The alarming phenomenon of bullying in schools was in focus of a two-day conference organized by Greek non-profit voluntary Organization “The Smile of the Child” under the auspices of the Greek Presidency of EU Council. According to the socking results following a research in six European countries, among which Greece as well, 1 out of 3 pupils have been experiencing some kind of school bullying and 1 out of 2 have witnessed such incident. As Dan Olvious, professor at Bergen University, Norway, observed, “85-90% of students that are subjected to Internet bullying are also subjected to traditional types of bullying”. Greece is ranked forth in school bullying ratings with a percentage of 31,98%. Lithuania demonstrates 51,65%, followed by Estonia 50,20% and Bulgaria with 34,66%. Latvia rates 25,21% and Italy 15,09%. Nearly 500 cases of school bullying were reported at "The Smile of the Child", last year.
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou