Gen Z Academy
After the end of the first 'season' of the Gen Z Academy powered by A1, an educational and entertaining project that launched in cooperation with the Centre for a Safer Internet and A1 Croatia, the second one is on the way!
In the first year of the Gen Z Academy, ten schools were visited all over Croatia, talked and advised and answered the questions of more than 500 school children in those same schools, with the same goal - to bring the first Gen Z Academy to as many young people as possible who need it the most! Workshops were held on social networks and the blog, and all posts reached more than 3,120,000 people in total.
- Country: Croatia.
- Languages: Croatian.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
- Additional notes: the exact dates and schedule for the school are being worked out.
Quiz on fraud, fake images & false information
Which sources and websites are trustworthy? How can you check a video and identify internet traps?
Test your knowledge with this quiz!
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
- Additional notes: Read the evaluation report here.
Vinz et Lou - Internet: True or False
A game by the French Safer Internet Centre to teach the family how to properly search for and verify information on the internet.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.
Campaign and video series "You are what you are doing on the internet"
Videos aim to raise awareness among children and youngsters how their online activities can influence them. To encourage young people to think about their online behaviour on social media and how it can affect their life now and in the future six short videos where created by Latvian SIC together with the involvement of representatives of the Youth Panel, talented copywriter Reinis Piziks and popular Latvian influencers @niklavs Niklavs and @edgarfrsh EdgarFresh (their online names).
The following videos were developed:
1. Be balanced.
2. Respect others online.
3. We are prettier, smarter, more muscular and braver on the Internet.
4. Everything you do may come back to you.
5. Don't be too overwhelmed with using internet, no one has ever got to the bottom of the internet.
6. You can hide from the world being online, but you can also hide from the internet in the real world.
- Country: Latvia.
- Languages: Latvian.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Series Alenka v říši GIFů
popular educational programme for children on public television Czech Television on topics such as artificial intelligence, gamification, nano-science, internet safety, digital detox, digital identity or disinformation.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Smart with a heart
This new series of 6 interactive videos by BEE SECURE is designed for families, teachers, and educators working with children aged 6 to 9. It provides a fun way to teach children six key messages about online safety, and it is strongly recommended that children watch these videos with an adult to foster constructive discussions.
- Country: Luxembourg.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators.
- Additional notes: Adapted from this resource from the UK Safer Internet Centre
Ars Electronica Festival
The next Ars Electronica Festival will take place from September 3rd to 7th, 2025 in Linz, Austria. Find out first-hand how new technologies are changing our lives. Experience for yourself how machine learning, VR, robotics or biotech can contribute to socially and ecologically sustainable progress. Discuss on an equal footing what rights and responsibilities we should have as digital citizens. Meet people from all over the world who want to help shape our future in a critical but optimistic way. Ars Electronica stands for all of this. We look forward to you joining us!
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators.
Keep your space safe
BEE SECURE experts present you lifehacks , i.e. smart methods or practices aimed at protecting your devices and data against online threats.
- Country: Luxembourg.
- Languages: Luxembourgish, French.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
Media Literacy Weeks in the Czech Republic
Media Literacy Weeks is an annual event organised by the One World in Schools department (JSNS) of People in Need; JSNS is part of the Safer Internet Centre in the Czech Republic. The aim of this event is to develop media literacy and strengthen the critical thinking skills of primary and secondary school pupils and students across the Czech Republic. two weeks packed with a media education fair, debates for students with journalists, teacher and public education events, library engagement and a public communication campaign
Last year, during May and June, Media Literacy Weeks took place for the seventh time and involved over 150 Czech schools in 84 cities, together counting more than 4,000 pupils and students. Activities included 67 debates at schools, 18 excursions to media houses, 17 demonstration lessons, project days at secondary vocational schools, and apprenticeships.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
HTML Heroes
HTML Heroes aims to teach pupils the importance of digital citizenship and online safety with the help of the HTML Heroes. A range of lessons explore themes such as being safe online, finding reliable information, privacy, chatting, playing and learning online.
- Country: Ireland.
- Languages: English, Irish.
- Target audience: Children and young people, Teachers and educators
School for responsible influencing
Digital platform with online lectures followed by a knowledge test. It is intended for content creators but also for everyone else interested in the topic of child protection on the Internet and media literacy. The goal of this online school is to make influencers and content creators aware of the importance of responsible behaviour in the online world, to raise awareness of the importance of recognising and reporting inappropriate content on the internet, as well as how to report it, and to recognise the importance of creating positive online content and creating a positive impact.
It is intended for influencers and content creators who are followed by the population of children and young people, but also for all those who are willing to hear and learn something new and be part of change and #responsibleinfluencing.
The School of Responsible Influencing is a digital platform through which registered participants will have the opportunity to listen to six educational modules on the topic of internet security, and each module is followed by a knowledge check made up of 5-10 questions related to the module listened to.
- Country: Croatia.
- Languages: Croatian.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
“Szkola z klasa” - School with class
Comprehensive school development programme that has been operating in Poland since 2002. School with Class runs educational programmes for schools, headteachers, and teachers, helping them to introduce new ways of working that go beyond usual practices in teaching and in school relations. They organise free training, courses and webinars, and prepare ready-made lesson scenarios, educational materials, publications and guides. The School with Class Foundation was founded in 2015 in Warsaw and is a spin-off from a large and very successful nationwide initial educational programme. The Foundation has already collaborated with over 9,500 schools, 150,000 teachers and over a million students. Each year it works with a vast network of schools (over 2,500 a year) both around Poland and abroad.
- Country: Poland.
- Languages: Polish, English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
Linka bezpečí
Czech helpline.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Linka důvěry Dětského krizového centra
Children's crisis centre helpline.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.
What the future wants
"What The Future Wants" is a creative, playful, youth-focused initiative by Tactical Tech designed to empower young people to shape the digital world they want to live in. Through visually engaging and captivating educational interventions and resources co-created with youth and educators, we foster spaces for conversations about how technology impacts our lives—from the individual to the societal and planetary levels. Moreover, we aim to build educators' capacity to lead initiatives that cultivate a sense of agency among youth in responding to the challenges of growing up in a tech-driven world.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Ukrainian , English, Croatian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Instagram profile @no_net_drama
communication channel on cybersecurity and media literacy specifically for GenZ on Instagram.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Be MediaSmartOnline: guide to media literacy initiatives in Europe
Based on the extensive and resourceful materials collected in the mapping exercise of the EU media literacy landscape, and on the consultation of the network of Safer Internet Centres all across Europe, this guide collects together the many media literacy programmes, actions, trainings, campaigns and other initiatives currently available across Europe. Currently, it features over 120 entries!