ High School, Sendriceni,
• Nicolina School, Iasi Botosani
• “Constantin Păunescu” Special School, Iasi • Arts and Trades School, Husi, Vaslui
• 15 experts (psychological counsellors, psychologists, school counsellors), from 3 counties from
Romania
• 8 Policy Makers (with 14 representatives)
• Iasi County School Inspectorate • Iasi County Centre for Resources and Educational Assistance
• Iasi Teacher Training Department • Vrancea County Centre for Resources and Educational Assistance
• The prefecture of Iasi County • Iasi Department of Analysis and Crime Prevention
• lasi City Hall • The Direction for Social Services and Child Protection

5. ACTIVITIES
A) Collection of Information
•The aim of the Work Package is to is to achieve a better understanding of the
bullying phenomenon carrying out an empiric based research at transnational level,
aiming at identifying the state of art in the comprehension and strategic tackling of
bullying and violence and intolerance at school
B) Case Studies
•The aim of the Work package is to promote a Bottom Up approach to the
understanding of the bullying phenomenon through the carrying out of Case studies
taking the form of small research projects aiming at analyzing bullying episodes from
all the possible point of view of the different actors involved.
C) Transnational Discussion
•The aim of the Work package is to involve the teachers participating into the project
(meaning those interviewed for the completion of the Case studies) in a transnational
discussion, aimed at enhancing a peer to peer based knowledge exchange
experience, on the them of bullying prevention and tackling.
D) European Strategy to Combat Bullying
•The aim of the Work package is to use the information and opinions collected during
the project to create the European Strategy for Combating Bullying that will be
published as the main comprehensive and tangible output of the project.

6. Resources on preventing school
violence
Project website
http://iamnotscared.pixel-online.org
hosts
•450 Review of publications addressing the bullying phenomenon available in the 9 countries involved
•90 Good practices experiences (projects, activities) in the field of school bullying available in partner
countries and English languages​​
•9 National reports, concerning the situation of school bullying in the countries involved
•100 Case studies aiming at analyzing bullying episodes from all the possible point of view of the different
actors (Students, Teachers, schools' directors, parents of the students, and key policy makers)
•9 National Reports presenting the results of the activities described above and defining each country state
of art
To be uploaded:
•a Transnational Report presenting in a comparative logic, similarities and main differences concerning
the prevention of school bullying

7. Case studies aiming at analyzing bullying
episodes
12 Case studies have been collected in Romania, translated into English and
uploaded on the project website. The cases were developed by the teachers involved
organizing discussions/debates on real bullying situation with victims, bully students,
other students, other teachers, school directors, parents of the pupils involved,
supporting experts and policy makers
• BULLYING - A lesson just shouldn’t be learned
• Violence – discovered by students, forgotten by teachers
•First days of school - violence between students
• Analysis of school bullying
•
• The social background - source of bullying
• Case of Dysfunctional Behaviour in Primary School
• The use of drugs among students
• The bully bullied
• The school responsible for the safety of the students
• Let’s say NO to Violence!
• Empowering students to prevent violent behaviour
• Online Bullying

8. Causes of school violence
- adolescents are exposed to a series of violent events
- financial misunderstanding which later degenerated into violent conflict
- social differences - financial problems within the family
- come from homes that use physical punishment to discipline
- social background - urban versus rural
- repulsive behaviour of some students
- group influence
- inner conflicts and frustrations / intimidations between students
- poor education and social environment
- precocious physical growth helping to dominate other students
- teachers tolerates signs of violence/ minor incidents which later can lead to unfortunate situations
- lack of school secure and safe environment for students
- lack of strict rules
- lack of involvement of the students in social activities

9. Development of a school-wide bullying policy
to:
- Raise awareness of teachers and students
- Create a framework for responding to bullying
- Develop classroom rules against bullying
- Develop cooperative learning projects that encourage
teamwork and reduce social isolation
- Create activities or assignments that teach problem-
solving or conflict-resolution skills
- Participate in role-playing or other activities to help
students understand the effects and consequences of
the violent behaviour

10. Photos from the activities held in schools on the
development and discussions on the case studies

11. Transnational Discussion
The aim is to involve the teachers participating into the project (meaning those
interviewed for the completion of the Case studies) in a transnational discussion, aimed at
enhancing a peer to peer based knowledge exchange experience, on the them of
bullying prevention and tackling.
Results:
•3 transnational online discussions
•Involvement of 4 teachers, 3 MA students who want to become teachers and 3 staff
members
•66 comments done to the case studies from the other countries
•55 comments received to the Romanian case studies
The "I am not scared" Project Partners Blog
http://letsmakethechange12.blogspot.ro/2012/04/hi-everyone-as-requested-blog-for-us.html

