Project Summary
Cyberbullying of vulnerable young people is a reality and an increasing concern among all Erasmus+ countries. The recent events and heavy reliance on the internet caused by the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need for an urgent response that will enable both young people and youth workers to better deal with cyberbullying. At this critical point in time, the RJ4All International Institute brought together a strategic partnership from four Erasmus+ countries to address multiple Sectorial and Horizontal programme priorities.
The project will exchange its results at national and European levels, helping in this way to achieve the objectives of the new EU Youth Strategy and the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy in the field of youth.
The projects aims to support youth workers and other professionals working with young who are at risk of cyberbullying. It will increase the skills, knowledge and confidence that will allow these professionals to foster their young peoples’ resilience as well as knowledge in using the internet and being safe from cyberbullying. This will be achieved through the project tailored and evidence-based accredited training and other social actions,which will drive innovation and quality in European youth work. The project will accredit these courses with a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) status, certifying all trainees and in this way promoting the quality of youth work and validating a grey area of youth. 
The strategic partnership has been formed in a way that it will allow it to pilot the project’s training tools adapting them to (a) local needs (b) EU wide context. In particular, the project will disseminate at national and international levels innovative tools (1 course, 1 e-course, 1 ebook) for the development of skills and competences. These results will also include inbuilt assessment tools creating for the first time educational and training material that are CPD accredited and which will help prevent cyberbullying with an emphasis on sexual orientation.
Among the main priorities of the project is to support opportunities for all in acquiring and developing key competences and innovative practices in a digital Era and the strengthening of professional staff in all participating organizations and institutions, raising the quality of innovative education to the exploration of new
methodology for the safe use of the internet. To improve the quality of the implementation of the curriculum improvement in this area will bring a high level of knowledge about cybersecurity. Our aim is also to improve young peoples’ digital literacy and the use of technology in a safe way. Enhancing this knowledge and
experiences will enable our target groups’ adaptation to the digital age and shape their future professions. We will increase the quality of the implementation by trying to get the tutors’ knowledge about safe use of the internet and cyberbullying. The project also aims to minimize the harassment of students that have bad habits with the use of the Internet through innovative education.
Help us stop Cyberbullying and promote the safe use of the Internet with the SIAC project!
On January 14th 2021, partners of the Safe Internet Against Cyberbullying (SIAC) Erasmus+ project came together for their first project meeting. It was held online due to the global travel restrictions currently in place during the coronavirus pandemic.
There are 5 project partners, including: RJ4ALL: Restorative Justice for All (UK) who are the project coordinators; Kairos Europe Ltd (UK), EURO SUD (Italy), INERCIA DIGITAL SL (Spain), and VisMedNet Association (Malta). The project will run for 24 months from 01 December 2020.
Cyberbullying of vulnerable young people is a reality and an increasing concern among all Erasmus+ countries. The recent events and heavy reliance on the internet caused by the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need for an urgent response that will enable both young people and youth workers to better deal with cyberbullying. At this critical point in time, the RJ4All International Institute brought together a strategic partnership from four Erasmus+ countries to address multiple Sectorial and Horizontal programme priorities.
The project will exchange its results at national and European levels, helping in this way to achieve the objectives of the new EU Youth Strategy and the Erasmus+ Inclusion and Diversity Strategy in the field of youth. In particular: promoting quality, innovation and recognition of youth work; supporting individuals in acquiring and developing basic skills and key competences; and innovative practices in a digital era.
In order for the project to achieve its goal, the following objectives will be achieved:
- O1: to understand the extent, seriousness, and dynamics of cyberbullying,
- O2: to recognize and respond early and effectively to behaviours that can lead to cyberbullying,
- O3: to learn about new, effective strategies for controlling bullying.
- O4: to raise awareness among the youngest regarding the problems that emerge from a wrong use of the internet, such as social media.
To this end, we will deliver 3 Intellectual outputs:
- IO1: Preventing Cyberbullying: Curriculum and implementation
- IO2: Accredited e-course for cyberbullying prevention.
- IO3: E-book consolidating and comparing the learning from the project and including policy recommendations.
The project aims to understand the extent, seriousness, and dynamics of cyberbullying, to learn about new effective strategies for controlling bullying, and to raise awareness among the youngest regarding the problems that emerge from a wrong use of the internet, such as social media.
The project will deliver three main outputs:
1. A training curriculum for youth workers and young people on how to preventing Cyberbullying
2. An accredited e-course for cyberbullying prevention for young people
3. An eBook consolidating the learning from the project and including policy recommendations.
“We strongly believe that this project is more timely than ever, with so many children and young adults learning and living online as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At RJ4All, we believe that through power sharing and non-hierarchical dialogue we can progress matters that have traditionally been treated through top down “solutions”, which are often distant from peoples’ realities. We look forward to working with our new partners on this exciting and important project”. – Dr Theo Gavrielides, RJ4All’s Founder and Director
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We continue with the development of the #SIACproject. María Fernández Reyes has met again with the partners of VisMedNet Association, Kairos Europe, Restorative Justice For All (RJ4All) International Institute and EUROSUD NGO to plan the development of the methodology to prevent #cyberbullying. #eramusplus #SIACproject #InerciaDigital #europeanproject
NEWSLETTER #1
Check out our first newsletter!https://mailchi.mp/125d75d04540/siac-newsletter-1
FIRST TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING
On 12th October 2021 the SIAC partners met in Malta for the first face-to-face meeting of the project. Partners discussed about the project implementation and also met with local stakeholders, who will play an important role in the next stages of the project.
