Teacher Training & Classroom Management
Cyberbullying: Prevention and Response in Schools
A pupil shows you a screenshot, and what happens in the next ten minutes matters more than any policy document. This week you write your school's protocol for those ten minutes — and test it against what pupils can now generate of one another.
Duration5 days · 25 hrs
LanguageEnglish (B1+)
Group sizeMax 20
CertificateAttendance+ Europass Mobility
FundingErasmus+ eligible
AudienceAll school levels
Why this is Erasmus+ eligible
Structured, multi-day programme (5 days) with a pre-defined schedule and learning outcomes — not a passive lecture format.
Built around interaction: participants engage directly with the trainer and with peers from other countries throughout the course.
Transnational by design — open to participants travelling from outside the host country, a core requirement of Erasmus+ mobility funding.
Overview
A pupil shows a teacher a screenshot — a threatening message, a humiliating group chat, a fake account built to mock a classmate. What happens in the next ten minutes usually matters more than anything written in the school’s policy. Does this teacher know the difference between stepping in early and making it worse? Is there a clear next step, or does it depend on who happens to be in the staffroom that morning?
The European Commission has an answer with a shape to it. Its action plan against cyberbullying is built on three pillars — protection, prevention and awareness, and reporting and support — and each one asks something different of a school. Underneath it sits machinery a teacher can actually use on the day. Every member state has a Safer Internet Centre, and 116 111 is the child helpline. The Commission is also rolling out an online safety app, so that a young person can report an incident, store and submit the evidence, and get help without an adult having to work out the process from scratch.
The week takes the three pillars in turn and adds the part that has changed fastest. Monday is recognition: the forms it takes, and which pillar your own school is weakest on. Tuesday is prevention — norms agreed with pupils rather than announced at them, the signals that come before an incident, and a short film that makes the cost visible from three sides.
Wednesday is the newer problem. Pupils can now generate images and clone voices of each other in minutes, which is a different kind of harm and, increasingly, a different kind of legal matter. Thursday is the response itself — de-escalating, preserving evidence properly, using the real reporting channels, and supporting the target, the bystanders and the child doing the bullying. Friday everything becomes one document.
That document is the point of the week. Not a general commitment to take bullying seriously, but a written protocol for one school: who is told, in what order, within what time, through which channel, and how the evidence is kept. It is short enough to be read in a staff meeting and specific enough to be followed by whoever happens to be there when the screenshot appears.
Methodology
The EU's Own Structure, Not a House Model
The week is built on the three pillars of the European Commission's action plan against cyberbullying and on the channels that exist underneath it, so what participants take home connects to services that are already running in their own country.
Every Scenario Is a Real One
Anonymised incidents, role-play from the bystander's position, and case studies involving generated material — participants decide responses under the same ambiguity a real morning provides, rather than discussing bullying in general.
The Week Produces One Document
Everything converges on a written intervention protocol for the participant's own school, tested by colleagues against a live scenario before it is taken home.
What you'll take home
Place an incident from your own school against the three pillars of the EU action plan, and name which pillar your school is least prepared for.
Set up prevention that pupils have agreed to rather than been told about, and recognise the signals that appear before an incident is reported.
Judge an incident involving generated images or a cloned voice: what the school handles, what has to go further, and what the law now says about non-consensual manipulated material.
Write and test an intervention protocol for your own school — who is told, in what order, within what time, through which channel, and how evidence is preserved.
