G.U.A.R.D. 2– Formazione e Presidio nei luoghi del tempo libero dei bambini e degli adolescenti contro il cyberbullismo

"<< Background >>The motivation of GUARD 2 is linked to the transformation of our way of communicating thanks to new digital technologies. They certainly offer new opportunities but they also represent risks such as the uncontrolled phenomenon of cyberbullying which afflicts adolescents and increasingly also children. Research clearly highlights how this is one of the biggest risks of a teenager starting his digital life. Most of the available data concerns surveys conducted in industrialized countries with percentages of minors who have experienced it, which vary between 5% and 20% of the juvenile population, with harmful psychophysical consequences and broad social implications, both for the victims and for the authors: among these, there is personal social development, education and psycho-physical well-being of minors, with negative effects that can continue into adulthood and which may also reduce the effectiveness of public investments in education and in the well-being of children in every country (Unicef). In Europe there is no uniform definition of Cyberbullying. Countries in where online harassment, blackmail and extortion are not considered bullying. Countries where the phenomenon is practically ignored.<< Objectives >>The general objective is to equip sports and socio/cultural operators with the key skills to identify the victims and agents of cyberbullying in leisure contexts, combating, preventing and raising awareness against the phenomenon, aimed at the age group from 6 to 18 years. GUARD 2 pays attention to adolescents as the main targets of the threat. We created a Training Module tested with operators of partner organizations. Main outcome: Training Module, necessary for raising awareness and training the operators who will assume the role of cultural antennas to intercept and prevent cases of cyberbullying in leisure contexts among minorsPriorities: a) addressing digital transformation. Provide expertise and soft skills to sports and socio-cultural operatorsb) Improving the competences. Increase the skills and soft skills of sports and socio-cultural operatorsc) Inclusion and diversity. Intervene against cyberbullying of minors with actions that prevent their risk of exclusion. Gender: adolescents and girls are more affected by the percentage cyberbullyingd) Initial and continuous training. Lifelong training learning of the operators who acquire new skillse) Prevention of bullying.f) Digital content, technologies and practices<< Implementation >>MANAGEMENT - Project management, organization of meetings and activities and financial management. A control room and multi-sectoral coordination (sociologists, economists, psychologists) has been established FOCUS GROUPS - Organization of focus groups to verify operators' needs; Analysis of focus group results;Discussion meeting on the analysis of the focus groups; Drafting reports on the results of the focus groups; Identification of facilitators and observers; Organization of focus groups.GOOD PRACTICES- the most significant experiences, procedures or actions, or in any case those that have allowed to obtain the best results in relation to the fight against cyberbullying. Sharing the analysis of the collection good practices; delivery of reports on collection results.CREATION AND TESTING OF TRAINING MODULES - Sharing of the analysis of focus group results and good practices; Discussion meeting on focus analysis group and good practices; Delivery of reports on the results o; Definition and creation of the modules.EVALUATION - Sharing and preparation of evaluation tools, using them to verify the achievement of objectives,a tool created by UISP for the evaluation of good practices based on a questionnaire<< Results >>The most important outputs are:The results of the Focus Groups: each partner organized a Focus Group aimed at sports operators and social workers in order to raise their awareness on the topic of cyberbullying and to receive input and suggestions from those who have very frequent contact with children, potential victims or perpetrators of acts of cyberbullying. Not only that, but also to obtain useful indications for building the training modules. The results of the Focus Groups were analyzed by the CNR partner IRCRES which produced a document made available on the results platform and attached to this report.The Training Module: Each partner has developed, based on their expertise, one of the three parts of which the module is made up: Part 1: identification of possible cases of cyberbullying; Part 2: ""emergency intervention"" when a case of cyberbullying is identified; Part 3: long-term actions to counter the phenomenon. The 3 parts together constitute the 8-hour ""Training Module"". The training module is available in 4 languages: English, Italian, Greek and North Macedonian.The website and Facebook page: The website contains, among the various sections, also the PDF versions of the Training Module"