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#MeToo movement in Greece inspires youth panel to influence their peers to #Speak
Following the emergence and successful spread of the #MeToo movement in Greece, the Greek Youth Panel was inspired to create a similar campaign targeted at Greek adults, children, and youth. The #Speak (#Mila) campaign’s purpose is to raise awareness of sexual harassment and cyberbullying and to encourage both victims and witnesses to speak up and break the silence on those issues.
CyberSquad: Never alone, together and stronger online!
CyberSquad is a citizen movement that marks the beginning of an era showing solidarity and positivity for children and youth online. With the support of MolenGeek, Google, and Test Achats, Belgian Safer Internet Centre Child Focus launched the web platform CyberSquad, which is aimed at and elaborated on by teenagers. The goal is to offer a space to share and exchange, where they can find answers and some help related to their online concerns.
Digitalisation and climate: a guide for a more conscious life
The Portuguese Safer Internet Centre, in collaboration with the Portuguese Institute for Sport and Youth (IPDJ), translated and adapted the Austrian guide on “Digitalisation and climate: environmental awareness in the digital world." The aim is to provide "suggestions for a conscious life in the area of tension between digitalisation and climate." The motto of this publication is "Think first, then click'.
Simple ways to address disinformation and foster media literacy in your classroom
The Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Team recently wrote an article for eTwinning, the community for schools in Europe, on how education professionals can tackle disinformation and misinformation and foster media literacy in your classroom. The article is reproduced below, with permission from the eTwinning Team, and available in 29 languages on the eTwinning platform.
Focus on misinformation for Safer Internet Day in Estonia
Each year, the Estonian Safer Internet Centre (SIC) focuses on one topical issue when celebrating Safer Internet Day in Estonia. This year, Safer Internet Day paid particular attention to misinformation, and to this end, the Estonian Safer Internet Centre organised several events.
Insafe network meets online to discuss children’s rights in relation to the digital environment
Today, the Insafe network meets online for a focus group on the topic of children’s rights in relation to the digital environment, more particularly with regards to how policy in that field can be translated into practice.
Celebrating a great Safer Internet Day in Spain
For the first time, the traditional Safer Internet Day (SID) celebration in Spain was marked with an online event due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions. INCIBE, the Spanish Safer Internet Centre (SIC) coordinator, hosted the event over two days, 9-10 Februarya2021, under the slogan “Together for a better internet: more connected, more secure”.
Webinar on sexuality and risk behaviour online
Making the internet safer remains a strategic objective in Portugal. According to the EU Kids Online 2020 report, approximately 1 in 4 children or young people say they have had an "uncomfortable" experience online (18 per cent for boys; 27 per cent for girls). Equally, more than half of children say they have difficulties in verifying which information online is true (53 per cent).
#WeAreFearless in Italy on Safer Internet Day 2021
In Italy, the Safer Internet Day (SID) 2021 event was hosted completely online and made available via live streaming. Students, parents, and teachers - the whole scholastic community - debated how to help younger generations through a learning process on positive use of the web, the technological instruments available, and their role in good and appropriate use of the platforms.
Annual student video competition on safe and creative use of the internet
On Tuesday, 16 February 2021, the final evaluation of the competition “Production of student videos for the safe and creative use of the internet” took place successfully during an online seminar. The seminar was organised by the Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus, of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth, with the support of the Cyprus Safer Internet Centre (SIC) – CYberSafety.
