Better Internet for Kids

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The Latvian Safer Internet Centre has developed educational games to strengthen media literacy and digital literacy among children and young people. The kit consists of six games and each of them focuses on a different aspect of media literacy and digital literacy offering 30 cards with images,30 cards with texts, game descriptions, questions, exercises etc. The titles and topics are the following:

1.    Observe, analyse and act!
2.    Play and think critically!
3.    Read, understand and comment!
4.    Know, don't guess!
5.    Speak the language of technology!
6.    Be safe online!

• Country: Latvia.
• Languages: Latvian.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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The BuPP tests and recommends digital games for children and young people. They help parents to select good computer, console and mobile games and support them with tips and background information on the topic of "digital games". Workshops and advice for parents and educators round out the offer. The "BuPP - Federal Office for the Positive Rating of Digital Games" is a service of the Austrian Federal Chancellery.

• Country: Austria.
• Languages: German.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers.

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Charles University, as the main coordinator of CEDMO (Central European Digital Media Observatory, covering Czechia, Poland, and Slovakia) announced a long-term partnership with Google to expand research on information disruption and the impact of AI applications in the digital media ecosystem, as well as to strengthen media and digital skills in the region. Google also promised to support Ukraine media literacy’s effort including fact-checking efforts in the region.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech, English, Polish, Slovak.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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BEE SECURE in collaboration with Base 1 Makerspace offers an engaging, interactive escape game to raise awareness among young people about protecting personal data, particularly in the digital world.

• Country: Luxembourg.
• Languages: Luxembourgish, French, English, German.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.

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Cyber Prevention Catalogue by Národní pedagogický institut (The National Institute of Education's): Digikoalice - lists all verified cyber prevention and education organisations + their materials and program

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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Demagog.cz checks the veracity of Czech politicians' claims and popular content on social networks.  We are looking for trusted sources that everyone can check. We have transparent procedures and finances.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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A board game for educators, parents, youth (14+). Game helps to discover the world of media education and check if players can recognise fake content on the internet, spot disinformation and protect themselfs from cyber attacks. Game can be used both at home and in the classroom. It is excellent educational fun for young people, students, teachers and parents.

• Country: Poland.
• Languages: Polish, Latvian, Romanian, Ukrainian.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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A project by the Ministry of Culture and implemented by public libraries. A training programme on media and information literacy for local communities. Topics vary from disinformation, copyrights, online safety etc. 

• Country: Lithuania.
• Languages: Lithuanian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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In this interactive experience by the LEGO Group, children join Captain Safety and his hero squad to defeat the ‘gloom’ which comes from how we treat each other or from meanies and scammers. Through fun videos and minigames, this experience will help build up child’s online safety skills.

• Country: Multiple.
• Languages: English, Italian, French, Dutch, German, Ukrainian.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.

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A project to strengthen media literacy of school students, and specifically critical thinking, by providing active representatives of local communities with the knowledge and tools to teach this to their community members. The project focuses in particular on school librarians.

• Country: Lithuania.
• Languages: Lithuanian, English.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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A group of students from Masaryk University developed several escape room games that aims to help its players identify fake news and develop media literacy and critical thinking in a fun environment. Each game is targeted at different groups, including adults. 

• Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia.
• Languages: Czech, English, Slovak.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.

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Genvej - Shortcut to your child's digital life is an offer for parents and carers where they can get help, inspiration and advice to get involved in their child's digital life.

• Country: Denmark.
• Languages: Danish.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers.

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This guide includes a comprehensive set of tips and advice on manage everyone's digital experience and expectations.

• Country: Romania.
• Languages: Romanian.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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How to navigate safely as a family: protecting and educating online is a MOOC for parents, caregivers, guardians, and generally anyone in charge of a young person. It will teach you how to prevent and respond to various online struggles, to prevent negative online situations in your family through parental mediation strategies.

• Country: Spain.
• Languages: Spanish.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers.

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communication channel on cybersecurity and media literacy specifically for GenZ on Instagram.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Children and young people.

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Media Literacy Coalition Bulgaria has worked on a mapping of media literacy projects in Bulgaria. It visualises the data (types of activities, audience, scope, effectiveness, etc.) collected for 182 projects implemented in the last 10 years.

• Country: Bulgaria.
• Languages: Bulgarian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Media for children's rights is an initiative that aims to increase the capacities of the media, journalists and the child protection system to protect the best interests of children in any reporting where children are the protagonists, given the lack of guidelines for the media on reporting crimes related to violence or sexual abuse against children.

• Country: Albania.
• Languages: Albanian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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This award is currently being relaunched and information about it will be published here successively. Projects from previous years are available.

• Country: Austria.
• Languages: German.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers.

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Media Literacy Ireland (MLI) is an informal alliance of individuals and organisations who work together on a mainly voluntary basis to promote media literacy in Ireland. Facilitated by Coimisiún na Meán, MLI has over 250 members drawn from a broad range of sectors.

The vision is for all Irish people to be empowered with the skills and confidence to be able to access and critically evaluate content and services across all platforms, understand and question how media and digital technology operate, identify and manage risks, and participate in the public sphere in a responsible, ethical and effective manner.

• Country: Ireland.
• Languages: English, Irish.
• Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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MLCE – "Media Literacy Case for Educators: Sustainably Scaling Media Literacy in Europe Empowering teachers, educators and librarians across Europe to be innovative, future-fit advocates of Media Literacy", provides teachers, trainers and librarians across Europe with a one-of-a-kind comprehensive set of co-developed and creative tools, resources, methods and materials.

