The project is innovative in its focus on cyberbullying among young people in five different regions of the European Union, but also in its aim to be participatory, involving, training and empowering young people as co-researchers. In seeking to work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the study also uniquely aims to explore how these young people are affected by cyberbullying, but also to provide them with accessible, up-to-date resources to help them.
The project will involve young people in each partner region (aged 14-16) in responding to a survey of their experiences of cyberbullying, co-leading quality circle sessions and sequential focus group interviews, and helping create a comic book resource which is highly visual and engaging, as well as feeding into the Guide for Parents/Carers.
The project seeks to produce Intellectual Outputs which will really make a difference to teachers (Lessons and Guide for Teachers), to young people (Comic Book Guide for Pupils), to families (Guide for Parents/Carers) and to internet providers (Summary Recommendations). As such this is a project which is innovative in focus and design, but which has the potential to increase understanding and improve the lives of many hundreds of young people across the five partner regions and beyond.