3 turnkey sessions by the French Safer Internet Centre to address the challenges of the digital life of a young middle school student.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
The interactive “#Welcome 6th Grade” course by the French Safer Internet Centre makes it easy to run three workshops from 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes with 6th grade students on the main issues of digital education when entering middle school: Balancing your screen time, Managing your digital identity, Preventing cyberbullying.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
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.
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.
Connected has been specifically designed by Webwise for teachers of the Junior Cycle Digital Media Literacy Short Course who wish to explore online wellbeing, news, information and problems of false information, big data and the data economy, and online rights. Connected aims to empower young people to be effective, autonomous and safe users of technology and online media.
- Country: Ireland.
- Languages: English, Irish.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
The educational platform of Czech Television, contains many videos and worksheets focused on media literacy. The platform is particularly suitable for schools and offers materials that cover not only media education but also, for example, misinformation and critical evaluation of news.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
Published by the Cyber Security Centre and also published in book form. Educational website for children, youth, and teachers.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
Cyber Prevention Catalogue by Národní pedagogický institut (The National Institute of Education's): Digikoalice - lists all verified cyber prevention and education organisations and their materials and programmes in the Czech Republic.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
Guides, materials and resources by Tactical Tech to engage people in conversation about how to improve their digital lives and how they can take control of their privacy, security, and wellbeing. The Data Detox Kit is a simple, accessible toolkit available in physical and a digital version that walks you through the steps, you can take towards a more in-control online self. It takes a holistic approach, going through the different aspects of your digital life, from the amount of time you spend on your phone to the apps that you use to the passwords you set.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Catalan, Ukrainian.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
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.
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.
The workbook by the Latvian Safer Internet Centre is for children aged 10 to 15 and aims at strengthening media literacy and enhancing digital competence and also children’s ability to effectively use digital technologies and communication tools to find, evaluate, use, and create information.
This workbook is a valuable resource for schools, encouraging students to take steps towards improving their media literacy and digital skills. It contains engaging tasks and exercises that can be integrated into various school subjects, providing flexibility for educators to integrate into their school lessons and different subjects, enriching the learning experience across the curriculum.
- Country: Latvia.
- Languages: Latvian.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Since 2016, Digitaler Kompass is committed to increasing media literacy in Austria and Europe as a non-profit organisation. To this end, they work at the interface of pedagogy, scientific research and journalism within and outside the education system. One focus of their work is to provide further education, particularly to economically and socially disadvantaged young people. They offer workshops, e-learning materials and webinars for schools and educational organisations.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
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.
Doublecheck is a captivating game by Tactical Tech to help you see if you can spot visual dis- and misinformation.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: Danish, Dutch, English, Italian, French, German, Greek, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.
Everything You Need to Know About Video Games" is an educational resource designed to help parents and professionals understand the impact of video games on children and promote safe online behaviour. By providing clear and concise information, this publication empowers parents to make informed decisions about their children's gaming habits. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the world of video games, covering a wide range of topics, from the different genres and motivations for playing to the potential positive and negative impacts. It addresses important issues such as deviant behaviour, gaming disorder, and the role of adults in setting boundaries within gaming.
The publication offers practical guidance on topics like PEGI ratings, esports, and sexual abuse in online games, empowering adults to have informed conversations with children about their gaming habits, as well as providing them with guidelines for discussion. Ultimately, this publication aims to provide a valuable resource for parents and professionals, enabling them to support children in enjoying video games responsibly and harnessing their potential benefits.
- Country: Croatia.
- Languages: Croatian, English.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators
Fake news, but also rumors or other horror reports are deliberately spread in order to create uncertainty or to create a mood for or against certain groups or topic are extremely difficult to recognise. To counteract this fact, Saferinternet.at has created a "Fake News Bingo" to help recognise fake news in a fun way. It is helpful for everyone who is logged on to social networks - whether parents, young people or teachers.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators, children and young people.
Turnkey workshop sheet by the French Safer Internet Centre for running an information decoding workshop in middle school
- Country: France.
- Languages: French.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers.
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.
Published on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2023, this brochure by ISPA.at is intended to help internet users to expose fake news for what it is. The ISPA brochure explains how fake news works and how it tries to attract readers' attention, for example, by using keywords such as "shocking" and "scandal", time references that make it seem current such as "yesterday" or "last Wednesday", or alleged sources such as "a former employee". In short and compact tips, ISPA shows ways in which users can question the accuracy of online reports. For example, the question of whether images have been taken out of context or older images have been reused can be quickly resolved using reverse image search. Image metadata can also be queried, which provides information about the origin and time of capture of an image. So-called "hoax" databases document and expose fake news; a look at one of these can reveal a report as a recycled fake news story, for example.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators
Book on online security for children.
