ScienceView | ENABLE

The ENABLE public launch will take place in Athens on 11-12 March 2015 and will bring together 50-60 policy makers, experts, academics and health professionals from around the globe, the aim being to introduce the project, provide a forum of discussion for the Think Tank members and create solidarity as the project continues.

ENABLE is an EU-funded project to combat bullying and contribute to the wellbeing of young people through their social and emotional development. This event aims to create opportunities to analyse and compare major anti-bullying approaches from across the world and investigate links between bullying, new communication processes and social and emotional literacy.

Six core partners based in five different countries across the European Union are collaborating on the ENABLE project: the Centre for Digitale Paedagogik (Denmark); the Princess Diana Awards (UK); the South West Grid for Learning (UK); Partners in Learning (Croatia); For Adolescent Health (Greece) and European Schoolnet (Belgium). The project is being implemented with associate partners: Ask.fm, Facebook, Twitter and Vodafone and it is certain that industry will play an important role in ENABLE, by providing insight, funding and resources and through improved dissemination capacity throughout all phases of the project.

The Think Tank will also play a crucial role in the project by acting as an advisory body, peer reviewing research papers put forward by guest researchers, and generally ensuring that the project builds a comprehensive compendium of data sheets on tested anti-bullying approaches. The fact that many of the researchers participating in the Think Tank are already well known in their field will, moreover, be an added means of attracting public attention and hence improving the outreach of the project.