Anti-Bullying Certification (ABC)

Programme: Erasmus +
Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type: Strategic Partnerships for school education

Summary:
“The Smile of the Child” participates as a partner in the ABC (Anti-Bullying Certification) project. The ABC project aims to develop a certification process to support schools in developing an effective anti-bullying policy, which includes sensitive attention to more general social inclusion and to 21th Century conflict solving skills among both students and school staff.

Project Coordinator:
Stichting Global Alliance for LGBT Education (ND)
Partners:
1. Merseyside Expanding Horizons Limited (UK),
2. The Smile of the Child (EL),
3. Fondazione Hallgarten - Franchetti Centro Studi Villa Montesca (IT),
4. Asociación Cívica de Comunicación y Educación Sophia - ACCESO (ES),
5. European Antibullying Network (BE),
6. CESIE (IT)

The project has duration 24 months from 31/12/2017 till 30/12/2019.

Each partner works in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain and the U.K. with one school. The schools are supported with a procedure, a survey, a staff training and a toolkit. The core of the project is the strategic and certification process which takes place during one full school year. After the project, the European Antibullying Network (EAN) will disseminate and sustain the certification procedure.