<< Background >>STAND UP is a project focused on the fight against cyberbullying in VET, especially in IVET and middle VET. Although the European Union is currently very focused on the fight against cyberbullying, there are still important gaps; for example, the list of national agencies to contact in case of being a victim of cyberbullying, which is available in the COE, only includes half of the countries present in this proposal (IE and GRE). In addition, cyberbullying is usually focused and studied only in primary and compulsory secondary education; most of the available studies and materials are focused on students under sixteen years old corresponding to compulsory education, as is the case of Save the Children or Unicef studies. However, VET students, who are usually positioned between 16-24 years old, are not normally the subject of such studies, although if we look at the percentages of the 2017 Unicef study it is clear that bullying goes up as age goes up (there were 14% of participants victims of cyberbullying under 14 years old, and 15% under 16), from which it can be derived that students between 16 and 20 years old still need tools to help them in this area. And even more importantly, teachers, trainers and workers in VET centers who are in contact with these students need tools to know how to manage cyberbullying crises. There are some articles on the subject ( for instance, from the UOC), but they are not current and in many cases do not address the specific problems of EU countries, thus not providing customized solutions for the EU.In this context, the need that STAND UP seeks to fill is that lack of training given explicitly to VET teachers, as well as content designed for VET students. Not only that, it also seeks to give a tool that provides support to teachers, who in many cases have already denounced the danger they see in cyberbullying, and how it is increasing due to the widespread use of cell phones among adolescents and young people. At the same time, the aim is to provide a tool to help students who suffer from cyberbullying, through a mobile application that allows quick access to regional or national contact information, and that provides tools to raise awareness among students about the importance of the fight against cyberbullying. In this way, the most familiar tool for students (the cell phone) will be used as a contact method to solve the needs seen by this proposal.Finally, it should be noted that due to the COVID-19 health crisis in many cases students have had to confine themselves and work from home, having the Internet as the only method of contact with their classmates; this has also led to a higher percentage of students suffering cyberbullying (some studies place cyberbullying ratios 70% higher than before COVID). This need underscores the need for teachers to receive specific training to help them.<< Objectives >>The STAND UP project seeks to achieve the following objectives:- To provide VET teachers, educators, and professionals, especially in IVET and middle VET, with tools that will enable them to understand the process of cyberbullying, recognize signs in the classroom of possible victims, and understand how they can collaborate in their fight against it.- Give VET educators tools that will enable them to provide their students with the knowledge they need to understand cyberbullying and its consequences.- Provide educators with tools and skills to assist their students in case of risk of cyberbullying, or if they know of a case of cyberbullying, to know how to deal with the situation.- Create tools that support social inclusion inside and outside the classroom and encourage the creation of a positive school environment in VET classrooms, using teachers, trainers and VET professionals as a channel for change and improvement.- Support the use of an innovative and digital approach to support pedagogical change in VET.- Provide trainers and students with tools to respond to cyberbullying, now that COVID-19 has led to an increase in cases- Support the continuing education of VET educators.- Promote the creation of VET classes in which tolerance and a positive work environment are ensured, both among the students themselves and between students and faculty.<< Implementation >>STAND UP will carry out a series of activities to meet the anticipated needs and achieve the objectives. To begin with, the project will carry out extensive dissemination of the project results to ensure that the target audience is reached. The project will use Facebook and Instagram as the main methods of dissemination, creating content of interest to both target groups in both cases, but focusing on reaching VET students through Instagram; the project profile will become an anti-cyberbullying information area for its followers, providing VET students with engaging and necessary content to understand how to fight cyberbullying.At the same time, the project will carry out its three main outcomes:- Creation of a training specifically designed for VET trainers on how to detect and fight cyberbullying in the classroom, with content specifically designed for potential confinement situations and online education. The teacher training will be supported by practical content that helps teachers understand how to act in each potential situation, and how to promote a trusting classroom environment that helps potential victims of cyberbullying to come forward and seek help.- Creation of training designed specifically for students, in the form of visual and clear content to encourage students to pay attention and understand the information contained. The training will provide the student with information on how to act in the event of cyberbullying, as well as behavioral tools for those students who believe they are witnessing cyberbullying. The content of this training will be summarized in visual posters that will be shared on the project's Instagram, to bring such content closer to the students. - Creation of a mobile application in which both the training content for teachers and the content for VET students will be available. The mobile application will also contain a database with contacts at regional, national and European level, a repository of useful resources available in the European Union (such as complementary applications, articles, reports...), and lists of factors that may denote a case of cyberbullying, to serve as a behavioral map in case of doubts of cyberbullying in the classroom.On the other hand, the project will carry out a multiplier event in each country, to ensure the dissemination of the results not only among the direct target groups, but also other sectors of interest, such as educational centers, training centers, language schools, relevant authorities, etc.<< Results >>The STAND UP consortium seeks with this project a series of results, mostly directly related to the fight against cyberbullying, but also focused on vocational training. On the one hand, STAND UP seeks to reduce cases of cyberbullying in VET education, through specific training that helps teachers and students to identify such cases, delimiting them and seeking solutions that help the victim to overcome the harassment suffered. In this sense, the expected result of the project is a clear knowledge about ways to act in case of cyberbullying in the classroom, and also ways of identification.In addition, STAND UP seeks as a result to provide users of its mobile application with the contact details of those regional, national and European agencies focused on helping victims of cyberbullying. Often, students who experience cyberbullying are not able to find such agencies, whereas it is natural for them to use a mobile application; by creating STAND UP's app, it will make it easier for them to access such content, promoting contact between young people and the agencies that seek to help them.It also seeks to result in the conversion of VET students into advocates in the fight against cyberbullying; the use of Instagram to reach the target audience hopes to result in aware users who not only help end cyberbullying cases, but also promote an anti-cyberbullying policy in their groups of friends.On the other hand, STAND UP will result in training content explicitly designed for VET teachers. The aim is to increase the transversal competencies and soft skills of VET trainers, giving them new areas of training that will be innovative in relation to the content currently available.Also in terms of innovation, STAND UP will seek as a result to mitigate the negative consequences that COVID-19 has had in relation to cyberbullying. Cases of cyberbullying have skyrocketed during times of confinement, making even more necessary tools that are specific to fight this type of bullying, and STAND UP seeks to solve that problem.The tangible products of the project (training content for VET teachers, training content for VET students, mobile application, project website and project social networks) will be focused at all times on achieving the aforementioned results.