The Project
Addict to you
“Addict To You” project is a strategic partnership project in the field of school education. The main purpose is to enable educators and adolescent leaders to develop inclusive activities, in which school students can actively participate, with the objective of creating and enhancing social and behavioural skills that prevent behavioural addictive behaviours.
Objetives
The main purpose
The main purpose of the project is to develop, test and implement innovative working methods in the field of school education that enable the development of inclusive activities in which school education pupils can actively participate, regardless of their needsand personal or social situations.
The specific objectives are:
- Create innovative practices in the field of school education through the development of a working methodology based on non-formal education and the development of inclusive activities in order to identify, strengthen and evaluate significant competences for the personal and social development of students to prevent the main behavioural (non-substance) addictions
- Reduce the harmful effects of behavioural addictions in school settings, especially for school children with fewer opportunities.
- Increase the transferability of innovative and non-formal methodologies through the development of interactive and digitised training.
- Organisational development of 6 institutions with different cultural and organisational experiences and strengthening of the partnership for cooperation between them through the development and dissemination of project results and innovative working methodologies created in the field of school and non-formal education.
Results
Research on behavioral addictions in adolescents (degree of consumption and perception of adolescents on the main behavioral addictions) and analysis of prevention systems used in the school context (at least, 30 educational systems for the prevention of behavioural addictions used in school contexts at transnational level).
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Toolkit “Addict to you”. This toolkit is developed in a digital training which will be hosted on an e-learnig platform and aims to train school educators ans social educators on the main behavioural addictions in adolescents: gambling, cyberadicction, social media addiction and disorders caused by videogames.
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Methodological guide for school educators for the identification of adolescent leaders (school ambassadors) and how to encourage their involvement through the development of the “Addict to tou” methodology.
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School exchange “School ambassadors Addict to you” in Cubillos del Sil (Spain), where the selected school ambassadors will be trained in the “Addict to you” methodology.