Better Internet for Kids

To address online safety challenges and promote a safer online environment for children, a nationwide TV campaign has been launched by the Greek Safer Internet Centre. This campaign aims to educate parents, caregivers, guardians and young people about the importance of online safety, provide practical tips and guidance for navigating the digital world responsibly, and inform about the support offered by the Greek helpline and hotline services.

Applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) are conquering our everyday lives. How should parents and caregivers deal with this? The Austrian Safer Internet Centre shares some tips.

Social Media Day was celebrated in Portugal on 30 June 2023. The Portuguese Safer Internet Centre, aware of the peculiarities of these platforms, developed the In[sight] campaign to make people aware of some widely used terms and acronyms.

You will find below a few tips from the Belgian Safer Internet Centre which you can pass along to teenagers to make their experience online safer and more enjoyable

The latest studies in Flanders and Brussels on victims of teenage pimps are clear: professionals with in-depth knowledge and skills about this phenomenon can no longer tolerate delay.

Child Focus launched the card game GrooMix. This educational game aims to make children and teenagers aware of and resilient to phenomena such as online grooming. Grooming is the process by which an adult approaches a minor with a sexual purpose, either to meet them or to obtain explicit material. The game focuses on the (potential) victim perspective: how can you, as a young person, protect yourself against grooming and how to deal with messages from strangers?

Online pornography is very easily accessible to all internet users. Slovenian children and teenagers encounter it at a very early age, which can give them incorrect ideas about sexuality and relationships between individuals, and what they see can deeply affect them and their education.

On 8 June 2023, Child Focus and its partners organised the final conference of the European SafeOnline Initiative: a European event on parenting about digital media.

It has become a tradition for “Langas į ateitį”, together with the Safer Internet Centre partners, to visit children's camps every summer and to talk to the campers about the opportunities and dangers of the internet.

For 29 years, Linka bezpečí (helpline) has been dedicated to assisting children and students who find themselves in challenging situations, providing support and solutions for their everyday concerns. Parents, family members and other adults working with children receive professional support through the "Parental Line ", offering them help and general social counselling during crisis. The Czech Safer Internet Centre overviews the recurring issues and challenges.