PRESS RELEASE – NOVEMBER 2021
We are thrilled to announce the recent publication of the e-book Safe Internet Against Cyberbullying (SIAC). LGBTI discrimination and the current state of art in the UK, Spain, Malta and Italy. https://siacproject.org/
The e-book, produced by all partners in the Erasmus+ SIAC project, summarises the current state of the art in relation to cyberbullying, legal initiatives and best practice in the UK, Malta, Spain and Italy. It highlights the significance of the issue as well as the gaps in addressing it.
The e-book can be freely accessed and downloaded at this link:https://www.rj4allpublications.com/product/siac/
PREPARING FOR THE MEETING IN SPAIN
Today we have had an online meeting of the #SIACproject in which the partners have talked about the next face-to-face meeting that will be held in April at the Inercia Digital training and innovation Center in Huelva
. In addition, the methodology to prevent cyberbullying that we have developed together is almost ready and next month we will work on the creation of the accredited online course
#SIACPROJECT KEEPS MOVING FORWARD!
The #SIACproject keeps moving forward! 
Today we had the monthly meeting with all the project partners to plan our next mobilities and activities of the project.
On April 6th we will celebrate the second transnational meeting at the Inercia Digital Training and Innovation Center in Huelva
. We are also going to start working on the second result of the project, which consists of an online course to prevent #cyberbullying.
#erasmusproject#europeanproject
The second transnational meeting at the #InerciaDigital Center in Huelva Spain
Today the partners of the #SIACproject have held the second transnational meeting of the #erasmusplus project at the #InerciaDigital Innovation and Training Center in Huelva #.During the meeting we have seen the progress of the first result which has been the development of content to prevent #cyberbullying and we have organized all tasks relating to the second result, which will consist of an online course on e cyberbullying through an e-learning platform. The next mobility will be in London where we will be attending a course for trainers on cyberbullying prevention.Today the partners of the #SIAC project have held the second transnational meeting of the #europeanproject at the #InerciaDigital Training and Innovation Center in Huelva
.During the meeting, we have seen the progress of the first result, which has been the development of content to prevent #cyberbullying, and we have organized all the tasks related to the second result, which will consist of an online course on cyberbullying through an online e-learning platform. The next mobility will be in London where we will attend a course for trainers on cyberbullying prevention.
NEWSLETTER #2
Have a look at our latest newsletter giving a gist of where we are in the project, what happened in the past few months, and what will be our next actionshttps://siacproject.org/…/2022/08/Newsletter-3.docx.pdf
Ready our handbook
Our handbook Preventing cyberbullying towards LGBTQ+ groups: A Training Handbook for youth workers, developed by the SIAC partnership, is finally online and available for consultation and download. is addressed to educators/youth leaders, organisations and players around the phenomenon of cyberbullying related to LGBTIQ. It introduces cyberbullying related to LGBTIQ along with its forms, the concept of restorative justice and how to effectively prevent and intervene cyberbullying. It aims to provide professionals with tools in order to support young people form cyberbullying.
Here is the download link:
INTERNATIONAL TRAINING EVENT IN LONDON UK
From 14-16 June we held the SIAC international training event in London, hosted by Kairos Europe LtdThe training focused on the methodology and curriculum developed by the partnership for Promoting a Safe Use of Internet against Cyber bullying.
NEWSLETTER #3
Have a look at our latest newsletter giving a gist of where we are in the project, what happened in the past few months, and what will be our next actions
https://siacproject.org/…/2022/08/Newsletter-3.docx.pdf
TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING IN BARI ITALY
Just concluded 3rd transnational project meeting in Bari for the educational project Promoting a Safe Use of Internet Against Cyberbullying. @Safe Internet Against Cyberbullying – SIACWe have been discussing the state of art of the activities and the next steps to follow and complete the programme.Participating in this meeting Restorative Justice for All International Institute 
EUROSUD 
VisMedNet Association 
Kairos Europe Limited- Online Inercia Digital SL
#SIACproject is testing its online course for #youthleaders and #educators on #cyberbullying about #sexualorientation.This is a quick intro https://youtu.be/z_WFdmp6lb4Vis Med Net Association
NEWSLETTER #4
Partners are in the process of finalising the SIAC E-book, which will be published at the
beginning of November.
The SIAC E-book will bring together all the research, pilots, learning and findings of the
project into one e-book that will feature chapters in the participating languages as well as a
comparative chapter in English. This e-book will be the first in the area, paving the way for
Europe. The e-book will be the biggest legacy of the project.
The e-book will feature in two versions:
- Short version with all the executive summaries of the national chapters in English
including a comparative chapter in English - Long version with chapters reflecting the findings from each participating country
and written in local languages. This version will also include the capacity building
material as well as the evaluation from the piloting.
A SECTION OF SIAC WEBSITE CONTAINS A SERIES OF VIDEOS TO INTRODUCE THE PROBLEM OF CYBERBULLYING
This section contains a series of videos created by project partners to introduce the problem of cyberbullying to the wider audience.https://siacproject.org/videos/
4TH AND FINAL TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING IN LONDON
On 24th November we held the 4th and finalTransnational Project Meeting in London, hosted by Kairos Europe Ltd
THE RJ4ALL ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: BUILDING BRIDGES & CONNECTING GREAT MINDS
It was great to present the Safe Internet Against Cyberbullying – SIAC project to a diverse and motivated audience during the RJ4ALL Annual International Conference: Building Bridges & Connecting Great Minds, which was held in London on 25th November 2022.
