Keeping Youth Safe from Cyberbullying

Aims & objectives

This training course was funded as part of the Erasmus+KA2 Youth project Keeping Youth Safe from Cyberbullying (2016-3-TR01-KA205-036619).

The training course was written and facilitated by Daniel Dixon and supported by:

-Onur Tahmaz from Uludag University in Bursa who provided research,project management and coordination of the Turkish participants.
-Dana Balas from Aurel University,Arad who provided research,project management and coordination of the Romanian participants.
-Jocelyn Deloyer from CNP Belgium who provided research,project management and coordination of the Belgian participants.

The aim was for the 40 youth workers to have a deeper understanding about cyberbullying, the effected of it, and how they can support young people. As part of the course, the youth workers designed a tool kit including activities that they tested during the course.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

Four organisations were involved in this KA2 project.
- Ulula University in Bursa,Turkey was the applicant partner and were joined in the project by:
- Aurel University,Arad,Romania;
- Centre Neuro-Psychiatrique Saint-Martin,Dave,Belgium;
- Asociación Cultural Social y Educativa Segundas
Oportunidades,Telde,Spain.
10 Youth workers from each of the four countries attended the training.

Training methods used & main activities

-Project-/Problem-based approach
-Collaborative learning
-Peer teaching
-Role-playing
-Learning by doing
-Collaborative learning
-Team games

Outcomes of the activity

The outcome of this course was a tool kit that is available freely online and on Salto youth.
https://cyberbullying.eu/announcement/c1-training-course-in-spain/

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I was the lead trainer and facilitator and designed the course.

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.