Insafe Weekly Update

We look forward to seeing many of you at the joint Insafe-INHOPE training meeting this week, taking place in Latvia on Wednesday,15 and Thursday, 16 April 2026 at the Baltic Beach Hotel in Jūrmala, near Riga.

The meeting will start at 13:00 EEST on Wednesday, 15 April 2026.

Please note, there are two optional sessions on Wednesday morning (selected at the time of registration): a “Method Market” focusing on how to use gamification in educational work with Gen Z and Alpha generations (starting at 09:30 EEST), and an overview of the Latvian helpline (starting at 10:00 EEST).

Registered participants will by now have received the customary training meeting booklet by email, giving the full agenda and speaker biographies (also available online). Parallel session choices will be displayed on the badges of onsite attendees.

Exceptionally, the sessions hosted in the main plenary room (Jura and Jurmala) will be livestreamed for this edition of the joint training meeting:

• Day 1 livestream link (Wednesday, 15 April 2026)
  Livestreaming sessions from 9:30 to 17:00 EEST (CEST+1)
• Day 2 livestream link (Thursday, 16 April 2026)
  Livestreaming sessions from 9:00 to 17:00 EEST (CEST+1)

The agenda further confirms which sessions will be streamed. Any questions relating to the livestream on Wednesday/Thursday should be directed to the BIK-info mailbox.

If you have any questions or need further information about the joint training meeting more generally, please contact Karl.

Thank you to all SICs and hotlines for submitting a resource to enter the competition or for voting for their favourite. The three finalists have now been contacted, and a final round of voting will take place during a dedicated session at the joint training meeting on Thursday, 16 April 2026.

For any questions, please contact Annarita.

The new call “Ensuring comprehensive geographical coverage of the Network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs)” has been published. The planned opening date is Tuesday, 21 April 2026; the submission deadline is Thursday, 1 October 2026 (17:00 Brussels time).

All relevant information is available on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

The European Union wants apps, websites, games and social media to be fair and safe for children. To help make this happen, children and teenagers (aged 12 to 17) are invited to share their views on the Digital Fairness Act through an online survey. The survey is available until Monday, 26 April 2026 and is available in all EU languages.

Read more about the consultation on the Children's Participation Platform.

Safer Internet Centres are encouraged to share this information with their own youth panels, and wider national contacts and networks.

The recording of last week's EC presentation on the EU Action plan against cyberbullying is now available.

Discover more about the action plan on the EC website:

• European Commission press release
• Action plan against cyberbullying
• Factsheet on the Action plan against cyberbullying

There will be a meeting with colleagues from OpenAI on Tuesday, 21 April 2026, from 17:15-18:00 CEST. Apologies for the late start – OpenAI colleagues from the US West Coast are attending, and after a lot of back-and-forth, we agreed on this as a compromise. If you have any specific questions or issues that you would like them to address during the meeting, please let Karl know, as we want to ensure that the session is as useful as possible. You can use this link to join the meeting, which will take place on Google Meet rather than the usual Teams.

For further information, please contact Karl.

The next meeting will take place on Wednesday, 22 April 2026 at 12:00 CEST – please note the different start time. Use this link to join the meeting.

A report from the last meeting, with a link to the recording, is available from the BIK community (login first).

Please contact Karl for any further information on helpline early warning meetings.

The next online meeting for youth coordinators will take place on Thursday, 30 April 2026 at 11.00 CET; access the meeting using this link. A reminder that you can find reports from previous youth coordinator meetings in the BIK community (login first).

For further information, please contact Chiara and Carolina.

Many thanks to those who attended the recent awareness early warning meeting. You can find a report from the meeting along with a link to the recording in the BIK community (login first).

The next meeting will take place on Monday, 11 May at 11:00 CEST; use this link to join.

Please remember that you can use the Teams chat to share information between meetings. A reminder also that reports and recordings from all previous meetings are available from the BIK community (login first).

Please contact Karl for any further information about awareness early warning meetings.

There will be a meeting with the Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) on Thursday, 21 May 2026 at 11:00 CEST. CCDH is a not-for-profit NGO that aims to hold social media and AI companies accountable for the online harm that is encountered on their platforms. They conduct research and run campaigns to raise awareness of some of the problems; find more information here. Use this link to join the meeting. The meeting will particularly focus on their research into AI chatbots, available here (AI chatbots assisting users in planning violent attacks) and here (how ChatGPT betrays vulnerable teens by encouraging dangerous behaviour).

For further information, please contact Karl.

The March 2026 edition of the BIK bulletin has recently been published.

This edition highlights outcomes from the recent edition of Safer Internet Day. To coincide with the celebrations, the European Commission adopted the EU Action plan against cyberbullying, which will drive forward actions to protect Europe's children online. Correspondingly, the BIK Knowledge hub insights series took a deep dive into cyberbullying, drawing on information, evidence, and policy insights from safer internet services across the EU.

Visit the BIK portal for the bulletin archive, or subscribe to receive future editions directly.

Recently published articles include:

• Safer Internet Day 2026 in Nigeria
• Safer Internet Day 2026 in Panama
• Safer Internet Day 2026 is celebrated in Georgia for its eighth edition
• Safer Internet Day 2026 in the United Kingdom (SIC UK)

Access the full BIK news article archive here.

Explore the full collection of Safer Internet Day (SID) 2026 articles here.

Please contact the BIK content mailbox with any article submissions or queries.

• A reminder that reports from online meetings for awareness centres and helplines are now available in the BIK community, including those from early warning meetings for both strands.
• Safer Internet Centres continue to upload resources to the BIK community resource repository: explore or upload your SIC's resources here (alternatively, access the public resource directory here).
• Equally, SICs have been uploading new helpline case studies: explore or upload your SIC's case studies here.
• Please refer to the BIK platform user guides for support with regular tasks (such as resource and helpline case study uploads).
• The Insafe induction manual also provides a good background on the tools and services available to network members, the various commitments you have as a network member (including a handy checklist by strand), and contact information for team members.

Alternatively, we are happy to schedule short online support calls at any time. Please use the contact form on the BIK platform or contact the BIK support mailbox initially. We will then schedule a call at a mutually convenient time.

Please remember to log in to access any BIK community links.

• Better Internet for Kids (BIK):
  better-internet-for-kids. europa.eu; #BIK; #BIKbulletin
• BIK strategy (BIK+):
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/bik/bik-plus-strategy; #BIKplus
• Safer Internet Forum (SIF):
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/sif; #SaferInternetForum; #SIF2026
• BIK Knowledge hub:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/knowledge-hub; #BIKPolicyMap
• BIK Youth:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/bik-youth; #BIKyouth
• Safer Internet Day (SID):
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/saferinternetday; #SaferInternetDay; #SID2026; #SaferInternetDay2026; #SID2027; #SaferInternetDay2027
• DSA for YOUth campaign:
  #DSAforYOUth; #DSA
• Project Facebook profiles:
  Insafe, Safer Internet Day, Insafe network closed Facebook group, INHOPE
• Project X (formerly Twitter) profiles:
  @insafenetwork; @safeinternetday; @BIK_youth; @inhope_pr
• Project LinkedIn profile:
  Better Internet for Kids