This project involves students from Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary and Spain focusing on the widespread issue of bullying in schools. The objectives are to introduce bullying as a problem and find solutions, develop international skills through collaboration, and improve language skills. Students will discuss what bullying means, recognize different forms, act out scenarios, write stories, and publish an eBook. They will provide feedback through an online questionnaire to evaluate what they learned from working internationally on this important topic.

1. Be a buddy, don’t be a bully
Countries:
Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Spain
The project is focused on a widespread phenomenon in many schools: bullying. Students
take into account the different forms in which it occurs and the effects that bullying can
generate and try to find suitable approaches to the problem resolution.
During the project students create concept maps and word cloud, and together they write the
stories which are then published in an eBook. The project is in English but first national
languages are allowed as well.
Objectives (Aims)
• Introducing the bullying as a widespread problem and find solution approaches
• Developing international skills since the project is carried out in different countries
• Developing skills in the foreign language:
- English for communication in TwinSpace
- Improvement of written and oral comprehension
- Development of skill in the writing (stories, comments).
• Develop the ability to work in teams and improve the ability to act independently
Procedure
1. What does the word “bully” mean to you? (Through the tool “Answer garden” pupils of every
school (or classes) will answer to several questions related to the issue, then we create a
padlet with the single school results. Every team introduces the pupils to the eTwinning
project.
2. Introducing the different teams of students, schools and cities with the help of videos and
puzzles and so on (every teacher chooses several tools). This activity will be done in the
twinspace so that to make the pupils familiar to it.
3. Teachers make a presentation (prezi or other tools like sway) with the results of all schools,
then every teacher will show the presentation to the students and explain to students what
bullying means and open a discussion during a circle time workshop.
4. Recognizing the different forms of bullying: - pupils of each partner school work individually
on different forms of bullying. Everyone, who wants, can write or tell an example of bullying.
5. Students will choose an example of bullying (the choice will be made using a tool for voting).
The chosen situation will be acted as a forum theater scene and it will be recorded and put
on the twinspace. Students of each country choose one scene and they will act it again with
other solution.
6. Searching video on the Internet focused on the theme of bullying among young people in
school and they choose one to be presented to the class, explaining the reasons for the
choice. Eventually it was voted the video to be shown to the partner schools and then shared
in the TwinSpace; - Students list the words related to the topic of bullying that are then used
to create word cloud and conceptual maps; - The students watch videos shared by partners
and comment on them together.
4. Write stories on bullying: the partner schools collaboratively write stories focused on
bullying; the various parts of the story - the beginning, development, happy ending or not,

2. illustrations and title - are made by the various partner schools so that the students of each
school are involved in all created stories.
Key Competencies Subjects Art, Ethics, Foreign Languages, Social Sciences Level 12-15
Each partner school: - working in small groups, think of what could be an interesting story
about bullying to make and write the beginning of history using, at the conclusion, the
technique of "cliffhanger" to create suspense.
The beginning of the story is then passed to the next partner schools who write the
continuation with two different endings (one happy and the other is not); - Read any stories
written in collaboration between all partners; - Writes the continuation of a story; - Illustrates
a story; - Decide the title of a story.
5. Products (stories, illustrations, titles) are shared in the TwinSpace and discussed by the
partners in the Forum.
6. Finally, the individual parts are put together and the stories published in an eBook.
Evaluation The evaluation of the work is done by administering an online questionnaire and
taking into account comments made in the TwinSpace. Pupils are asked what they have
learned through the project, as it was for them to work in the TwinSpace, what they liked
more, what problems have come across and if they are interested in carrying out other
projects. The outcome of the assessment can be made available to everyone in the
TwinSpace; if an external software is used as SurveyMonkey, you can embed a
questionnaire in the TwinSpace. Following An audiobook may accompany the eBook. You
can also later add new contributions to the collection of the stories have already been
completed. In addition, the stories may be recited by the students.