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With this project the Bullying-Free School Foundation aims to support the valuing of human rights, equal treatment and related practices via bullying prevention in Estonian schools. To achieve the goal, the project includes three mutually supportive courses of action - 1) bringing and disseminating expert knowledge and best practices related to the prevention of bullying of minorities (LGBT+, national minorities, refugees) and cyberbullying to Estonia, 2) promoting bullying-free education with the help of a web-based teacher trainings, and 3) supporting the reduction of bullying in Russian-language instruction and language immersion schools by inviting them to adopt the research and evidence-based KiVa program. The project helps to make anti-bullying know-how more accessible to teachers and specialists by enabling the development of web content, materials and e-trainings in Estonian and Russian language. Targeted communication will be carried out in the direction of school administrators and school personnel about the need for evidence-based prevention of bullying and the possibility of the continued expansion of the KiVa program into Estonian schools. The main target groups of the project are school administrators (local government, state officials), school principals, teachers and support specialists from schools teaching in Estonian and as well in Russian language. During the project, a training website with content that supports bullying-free education will be developed and launched in both Estonian and Russian languages (on site www.kiusamisvaba.ee), and in 2024 at least 5 new Russian-language and/or language immersion schools will be joining the KiVa program.