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Insafe Weekly Update - 3 March 2025
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In this issue

Governance

The EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) – implementing EU funding with Member States and regions

[REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION]

The current multiannual financial framework (MFF) — the EU’s long-term budget — runs until the end of 2027. In 2025, the Commission will put forward comprehensive proposals for the post-2027 MFF and for the next generation of financial programmes. As announced in President von der Leyen’s Political Guidelines, the Commission is working towards a focused, simpler, and more impactful EU budget that reflects the EU’s strategic priorities, with the ambition to be an ‘investment Commission’. 

This consultation covers EU funds supporting cross-border education, training and solidarity, young people, media, culture, and creative sectors, values, and civil society. The decision to cluster issues serves to support the preparatory work and does not pre-empt the architecture of future programmes. 

This consultation is part of the overall public consultation exercise on the next MFF (running until Tuesday, 6 May 2025 (midnight Brussels time). See the EC website for further information and to respond to the consultation. 

Beyond BIK Phase 5...

[REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION]

As you may be aware, EUN is approaching the end of the BIK Phase 5 coordination contract (at the end of April 2025). The EC's tender process regarding the next project phase is still ongoing.

While not making any assumptions as to EUN's role in the next phase, for network continuity purposes, we will increasingly start to propose some dates and activities beyond the end of April in Weekly Update entries. This is to allow SICs to already reserve time for - and benefit from - capacity-building activities until the next BIK coordination contract is awarded.

Capacity building

Insafe-INHOPE joint training meeting - March 2025

[REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED]

The Insafe-INHOPE joint training meeting will take place in Amsterdam on 19-20 March 2025. The meeting will be held at the Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam City Centre and will start at 13:00 CET on Wednesday, 19 March, with two optional sessions on Wednesday morning: a visit to the Dutch helpline and hotline and a media literacy session hosted by NL SIC consortium partners ECP. 

Registration has now closed - if you would still like to attend, please contact Karl directly. 

If you still need to book accommodation, the following information may be helpful:

Walking distance (or a tram ride of 1 or 2 stops)  

There are many more hotels directly in the city centre. Anything within walking distance of the Central Station would work well, and tram 26 will take you to the Mövenpick Hotel, where the training meeting will take place in around 5 minutes.  

Amsterdam Sloterdijk has some cheaper options and is only 5 minutes by train from Amsterdam Central Station.

We are very grateful to our colleagues from Dutch SIC for all of their help and support in planning the meeting, and we are looking forward to seeing you all in Amsterdam in a couple of weeks. If you need any further information or have any questions, please contact Karl

Insafe-INHOPE joint training meeting resource competition

[VOTING OPENS ON WEDNESDAY]

Many thanks to all Safer Internet Centres and hotlines for submitting a resource to the Insafe-INHOPE joint training meeting resource competition! You will be able to review all entries and vote for your favourite starting this Wednesday, 5 March 2025. Voting will remain open until Thursday, 13 March 2025.  

Please find below an outline of the remaining deadlines related to the resource competition. If you have any questions, please contact Karl or Annarita .   

Wednesday, 5 March 2025 

The gallery of submitted resource proposals will be available to view via the BIK community, and SICs and hotlines will be able to vote for their favourite.

Thursday, 13 March 2025 

Deadline for SICs and hotlines to vote for their favourite resource proposal.

Friday, 14 March 2025 

SICs and hotlines will be informed if their resource proposal has been selected for presentation during the Insafe-INHOPE joint training meeting. 

Thursday, 20 March 2025 

The most popular resource proposals will be showcased during the joint training meeting, and participants will be able to cast their vote for their favourite. 

Good practice guide on working with younger children

[NEW, FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION]

As you may know, we are in the process of writing a good practice guide on working with very young children. We need to hear from you about any resources that you have that target this particular age group (children from 0-8), and also parents/caregivers and educators who work with them. Please can you share links to any resources or materials with Karl so that they can be included in the good practice guide (as soon as possible but by Friday, 14 March 2025 at the latest). Additionally, if anyone would be willing to provide feedback on the draft report, this would be very welcome too – again, please get in touch withKarl. 

Helpline early warning meeting

[THIS WEEK, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION]

The next early warning meeting for helplines will take place this Friday, 7 March 2025 at 11:00 CET; join the meeting using this link. For further information on any aspect of the helpline early warning meetingsplease contact Karl.

Awareness early warning meeting

[REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION]

Many thanks to those people who attended the early warning meeting for awareness centres last week. You can find a report from the meeting and a link to the recording in the BIK community (login first). For further information, please contact Karl.

The next early warning meeting for awareness centres will take place Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 14:00 CESTuse this link to join the meeting. All colleagues are welcome regardless of whether you have anything to share. 

