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Stay up to date with the latest opportunities, challenges and initiatives for keeping children and young people safe online, on national, European and global levels.

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Stay up to date with the latest opportunities, challenges and initiatives for keeping children and young people safe online, on national, European and global levels.

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Logo of the INHOPE annual review featuring a person writing on a piece of paper.
  • news
  • INHOPE
  • 24 June 2022

Sitting behind INHOPE’s annual review are the various processes taken to ensure that it represents the amazing work of the network’s 50 hotlines in 46 countries which work to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.
In the spotlight
  • news
  • BIK Team
  • 24 June 2022

As part of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Quality Assurance Programme (QAP), the Insafe-INHOPE Coordination Teams are jointly conducting a set of fourteen country visits to national Safer Internet Centres (SICs) to better understand what is happening in the Member States: monitoring emerging issues and challenges, identifying good practices to be shared, and harvesting the results of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) policy. Even though the COVID-19 related safety measures are getting lighter across Europe, it was still agreed by both parties that the visit to the Czech SIC would be carried out as an online meeting, which took place on 17 March 2022.
A group of three children looking at a smartphone and smiling
  • news
  • BIK Team
  • 24 June 2022

The Insafe network of helplines collects data about the types of calls received and this is analysed every three months to look at trends, and new and emerging issues.
Official logo of the 2022 Digital Assembly in Toulouse, France
  • news
  • BIK Team
  • 20 June 2022

The Digital Assembly takes place this week in Toulouse, France. The conference will span two days and will include workshops, panel discussions and plenary sessions focusing on issues related to EU sovereignty and autonomy. As part of the programme, a workshop will focus on the newly adopted European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+).
Girl looking at smartphone in a classroom
  • news
  • BIK Team
  • 20 June 2022

The whole world is shocked by Russia's attack on Ukraine and the ongoing war. What stuns adults is even more difficult for children and young people to comprehend, but it is hardly possible to keep children away from the current news and exposure to dreadful images and videos. Parents and educators face the difficult task of finding age-appropriate ways of explaining what is happening and answering questions children might have, while at the same time protecting them from harmful media experiences.
Group of people discussing cheerfully around a table with laptop
  • editorial
  • BIK Team
  • 15 June 2022

Today, 15 June 2022, the Insafe network of European Safer Internet Centres (SICs) begins a two-day training meeting online. It provides an opportunity to facilitate sharing of experience and good practice between network countries, and to explore areas of common ground and occasions for closer working between awareness raising, helpline, and youth participation strands.
Logo of All Digital Weeks in Lithuania
  • news
  • Lithuanian Safer Internet Centre
  • 13 June 2022

To help people of all ages striving for the best digital knowledge, the Lithuanian Safer Internet Centre (SIC) consortium partner Langas į ateitį coordinated All Digital Week(s) in Lithuania. All Digital Week is an annual European campaign running since 2010 to improve digital skills in several European countries. This year in Lithuania, the campaign expanded from one to five weeks from 14 March to 14 April 2022.
BIK Youth participation INHOPE webinar
  • youth voice
  • BIK Team
  • 13 June 2022

The INHOPE network, a global network that fights child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online, organised a webinar on proactive versus reactive hotline communication on 1 June 2022. Two senior BIK Youth Ambassadors, João Pedro Martins (Portugal) and Kathrin Morasch (Germany), were asked to share their opinions on campaigns that aim to reach young people.
Young boy facing a desktop computer watching an online class
  • news
  • Belgian Safer Internet Centre
  • 10 June 2022

Some people have difficulties getting on the digital train. They have little or no access to digital media, are frequently confronted in their environment with an attitude of avoidance or negativity towards digital media, and lack knowledge about these media, all of which deprive them of the right to participate fully in the digital society.
Young child pointing at open laptop in front of him
  • news
  • Belgian Safer Internet Centre
  • 09 June 2022

Protecting your privacy means above all not sharing too much information. Many young people on social media still tend to publish private information on their profiles, for example the name and address of their school or their phone number. But nowadays, privacy and personal data protection are two essential elements. How can young people be educated about protecting their privacy online?
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