Project:

VISIONARY:
A European Internet Portal on Violence Prevention in School

VISIONARY is an International collaborative project on violence prevention in schools, addressing teachers, pupils, parents and experts.

BACKGROUND:
Violence in school, juvenile violence and crime have been among the major topics in our countries - Denmark, Finland, Germany, Portugal and the UK - in recent years. Though not as dramatic as presented in the media, the amount of violence has been rising constantly in the last few years and has wide-ranging effects on our society.
In all our countries we have a huge and constantly growing number of approaches, materials, web sites, mailing lists etc. focusing on violence and violence prevention. So, one large current problem is not a lack but rather an "oversupply" of approaches that makes orientation difficult and sometimes discourages practitioners.

TASKS:
In the VISIONARY project we have not developing new concepts or approaches on violence in schools. Rather, we have collected and structured information that we have found on the Internet and provided a platform which facilitated the search for information.
Furthermore our web site aimed at networking our users - teachers, parents, pupils, experts and anyone searching for information about violence in schools - at a national and international level.

THE PROJECT:
VISIONARY is an acronym for "Violence in school - intelligence on the net - applying resources for youngsters". The development of the web site has been supported by SOCRATES / MINERVA, a programme of the European Commission.
The VISIONARY team consisted of more than 20 people from five countries - Germany (project co-ordination), Denmark, Finland, Portugal and the UK. We have been a team of psychologists, pedagogic experts, teacher trainers and technicians. All of us have either expertise in the field of violence in schools and/or new technologies.

SUBSEQUENT PROJECT:
Later on a subsequent project has been implemented. The "VISIONARIES-NET" project - a cooperation of experts from Germany, France, Spain and Romania - has brought together persons engaged in violence prevention in school and aims to making them learn from one another. This has been realised by conducting online conferences with experts and practitioners as well as by initiating the formation of an International online community on violence prevention in schools that builds on the VISIONARY portal, the precursor project of the project.

European Commission, SOCRATES / MINERVA

Sponsored developing time 2000-2003

• Centre for Educational Reseach, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
  Thomas Jäger (project-coordination)
  Reinhold S. Jäger
  Lars Balzer
  Antje Lind
  Urban Lissmann
  André Pilatus

• Vordingborg Seminarium, Denmark, today University College Sealand, Denmark
  Ole Thomsen
  Flemming Runing
  Gert Fosgerau
  Jan Olsen
  Malene Rasmussen

• Centre for Ethnic Studies, University of Joensuu, Finland
  Robert Arpo
  Lea Kervinen
  Pirkko Pitkänen
  Päivi Atjonen

• Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  Joao Amado
  Isabel Freire
  Fernando Costa
  Paulo Goncalves
  Filomena Marques

• Learning Technology Research Institute, University of North London, United Kingdom
  Andrew Ravenscroft
  Claire Bradley
  Mike Davis
  Anna Hutchinson
  Janice Smith

• International project site (http://www.bullying-in-school.info is not online any more)

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