The REVIS project comes to an end - young people and professionals from four countries came to Budapest for the closing conference

The REVIS - REsponding to VIolence against children in Schools and adjacent settings - project, which has been running for more than two years, is coming to an end. The two-day final conference was held on 8 and 9 March in Budapest, organised by the project coordinator Terre des hommes Hungary. This regional conference, in which all four participating countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia - were represented was a thematic advocacy event on school violence, where young people involved in the project played an active role alongside practitioners.

On the first day of the conference, the participating delegations in the project got to know each other, discussed their main experiences and lessons learned during the project implementation, and then the delegations finalised their interventions for the plenary conference for the following day, jointly reflecting on the key messages they intended to convey to the wider audience. In the second half of the day, the young people and teachers involved in the project visited the Móra Ferenc Primary School in Zugló, where they learned about a Hungarian good practice to tackle school violence called the Békés Iskolák (Peaceful Schools) programme. The education professionals from the four countries took part in a professional round-table discussion to learn about Terre des hommes' activities, its work on child participation and to exchange experiences on the current situation in education and responses to school violence at national level.

On the plenary day of the conference, 9 March, participants heard a presentation by a European Commission staff member on the EU strategy on the rights of the child and the functioning of the Eurochild European network. Later in the day, young people, together with their teachers, shared their experiences of the REVIS project with the audience. They then presented the important results and impacts achieved in the schools involved in the four countries, and the diverse methods and campaigns they have developed and implemented to tackle school violence. The audience heard several creative presentations from each country, some of which included a short film or even a musical composition. To close the day, the young people shared their chosen advocacy messages to combat school violence with the audience, and received responses and reflections from experts from their own countries.

Press release about the conference by Eurochild: The REVIS project reached more than 80 facilitators, teachers and 1,600 children – Eurochild

The REVIS project is co-funded by the European Union's Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020).