12. CONTEXT & OBJECTIVE
Context
•A common challenge for the European school systems is the
prevention of early school leaving.
Objective
•The aim of the Stay@School project is to provide school teachers
with the necessary skills to prevent early school leaving using the
strategies and tools developed in the framework of the
School Inclusion project

13. Target groups
• The project aims to involve 140 secondary school teachers based in
Italy, Belgium, Romania and Spain.
• Involvement of 9 schools and 39 teachers from Romania
Types of Schools involved
• High Schools (Tehnoton College Iasi, Dimitrie Cantemir HighSchool
Iasi, Vasile Alecsandri HighSchool Iasi)
• Vocational High Schools (Economic HighSchool Iasi, Nicolina
HighSchool Iasi)
• School for children with special needs (Constantin Paunescu School
Iasi)
• Secondary School (Stefan cel Mare si Sfant, Drobovat, Iasi)
• Primary and lower secondary school (Nicolae Iorga School Iasi,
Dolhesti School Iasi)

14. School dropout – a phenomenon of the
Romanian and European education system
 One of the most important indicators of the
efficiency of an educational system is the school
dropout rate;
 This reveals the capacity of the school system to
integrate and keep the students within, to
ensure access and support in order for them to
finalize at least the compulsory school level;
 Due to the acceleration of the ageing process in
Europe and to a decline in the working
population, the European Union will increasingly
count on the young generation

15. School dropout rate

16. The project main
activities
A) Teachers Involvement
•Involvement of 140 secondary school teachers in the 4
European countries
•Result
Creation of a network of 140 teachers involved in the
prevention of early school leaving
From Romania 9 schools and 39 teachers have been
involved
Teachers Forum to comment and receive further
information on each of the modules. Teachers are invited to
use the Forum to contact the authors of the course. On the
Forum, the authors of each of the course modules answer
questions and provide clarification or further information
about the contents of the module they have developed.

17. The project main
activities
B) Improvement of the School Inclusion Portal
•Review, update and complete the School Inclusion Portal.
Results
Insertion of new data in the database of publications on the topic of
scholastic drop out – over 400 publications
•Further collection of direct experiences of teachers in preventing and
tackling the early school leaving – over 100 experiences
•Creation of a collection of reviews of training courses for teachers on the
topic of the prevention of early school leaving – over 60 examples of
training courses
•Translation of the training course on the prevention of early school leaving
available on the School Inclusion Portal
http://schoolinclusion.pixel-online.org/training_initiatives.php

18. The project main activities
C) Testing
•Delivery of the online training course on the prevention of early school leaving to 140
school teachers
The course is organized in 5 modules:
Module 1: Identification of Students at Risk
•aims to help teachers and other educational professionals to identify young students at
risk of dropping out of education.
Module 2: Communication
provides practical proposals on how to facilitate communication with students, parents
and colleagues in order to decrease the drop out rate at school.
Module 3: Teaching methods
•focuses on effective teaching strategies that foster the active involvement of all
students in educational pathways.
Module 4: Educational Evaluation and early school leaving prevention
•focuses on Educational evaluation because teachers need to be acquainted with the
modern meaning of evaluation, evaluation types and forms, models, techniques and
tools in order to become able to use them effectively in their school classes to achieve,
among other educational objectives, the prevention of early school leaving.
Module 5: External support and cooperation
•examines external resources and supports available for teachers and students to help
them in the prevention of early school leaving.
Result
•Acquisition by school teachers of the skills to prevent and tackle early school leaving

19. The project main activities
D) Development of educational materials
•Involvement of teachers in hands-on experience (learning by doing) aimed to test the
skills and abilities acquired during the course, through the creation of education
materials on the prevention of early school leaving
Result
•Collection of educational products on the prevention of early school leaving
•Each group of teachers, properly assisted by experts and coordinated by the partners
will create:
a product addressed to students in order to raise awareness on the issue of dropping
out of school
a product aimed at teachers, in order to help them identify and prevent dropping out of
school

20. Stay@School Project website:
http://projects.pixel-
online.org/stayatschool/info/project.php
Contact: Andreea Cleminte, andreea.cleminte@euroed.ro
I am not scared Project website:
http://iamnotscared.pixel-
online.org/info/project.php