MLCE is co-funded by the European Union project and is coordinated by Tactical Teach, in collaboration with European Schoolnet, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA),  Save the Children (Italy).
The project has three objectives: developing effective methods of media literacy training centred on the needs of educators, creating engaging forms of media literacy engagement, and embedding effective media literacy tools and methods in European societal structures. The end result will be the Media Literacy Case for Educators: Creative Tools for Unpacking Media, which will include a Media Literacy Champions Course.

• Country: Multiple.
• Languages: English, French, German.
• Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
• Additional notes: MOOC "Empowering educators for the next digital decade"

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The National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB) is the central administrative body for cyber security, including the protection of classified information in information and communication systems and cryptographic protection. It is also responsible for the implementation of the public regulated service of the global navigation satellite system under the Galileo programme.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech, English.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.

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In 2014, we founded the Association of Civic Education and Social Science Teachers, zs, and several reasons led us to do so. On the one hand, it was increasing the demands on our subject in the sense that the abilities and skills of our pupils were as good as possible. On the other hand, however, the hourly subsidies for teaching our subject were constantly decreasing. In many schools, we only have one hour a week on the basics of law, financial literacy, acquiring a political orientation, understanding one's own personality, the media and the international situation, because the emphasis is on other subjects. We also perceived the fluctuating level of preparedness of graduates of pedagogical universities, whose studies often do not sufficiently prepare them for the teaching profession. We were troubled by the almost non-existent communication between the teachers of our subject across the Czech Republic and insufficient methodological support in some teaching areas. However, the main reason for the establishment of our Association was something that we encountered in pupils regardless of the type of school they attend - a decrease in civic (self) awareness and the ability to navigate current social events. And because we believe that civic education and social sciences should prepare children for life in the 21st century and lead them to respect moral and legal values, we decided to do something about it. We know that we have to start with ourselves, that is why in the Association we focus on supporting teachers (on knowledge and work methods) and we are looking for ways to support their professional development and open cooperation.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Helpwanted.nl has developed a digital lesson package for teachers (also suitable for digital whiteboard) as a tool for lessons on internet safety. The lesson package consists of three lessons on grooming, sexting and sextortion.

• Country: the Netherlands.
• Languages: Dutch.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Parenting in the digital age explores the relationship between children and digital devices, and provides support to parents and caregivers.

• Country: Romania.
• Languages: English.
• Target audience: Parents and caregivers.

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In 2016, under the name Platform for media education, we founded an informal community of organizations and entities that are active in the field of media education. We formulated common goals that we want to fulfill through joint meetings, projects and speaking at professional forums. Platform Goals support of media education at all levels of formal and informal education connecting existing activities in the field of media education, exchange of experience promoting the importance of media literacy among the professional and lay public

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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Protecting girls and women from gender-based violence in Albania is a programme built based on a human rights approach, providing a professional model of response to gender-based violence and domestic violence against girls and young women.

• Country: Albania.
• Languages: Albanian.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.

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With the winter holidays approaching, this interactive calendar is perfect to count down the days until hashtag Christmas! For children 7-12, it contains 24 exciting topics and tasks related to the digital world, explained by Otto the Robot.

• Country: Estonia.
• Languages: Estonian.
• Target audience: Children and young people.

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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.

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Media literacy project supported under the EC’s ERASMUS+ Programme that developed innovative learning methods to help young people deal with disinformation. The SMILES team was made up of partners from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain who work in libraries, media literacy organisations and research institutes. The SMILES team has prepared a series of activities, materials and tools about disinformation which allows young people aged 12 to 16 to develop their knowledge and skills in recognising and combating fake news and disinformation. According to the evaluation report, over 40 per cent of the pupils in the three countries enjoyed participating in the series of activities. Around 40-50 per cent of the pupils say they will apply what they have learned in practice.

• Country: Multiple.
• Languages: English.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators.
• Additional notes: Read the evaluation report here.

Stay safe online is the anthem of Safer Internet Day in Malta! The anthem is available in English to celebrate throughout the month of February.

• Country: Malta.
• Languages: English.
• Target audience: Children and young people.

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With the help of a mentor, teams are encourage to discuss a variety of topics through provocative, conversation-starting questions.

• Country: Hungary.
• Languages: Hungarian.
• Target audience: Children and young people.

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A digital family game about life online, for children aged 6-9.

• Country: Norway.
• Languages: Norwegian.
• Target audience: Children and young people.

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"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.

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Wikimedia Česká republika recently launched the Media Literacy Portal to support education in this area. The portal is a signpost of information and educational tools that can be used by libraries, schools and the public.

• Country: Czech Republic.
• Languages: Czech.
• Target audience: Teachers and educators, parents and caregivers.

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Zero’s Quest is a narrative puzzle adventure game by the LEGO Group, designed to teach 10 to 12-year-olds the importance of empathy, and how to ‘play well’ online.

• Country: Multiple.
• Languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.
• Target audience: Children and young people.

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Young Journalist Ireland (the new name for what was ‘Press Pass’) is a Student Journalism and News Literacy programme for Transition Year students run by NewsBrands Ireland, the industry body for Ireland’s national news publishers.
Our free school programme gives students the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the media, how it works and who to trust by learning to do journalism themselves. Research shows that if a student knows how good journalism is made, then they are better equipped to interrogate the information that bombards them daily.
Since the programme launched in 2012, approximately 130,000 students have benefited from it. With the full support of the Department of Education, the Young Journalist Ireland programme seeks to improve news literacy and critical thinking skills while helping students to develop a deeper understanding of news media and how it communicates about the world around them.

• Country: Ireland.
• Languages: English, Irish.
• Target audience: Children and young people.