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<< Background >>The main purpose of our project was to prevent social exclusion by preventing peer bullying, violence and hate speech, to ensure social integration of these students, to encourage students to debate and make them tolerant. Feeling insecure with their own abilities, the students and youth interact less and less among each other, less accepting other people’s consideration. A lot of students find it difficult to speak in front of others and rarely involve themselves in active social thinking and public speaking on recent society issues. Failure to school, peer tyranny and lack of social integration force these students to leave school early. Overcoming the negative effects of peer tyranny and self-confidence, self-esteem, social acceptance, tolerance is the basic need of all our partners to help them gain all basic skills. All the schools of the partnership recognized this as a big problem in their communities.<< Objectives >>OBJECTIVES: 1. promoting inter-cultural dialogue between different countries and socio-cultural categories 2. reducing violence, school dropout and inequality by promoting values such as tolerance and acceptance 3. actively involving students in activities that presuppose working in multicultural teams. 4. discouraging the tendency to stereotyping and prejudice based on isolated cases of misbehaviour. 5. enhancing the quality of the relationship among students of different cultural backgrounds and develop their social and communication skills 6. teaching social responsibility, which implies not only helping children become more conscious of the world around them, but also making them better understand themselves and people around them. If this is achieved, schools will evolve and become a place in which mutual support and inclusion are not an exception, but rather the norm. 7. participating in debates which help them developing skills, less represented in schools and formal education, – articulation, way of expression, freedom of thought, holding their ground. 8.Increasing pupils' ability to deal with negative online issues including cyber bullying and grooming by adults.<< Implementation >>Our objective was revealing altruism for possible ways of living together which will be accomplished by involving students in various moral acts, volunteering as a key to overcome heartlessness, cruelty and indifference of others' fate. -CREATIVE DRAMA activities developed empathy skills of the students. They worked together to develop team skills, produce sketches. -NO HATE SPEECH AND FAMILY INTEGRATION activities included the very important role of the family against hate speech. We organised family visits and promote happy families for a happy life.-STOP CYBER BULLYING workshops increased pupils' ability to deal with negative online issues including cyber bullying and grooming by adults; -NO VIOLENCE BUT FRIENDSHIP AND HUMANITARISM ACTIVITIES developed activities against conflict, racism, discrimination, violence, prejudices, drop out and separation. -THE ART OF DEBATING enabled skills for the pupils making the debaters inquisitive, curious, with their own opinion, active persons.BULLYING WITH ART AND SPORT workshops discourage the tendency to stereotyping and prejudice based on isolated cases of misbehaviour<< Results >>The concrete results of the project were as follows: 1.Creativity : Encouraging students to make the most of their lives, participate in sports and cultural, artistic activities they would’ve never tried without this project. 2. Respecting the environment : students were sensitized on the necessity to preserve the environment so that they take steps to be more environmentally- friendly. 3. Pupils were provided with opportunities to increase their social inclusion and will develop a respect for diversity. 4. Creation of resources, including a website section providing information about various pupil wellbeing strategies, including mindfulness techniques; 5. Share good practice among schools in pupil wellbeing to enable each school to introduce at least two new wellbeing strategies; 6.Training for participants about online issues such as cyber bullying and grooming; 7. Guidance provided for pupils and parents/ carers to deal with online issues; 8. Creation of resources, including a website section explaining the various online issues that children can be exposed to and guidance as to how to combat such issues; 9. Formal training for participants from each school regarding Growth Mindset ideology; 10. Workshops