NO VIOLENCE , NO BULLYING, NO SILENCE under the Erasmus + framework
and Greek NA ( INDEVIM)
31ST OF JULY -6TH OF AUGUST 2019
ATHENS , GREECE
According to latest statistics 19% of young people across Europe have been bullied, the highest rates being registered in Poland and Greece. Greece is the 4th country in Europe known for student bullying, only superseded by Poland. The past two years, there have been recorded a total of 251,640 cases of bullying all over the world.
The project is following the priorities of the Erasmus+ Programme for 2018 and more specific marginalized youth, the νpromotion of diversity, tolerance and freedom and through the respect for human rights. Youth workers from 7 countries Greece, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania are going to debate various topics, such as: what bullying is, how it can manifest, and how can it be prevented, giving the opportunity to those who have suffered from being bullied to speak up for themselves and share their experience through examples.
The project aims to address bullying in aspects of life and includes: verbal bullying (insults, mocking, threats), physical bullying (hits, beatings, inadequate touching), relational bullying (exclusion, spreading rumors), as well as indirect bullying (property theft, destruction, graffiti, vandalism). At the same time seeking to find concrete solutions to help the social integration and the increase of self-esteem of those who were victims of bullying.