• In their “equal to equal” project, DUT information communication students from IUT Robert-Schuman at the University of Strasbourg used TikTok or Instagram to fight against bullying and cyberbullying at school.

  • On social networks, they offer college or high school students solutions to find help, "to talk about it", to dare to tackle the issue "head-on" with your parents and not to be left alone in the face of harassment.

Harassment and cyberstalking have become as widespread this year as the coronavirus epidemic. Last year alone, the e-Enfance association recorded a 57% increase in cyberviolence on its Net Ecoute helpline, a platform for protecting minors on the Internet and helping digital parenting. As feared, this increase in cases testifies to the violence present on the web and which particularly affects the youngest, college students, "always on their cell phone". Finding out about cyberstalking, which has more than doubled in a year, is also noticing a certain powerlessness on the part of all the stakeholders (family, National Education, passive witness) but also getting them to better identify their own profile: victim, stalker, follower, passive witness,witness engaged in harassment cases.

It is from this sad reality that DUT information communication students from the Robert-Schuman IUT of the University of Strasbourg have worked on a project called “equal to equal” for high school students from the academy.

An educational project to fight against bullying and school cyberbullying as part of a competition between several French universities.

The final between the four qualified projects is scheduled for June 25, but the importance is not there for the students.

A need for information and listening

After a round table with their project manager, Professor Martial Libera


As an HDR lecturer in contemporary history, the group of students once again observed that there were several in their own group to have the costs incurred during their schooling. They then took up this question with questionnaires distributed online, in partnership with elected representatives of the Academic Council for High School Life at the Strasbourg Academy, the students of Illkirch. Objective, "to take stock, put words into action, identify harassment, know the penalties incurred, raise awareness and inform" jointly explain Maëlys Ziani-Nadal and Alice Daniel, two of the students of the project. “We realized how harassed people don't know who to turn to.We had to give them all the numbers we had and they were really keen. Sometimes they don't even know the essential numbers. "

Our file on cyberbullying

Through TikTok videos, or an Instagram account, Harc'helpers, the students offered solutions to find help, "to talk about it", to dare to tackle the issue "head-on" with their parents and not to be left alone. in the face of harassment.

"We have had a lot of feedback on the lack of listening, the involvement of teachers, teaching teams, administrative staff" remarked the students.

So there is still a long way to go to stem this scourge, even if, as Ziani-Nadal and Alice Daniel point out, "everyone can and must act, in their own way and on their own scale".

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  • Social networks

  • Violence

  • School harassment

  • Cyber ​​harassment

  • Internet

  • Teenager

  • Strasbourg