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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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MeToo hashtag on a placard
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  • Greek Safer Internet Centre
  • 28 May 2021

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.
Group of teenagers gathered around a laptop
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  • Belgian Safer Internet Centre
  • 27 May 2021

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.
Tablet in a bag on a park bench
  • news
  • Portuguese Safer Internet Centre
  • 25 May 2021

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'.
Students in front of a blackboard
  • news
  • eTwinning
  • 11 May 2021

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.
Old-fashioned typewriter displaying a page with Fake News in large font
  • news
  • Estonian Safer Internet Centre
  • 06 May 2021

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.
Aerial view of Madrid
  • news
  • Spanish Safer Internet Centre
  • 23 April 2021

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”.
View of Lisbon
  • news
  • Portuguese Safer Internet Centre
  • 14 April 2021

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).
View of the Coliseum in Rome
  • news
  • Italian Safer Internet Centre
  • 12 April 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.
Teenagers taking photos on a mobile device in the countryside
  • news
  • Cyprus Safer Internet Centre
  • 09 April 2021

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.
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