- Country: Czech Republic.
- Languages: Czech.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
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
This is a publication by the Polish Safer Internet Centre for young people which discusses several aspects of responsible information publishing and online image.
- Country: Poland.
- Languages: Polish.
- Target audience: Children and young people
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.
Create and host Media and Information Literacy sessions using turnkey courses. Find quizzes and interactive images to help you understand everything about information. Made by the French Safer Internet Centre.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French, English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
The Slovenian SIC has prepared a leaflet for parents about inappropriate and harmful content online for children. This leaflet is made available online through the Safe.si website and is also being disseminated through various social networking sites, such as Facebook and Instagram. This leaflet can also contribute to a greater media literacy of parents.
- Country: Slovenia.
- Languages: Slovenian
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers.
Guide for educators and students. Media literacy can be strengthened in a variety of ways. Each teacher chooses the most useful methods and methodological techniques for the specific situation. It is important to remember that in order to strengthen media literacy, it is not enough to just talk about it; it is necessary to create a practical, active learning process based on the involvement and active participation of students, and it should be related to their lives. In our opinion, the “Learning Menu” method helps successfully achieve this goal. This tool has been developed for eight topics covered in the lesson modules and serves as a great continuation of the teacher's work with students who have completed the lesson modules (both those prepared for younger students aged 11-13 and older students aged 14-17).
- Country: Poland.
- Languages: Polish, Latvian, Romanian, English, Ukrainian.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
More and more often we hear the terms disinformation, propaganda, manipulative interpretation of facts, conspiracy myths.This material focuses on conspiracy myths, providing an understanding of why they exist, why some people believe in them and how they influence individual and societal beliefs.
With this material by the Latvian Safer Internet Centre, we will strengthen students' knowledge of the structure and geography of the world, their understanding of what science and facts are, and improve their media literacy and information literacy - knowledge and critical thinking are the surest way to being able to distinguish between scientifically proven facts and conspiracy myths!
- Country: Latvia.
- Languages: Latvian.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
Lie Detectors is an independent media literacy organisation working in various countries in Europe. Lie Detectors runs a programme where trained journalists provide workshops and resources to help students critically analyse media content and identify misleading information. In 2017-2022, Lie Detectors visited 2,350 classrooms, and trained 1,650 teachers (46,900 pupils aged 10 to 15) in 5 countries (Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland).
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English, French, German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
Would you like to try out Mediamanual (AT) tasks for building and deepening media skills? The workbook for secondary school levels I and II describes what students should know and be able to do in the area of media education.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
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.
The Media Kindergarten (MeKi) is an information portal of the Vienna Education Server to support media educational activities in the elementary school sector.
Here you will find information on the topic of media education in kindergarten as well as practical ideas and tips on how the topic can be implemented in everyday kindergarten life.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
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"
Belgian educational initiative of Mediawijs, Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia, WeMedia, Media.21, VRT NWS and MeeMoo, with the support of the Flemish Government. It is aimed at pupils from the third grade of primary education, and focuses on news and information literacy. The initiative helps teachers to integrate news and current affairs into their lessons through a wide range of news media and teaching materials, and encourages children and young people to deal with news not just critically and consciously, but also actively and creatively.
- Country: Belgium.
- Languages: Dutch.
- Target audience: Children and young people, teachers and educators.
The project is currently in development, but the website is already available, and it gathers all free educational material about every thing digital in a Danish context , and the seven principles for media literacy. The project is funded by the Ministry for Children and Education, and is funded until the summer of 2026. The partnership in ON consists of: Center for Digital Youth Care (helpline in SIC DK), Save the Children Denmark (hotline in SIC DK), The Media Council for Children and young People (Awareness centre and coordinator) and Children’s Welfare (which is a Danish Child’s rights organisation).
- Country: Denmark.
- Languages: Danish.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators. The target audience is wide from 6-25 years old, secondary the professionals working with them, and parents as well.
- Additional notes: Link for education material collection.
As part of SID 2023 celebrations Safe.si has prepared a poster for primary school pupils with some tips on what to do if they come across content online that makes them feel uncomfortable. Around 3,000 copies of the poster were distributed to postal addresses of all Slovenian primary schools for hanging on the walls within school premises. The online version of the poster is also available online.