Daily programme
- Icebreaker: "Digital Footprint Circle" — in pairs, participants map the platforms their own students use most, surfacing where cyberbullying actually happens before the course frames it theoretically
- Presentations of participants' schools
- The forms it takes: exclusion, impersonation, fake accounts, sustained group-chat pressure, image-based harassment — and how differently each one looks from the outside
- The European Commission's action plan against cyberbullying: its three pillars — protection, prevention and awareness, and reporting and support — and what each one asks of a school
- Working session: each participant places two incidents from their own school against the three pillars and names the pillar their school is least prepared for
- Warm-up: quick team-building activity to reconnect the group
- What prevention actually consists of: norms agreed with a class rather than announced to it, and the behaviour signals that tend to appear before an incident is ever reported
- Short film screening and discussion: the cost seen from three sides — the target, the bystander and the child doing the bullying
- Making a prevention resource: participants build a short visual narrative on cyberbullying and body shaming of the kind they can produce with their own class
- Peer feedback on the visual narratives, judged on whether a fourteen-year-old would sit through them
- What pupils can now make of each other in minutes — a face in a photograph they never posed for, a voice saying something never said — and why "do not share photos" no longer covers the risk
- Where the legal line moved: Directive (EU) 2024/1385 requires every member state to criminalise non-consensual intimate or manipulated material, including sexualised deepfakes, with national law due by June 2027
- Labelling and evidence: what the EU AI Act has required of generated content since August 2026, and why a screenshot on its own is a weak record
- Case-study analysis: anonymised incidents involving generated material — deciding for each whether it is a classroom matter, a safeguarding matter or a police matter
- What to say to the parents of both children, and what not to promise either of them
- Reacting when it surfaces: de-escalation, what reliably makes it worse, and the difference between acting early and acting loudly
- Preserving evidence properly, and the online safety app the Commission is rolling out so a young person can report an incident and submit evidence directly
- The channels that actually exist: your national Safer Internet Centre in the Insafe network, the 116 111 child helpline, and the platforms' own reporting flows — practised, not listed
- Small-group role-play: responding to an incident from the bystander's position, which is where most incidents are first visible
- Supporting all three parties: the target, the bystanders who saw it, and the child who did it — including what changes when that child is eleven rather than fifteen
- Writing session: each participant writes the protocol for their own school — who is told, in what order, within what time, through which channel, and how evidence is kept
- Protocol review in small groups: three colleagues run a scenario from Day 3 against it and name the point where it breaks
- Revision time: participants amend their own protocol before taking it home
- Course evaluation: round-up of competencies, feedback and discussion
- Awarding of the Course Certificate of Attendance
Please note: sessions run from 09:30 to 15:00, Monday to Friday, with a break for lunch. Timings can shift a little to suit the venue and the group. If you'd like a specific topic covered, let us know when you apply — the confirmed day-by-day schedule is sent to registered participants ahead of the course.
Certificate: we issue the Certificate of Attendance to everyone who's present for at least 80% of the course — tracked with the daily sign-in sheet (see Certificate & assessment).
Equipment: a few of our courses ask participants to bring a laptop — check the day-by-day programme above, or ask us if you're not sure.
Need a formal invoice or proforma for your school's records? Ask us — we issue official invoices with the participant's name and course details.
Course page last updated: 5 September 2026
Materials & tools
The three pillars of the European Commission's action plan against cyberbullying, used from Day 1 as the framework the week is organised around
The #NotOnOurFeed toolkit — over 190 cyberbullying resources gathered by the European Safer Internet Centres, including material on AI-related abuse, worked with on Day 2 and Day 4
The Insafe network of Safer Internet Centres and the 116 111 child helpline — the channels rehearsed on Day 4, with each participant locating their own country's centre
Anonymised case studies, including incidents involving generated images and cloned voices, used on Day 3
A written intervention protocol for your own school, produced and tested on Day 5 and taken home
Certificate & assessment
This is a Certificate of Attendance, not an exam-based qualification — recognition comes from completing the structured programme, not from passing a test. The real, lasting value is in the competencies listed above under What you'll take home.
Type your name above — clearly marked "SAMPLE" in the PDF, not an official document.
The real certificate is signed by your trainer and EMA's authorised signatory. Your own signature isn't on this document — it's captured separately, on the Europass Mobility document.
Need to verify a real certificate? Check it online using the serial number and participant's full name, or contact us directly — [email protected], OID E10304561.
Attendance
Tracked using a sign-in sheet with one signature per participant per day (paper or digital). This record is used to issue your Certificate of Attendance and Europass Mobility document. View sign-in sheet (PDF)
Output
Every participant leaves with a completed Dissemination & School Impact Plan — a step-by-step template for applying the course back at your school (see below).
