Proiectul REVIS se încheie - tineri și profesioniști din patru țări au venit la Budapesta pentru conferința de închidere

The REVIS project – Responding to violence among children (in schools and similar contexts) – which has been going on for more than two years, is coming to an end. The final two-day conference took place on 8 and 9 March in Budapest, organized by the project coordinator, Terre des hommes Hungary. This regional conference, at which all four participating countries were represented - Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Serbia - was a thematic advocacy event on the topic of violence in schools, where the young people involved in the project played an active role alongside the practitioners.

On the first day of the conference, the participating delegations got acquainted, discussed the main experiences and lessons learned during the implementation of the project, and then finalized their interventions for the plenary conference the next day, reflecting together on the key messages they intended to send to the general public. 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 good Hungarian practice of combating violence in schools, called the Békés Iskolák (Peaceful Schools) program. Education professionals from the four countries took part in a roundtable to learn more about Terre des hommes' activities, its work on children's participation and to exchange experiences on the current state of education and the responses to school violence at national level.

On the conference's plenary day, 9 March, participants listened to a presentation by a Member of the Staff of the European Commission on the EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child and the functioning of the European Eurochild network. Later in the day, the young people, together with their teachers, shared with the public their experiences from the REVIS project. They then presented the important results and impact achieved in the schools involved in the four countries, as well as the various methods and campaigns they had developed and implemented to combat violence in schools. The audience listened to several creative presentations from each country, some of which included a short film or even a musical composition. To end the day, the young people shared with the public the promotional messages chosen to combat violence in schools and received responses and reflections from experts from their countries.

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