Verbal Aggression in the Action Field School: Causes, Manifestations, Violence Prevention Project duration (14.03.2018 – 13.09..2019) The basis of the scientific and communication actions is a FWF scientific project: “Verbal Aggression and Social Variables of Gender – Age – Social status” (Elise Richter - Program, 1.07.2012 – 31.01.2017). The project “Verbal Aggression in the Action Field School” aims at transferring scientific know-how, learnt by me over two decades of research in the field of verbal aggression, to pupils as a strategic group in order to 1) evoke their interest to science, 2) reveal practical relevance of research for them, 3 ) concentrate their attention on violent aspects of communication, 4) help them identify and reveal aspects of the nonviolent expression of emotions, productive strategies in controlling emotions in everyday relations and 5) to contribute to positive social climate in the action field school. The project that along with the priority group is also targeted at teaching staff, provides a number of activities to research and to prevent (verbal) violence in Viennese schools for 2017/2018 and 2018/2019: - Meeting with the pupils (2 hours, about 1 month before the workshops): introduction to the topic, presentation of data collection, systematization and analysis methods, choice of topics and formation of working groups, who are researching on these topics over the next time until the workshop. - Interactive workshops “Verbal Aggression in the Action Field School” for school pupils (10 - 17 years old, two groups: 10 - 13 and 14 - 17 years old); Types of schools: APS (Neue Mittelschule, Wiener Mittelschule), AHS (Gymnasium, Realgymnasium). Duration: 2 hours. On the basis of the research conducted by the pupils, causes, forms and functions, perception and reactions to verbal-aggressive speech acts are discussed and possibilities of nonviolent emotional communication are discussed too. - Workshops: for teachers; for school psychologist. - Public presentation of the project and its results. The topicality of the planned scientific and communication events corresponds to current national strategy, aimed at preventing violence in schools. The project is aimed primarily at showing the pupils verbal violence as an independent form of violence and sensibilizing the pupils, that speech actions can traumatize the same as physical ones. At the same time pupils learn that language may prompt escalation, as well as de-escalation and resolving conflict situations, and that expression of negative emotions is a part of communication, as well as to express the negative emotions without using the verbal-aggressive speech acts.