Feedback
An end-of-course evaluation form is sent to every participant after the course ends — a chance to reflect on what you've learned and how you'll apply it, and it helps us keep improving the course for future participants.
Your paperwork
Keep your travel tickets, boarding passes and (if you used green travel) any related receipts — your school or National Agency may ask for these for their own Erasmus+ reporting.
How to prepare
Bring your school's current anti-bullying or e-safety policy if it has one. The protocol you write on Friday has to sit alongside it rather than contradict it, and it is much faster to write with the existing wording in front of you.
Come with two incidents your school has actually dealt with, anonymised. The week works on real cases rather than invented ones, and your own are the ones you will have to handle again.
No technical knowledge is required. Nothing in the week asks you to be a cybersecurity specialist — the skill being built is judgement about what to do and in what order.
Practical information
Registration & documents
Not sure how registering works or what paperwork is involved? See our full Registration & Documents guide — from applying to your Certificate of Attendance, in one place.
Invitation letter
Need a formal invitation letter for your school or embassy? Request one — we send it within 2 business days. See a sample (PDF).
Learning Agreement
Prepared by our staff and sent to you and your school once your registration form is submitted — see what it looks like. See a sample (PDF).
Billing & invoicing
We issue official invoices/proformas with the participant's name and course details — ask us. Payment is due in full by bank transfer before the course start date. See a sample (PDF).
Airport transfer
Guidance on getting from the nearest airport to the venue is included in your welcome information.
Accommodation
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School impact
After completing this Teacher Training & Classroom Management course, the participating staff member can transfer outcomes directly to their school: a short briefing for colleagues sharing the key takeaways, applying relevant tools or strategies from the programme in their own role, and inclusion of the course materials in the school's professional development resources — turning one person's mobility into a wider institutional gain that supports the school's European Development Plan. Use the Dissemination & School Impact Plan below to fill in your own — it saves as you go and can generate a one-page summary for your coordinator too.
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Classroom or institutional application
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Give the admin a one-page summary: what the course delivered, the cost, how it feeds into the school plan, and the expected outcome.
Follow-up & impact check-in
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After the course
Participants will receive their certificates (Certificate of Attendance + Europass).
Participants will complete a general course evaluation and event survey.
Participants will receive course materials, videos, photos, and PDF documents in both digital and print formats.
Follow-up support: an email group is created for idea exchange, self-evaluation materials are provided, and participants receive a follow-up check-in after 3 months — by which point the protocol has usually met its first real incident, which is when its gaps become obvious.
Frequently asked
This course is an eligible training activity under Erasmus+ Key Action 1 (School Education Mobility) — the course fee, travel and subsistence fall within the eligible cost categories. Whether it is covered depends on your own project's approved grant agreement and your National Agency's rules; we provide all the invoices, attendance records and certificates your National Agency requires for reporting.
B1 is enough — you do not need to be fluent. Trainers speak slowly and plainly, every session is built around doing something rather than sitting and listening, and groups are mixed by nationality so people help each other out. A rough test: if you could follow a staff meeting held in English and ask a question in it, you will be fine here.
Absolutely — group bookings of 3+ from one school receive priority placement, and we can schedule a dedicated session for groups of 12 or more.
Our courses run on request at our centres in Antalya, İstanbul, İzmir, Mersin, Budapest, Bremen and Rome. Tell us your preferred city and dates and we will arrange a session.
Tuition, all course materials, both certificates (attendance + Europass Mobility) and a half-day guided tour of the host city with a local guide. Flights, accommodation and travel insurance are booked separately — we send a vetted hotel list.
You can move to any later session free of charge. Cancellations made 30+ days before the start date receive a full refund; a reduced refund applies closer to the date — see our full Cancellation & Refund Policy for the exact schedule.
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Where our participants come from
Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.
Romanian
23%
Polish
14%
Lithuanian
10%
Spanish
7%
Portuguese
7%
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