Online meeting for helplines with Throughline

[REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION]

There will be an online meeting for helplines on Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 09:00 CEST. The meeting will hear from Elliot Taylor, the CEO of Throughline. Throughline is used by many social media platforms (e.g., Discord) and other platforms and apps,and provides a direct link to a helpline or support service which is local to a user who needs help. Some Insafe helplines are already included in their directory, but others are not, and we thought it would be useful to provide an opportunity for helplines to hear more about the service and how it works so that they could potentially be included. You can use this link to join the meeting. Please contact Karl if you need further information or if you have any questions.

Events and campaigns

Month of Safer Internet Day celebrations has now come to an end

[UPDATED, FOR ACTION]

The month of Safer Internet Day actions has now come to an end; thank you for all your support.

SID 2025 reporting
This is a kind reminder that your SIC’s SID reporting template (including a blog article on SID successes), is due for submission by COB next Tuesday, 11 March 2025, via the BIK community assessment tools (login first). This is required for campaign reporting to the EC, and it is important that your SIC's data is included.

Please note - there is no offline version of the reporting form this year (following feedback, we will ensure this is enabled for the next edition of SID). In the meantime, these screenshots provide an overview of what is required (in the BIK community; login first). Please note, also, that you can save the online form as a draft as many times as you need to before finally submitting it. 

SID 2026
As the 2025 edition draws to a close, a reminder that the 2026 edition of Safer Internet Day will again take place across the full month, with a global day of celebration on Tuesday, 10 February 2026 (a save the date logo can be downloaded from the BIK community; login first).

If you have questions on any aspect of the Safer Internet Day campaign, please contact saferinternetday@betterinternetforkids.eu.

Dissemination

Call for content for the next edition of the BIK bulletin

[NEW, FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION]

The next edition of the BIK bulletin will be published at the end of March 2025, with news on the recently published BIK+ strategy evaluation and a round-up of Safer Internet Day actions. As always, we also invite Safer Internet Centres (and their partners) to contribute with general articles on news, resources or events. The content deadline is COB on Monday, 24 March 2025. All contributions or queries should be addressed to content@betterinternetforkids.eu.

As a reminder, we generally suggest that articles should be 300 - 600 words in length (but longer focus pieces are fine too), along with copyright-cleared images/photographs/logos if appropriate. The BIK team reserves the right to edit contributions for house style etc., but we try to keep this to a minimum.

What’s been happening on the new BIK public portal?

[PORTAL NEWS UPDATES]

Articles
Recently published articles include:

Need some support?
Please contact the BIK content mailbox with any article submissions or in case of any queries.

What’s been happening in the community on the new BIK platform?

[PLATFORM COMMUNITY UPDATES]

Platform drop-in session at the joint training meeting
We will be hosting a short platform drop-in session over the lunchtime period (12:00 - 13:15) at the joint training meeting in Amsterdam on Thursday, 20 March 2025. Pop along to the registration desk with any queries, and Annarita and Sarah will be on hand to provide support. 

Please also remember that we can schedule short online support calls at any time. Please use the contact form on the BIK platform or contact the BIK support mailbox in the first instance, and we will schedule a call at a mutually convenient time.

General dissemination information

For information for your own dissemination actions...

Please note the updated URLs for the new BIK platform:

Approaching deadlines

Deadline for SICs to report on Safer Internet Day actions (see above)

Close of business on Tuesday, 11 March 2025

Deadline for SICs and hotlines to vote for their favourite resource proposal as part of the Insafe/INHOPE joint training meeting (see schedule above)

Close of business on Thursday, 13 March 2025 

Deadline for SIC contributions to the March 2025 edition of the BIK bulletin (see above) 

Close of business on Monday, 24 March 2025

Deadline to respond to the consultation on the EU’s next long-term budget (MFF) (see above) 

Tuesday, 6 May 2025 (midnight Brussels time)

Important dates to come

 

Early warning meeting for helplines 

Friday, 7 March 2025 at 11:00 CET (online)

Helplines (see above)

Insafe-INHOPE joint training meeting 

Wednesday, 19 and Thursday, 20 March, 2025 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 

Registration is now closed (the training meeting booklet will be issued soon)

Insafe Steering Committee meeting

Friday, 21 March, 2025 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Insafe Steering Committee members (more information to follow soon)

Focus group on cyberbullying

Tuesday, 25 March 2025 (Brussels, Belgium)

The call for SIC participation is now closed

Online meeting for youth coordinators

Thursday, 27 March 2025 at 11:00 CEST (online) 

Youth coordinators

Early warning meeting for awareness centres 

Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 14:00 CEST (online)

Awareness centres (see above) 

Online meeting for helplines with Throughline 

Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 09:00 CEST (online)

Helplines (see above)

EuroDIG 2025

12-14 May 2025 (Strasbourg, France)

Visit the EuroDIG website for more information

Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2025

23-27 June 2025 (Lillestrøm, Norway)

Visit the IGF website for more information 

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