- Country: Slovenia.
- Languages: Slovenian.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
This pamphlet is designed to help adults recognise, understand, and combat the spread of fake news in today's digital landscape. With clear explanations and practical advice, it serves as a quick and informative guide for anyone looking to improve their media literacy.
- Country: Greece.
- Languages: Greek.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers.
Which sources and websites are trustworthy? How can you check a video and identify internet traps?
Test your knowledge with this quiz! This quiz on misinformation, tailored for middle and high school students, is designed to assess their understanding of online misinformation and their ability to identify and combat it. Created by the Greek Safer Internet Centre.
- Country: Greece.
- Languages: Greek.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
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.
Target group: 10 to 14 year olds
Topic: Fake news
Duration: one lesson (approx. 45 minutes)
Prerequisite: Computer or tablet/computer room, paper and pens for notes
Subject: suitable for any subject
Cost: free
Learning objective: Recognising false information on the Iinternet, source criticism, research & information literacy.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
Digital kit + paper activity by the French Safer Internet Centre: learn to sort out truth from falsehood online, in primary school.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
Developed in cooperation with the major internet service provider in Latvia, TET. Together with Drossinternets.lv and other cooperation partners, Tet implements the social initiative "Tet school for children" with the slogan: "When you use the Internet, remember about safety!", which helps 4-7-year-old children learn about safe and responsible use of the Internet , in the process also involving children's parents and teachers. As part of the campaign, educational resources have been developed under the name "Richies Roo and the internet" - videos, creative tasks and material for educators .
- Country: Latvia.
- Languages: Latvian.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
The poster and leaflet were created for the purposes of the Sharenting Campaign in November 2023. Our primary objective is to engage with as many parents as possible. In November 2023, both the supreme version of the poster and a billboard variant were deployed during a 14-day campaign across various Slovenian municipalities. These posters were strategically placed near shopping centres, bus/train stations, and at city entrances from the highway. We estimate that the campaign successfully reached over 100,000 individuals. Approximately 2,000 copies of the poster were also distributed to the postal addresses of all Slovenian kindergartens, public libraries, and Centres for Social Work. 2023. The printed version of the leaflet is disseminated at the trainings for parents that the centre organises in schools and through other events where this target group is present. The online version has been already be disseminated via Safe.si website as well as through social networking sites, such as Facebook and Instagram.
- Country: Slovenia.
- Languages: Slovenian.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers.
Reliable source, Spreading lies, and Fake news.
Series of posters for teens developed by the Greek Safer Internet Centre.
- Country: Greece.
- Languages: Greek.
- Target audience: Children and young people.
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.
An interactive exhibition on data and privacy that provides different ways of understanding how technologies and data are changing our lives. The Glass Room is a public intervention by Tactical Tech that provides an interactive, fun, and challenging experience, bringing to life the most pressing challenges facing people and the tech industry today. As technology reaches a global scale and becomes embedded in every part of our lives and our environments, The Glass Room examines its impacts and helps visitors explore practical solutions to mitigate them. The Glass Room is currently available in three formats: the Misinformation Edition explores how social media and the web have changed the way we read information and react to it; the Community Edition is a smaller, more portable version and adaptable format; the Glass Room Plus is a curated exhibition that can be set up at large cultural events in Europe.
- Country: Multiple.
- Languages: English.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
This thematic fact sheet by BEE SECURE (Luxembourg) first aims to explain the term "pornography," provide an overview of its consumption by young people and children, and address the following questions: what are the motives for consumption? Is it solely for sexual education, or does it fulfil a sexual need? What are the risks associated with pornography consumption?
- Country: Luxembourg.
- Languages: German, French.
- Target audience: Parents and caregivers, Teachers and educators.
Created by the Wiener Bildungsserver, the conspiracy myth generator allows you to select two topics, and a villain, and it will generate a conspiracy myth combining the three. You will be surprised to see how close some of these randomly-generated conspiracies are to actual conspiracy theories out there!
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers, teachers and educators.
A game by the French Safer Internet Centre to decipher information and sort out truth from falsehood on the internet. General objectives: adopt responsible behaviour, show discernment and develop critical thinking.
- Country: France.
- Languages: French.
- Target audience: Children and young people, parents and caregivers.
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.
The teaching material “True or false on the Internet? Information literacy in the digital world” by the Austrian Safer Internet Centre supports teachers in teaching these important skills in class.
- Country: Austria.
- Languages: German.
- Target audience: Teachers and educators.
"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.
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.
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!