OBJECTIVES

Objectives:

• promotion of examples of good practice by sharing our experience in reducing school and family violence with other schools from other countries; 
• professional development of the staff involved in education (teachers, parents, managers); 

• promotion of the cooperation between various organizations involved in adults’ education throughout Europe; 
• promotion of the cooperation between informal and formal education systems from various countries; 
• development of innovative practices in adults’ education; 
• elaboration of useful educational devices for all European institutions providing formal and informal education: a manual, DVD-s containing movies and other presentations, a Project blog, a chat on the reduction of school and family violence and on adult education;
• improvement of linguistic, computer, inter-cultural skills on the part of both parents and students; 
• enhancement of the development of mediation skills for parents, students and teachers, by holding peer-parents,  peer-students and peer-teachers consultations concerning "The reduction of school and family violence”; 
• consolidation of the relationships between school, the parents and the local community; 
• case studies aimed at identifying the main factors which bring along violence between students and teachers; 
• promotion of a set of measures that can be taken in order to reduce school violence; 
• open to diversity and presenting the basics of democracy;
• democratic decision making and social responsibility, basic social and emotional abilities; 
• promotion of tolerance and responsible behavior, with no physical or verbal abuse neither within the family nor at school;

SUBJECTS AND PROBLEMS TO BE ADDRESSED: 

since the development of a child’s personality is 70% influenced by family, and so is school integration, we will train teachers and parents in order to ensure a safe environment at home and at school, with no violence. 

We will address issues such as violence in the family and schools, the violence caused by media and also internet, experience exchanges,  solving conflicts, social responsibility, open to diversity, democratic ABC.

APPROACHES: 

parents, teachers and students will be involved in all the activities that this project will contain, such as informal education, trainings,  seminars, publications, web pages, brochures,  workshop, conferences, symposiums.

Summary of Grundtvig Project "No more tears"

The purpose of this project is to minimise the occurrence of violence at school and in family behaviors by means of a thorough collaboration between the school and the parents, as well as to provide training to teachers/parents/students in conflict mediation and in the promotion of an assertive behavior. Family will have an important part within this project. Qualified studies show that 54% of aggressive young people come from families experiencing permanent arguments and serious, repeated conflicts. A sound, stable family environment will give the child balance and security, which is why we will be using informal training methods to enhance the parents’ ability to communicate and solve conflicts. One of the social and educational issues we have identified during these last few years is  physical and verbal abuse on the part of school children when relating to their family and peers. We will be able to identify, compare and analyze methods and examples of good practice in conflict mediation that each partner school uses. We will make beneficial experience exchanges and give examples of good practice in order to reduce violence and we will jointly elaborate a schedule and a training material for teachers, parents and students within the framework of the project .During the first year we will make case studies and will design activities meant to identify the main factors which bring along family and school violence, while debating on a number of methods used to prevent violence and solve conflicts. During the second year we will design the training material and will hold peer-parents, peer-students and peer-teachers consultations concerning "The reduction of family and school violence”.
The project will be a bridge between all the partners who will  share their culture.