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This week's highlights...

Governance

Capacity building

Events, campaigns and resources

Dissemination

Approaching deadlines

Important dates to come

This week's highlights...

This week: Insafe Training meeting (online)

The Insafe Training meeting will take place this week on 14, 15 and 16 October 2025. Everyone who has registered should have received a copy of the training meeting booklet by now, which includes the final agenda. Please contact Karl if you need any further information.

The Insafe Steering Committee meeting will take place on Friday, 17 October 2025, from 13:30 to 16:00 CEST. For any questions regarding the Steering Committee, please contact Rima.

New campaign DSA for YOUth – Protecting minors by design – explore the campaign resources!

Last Friday, the DSA for YOUth toolkit, featuring a range of family-friendly resources, was launched, marking the start of the active phase of the DSA for YOUth campaign. The campaign focuses on the guidelines on the protection of minors under the DSA, as well as the approach to age assurance and age verification.

Explore the DSA for YOUth toolkit to access the family-friendly explainers, the DSA guidelines booklet, and a quiz on how the DSA helps protect children and teens online. The campaign will run until 7 November 2025, featuring online events, youth video interviews, influencer collaborations, and insights from Safer Internet Centres (SICs).

Check the campaign page regularly for updates and join the conversation on social media via LinkedIn, X, Facebook, or by using the hashtag #DSAforYOUth. Feel free to use the promo pack to help spread the word about how the DSA keeps kids and teens safe online.

A reminder, also, that we are keen to receive SIC insight articles on how you are working to help enforce the DSA through your national actions, including:

case studies highlighting national best practices;
spotlighting various resources that align with the guidelines to help keep users safe;
insights from those SICs involved in piloting and building upon the age verification blueprint (i.e. Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain);
insights into the work of those SICs designated as trusted flaggers, for example, through ‘day in the life’ stories (or similar) which show the stages that a report might go through or how trusted flaggers operate;
… or any other notable actions that your SIC is delivering to support the measures of the DSA!

Please send contributions to content@betterinternetforkids.eu by the close of business on Friday, 24 October 2025 (or sooner if possible).

Call for SIC representation in the BIK Advisory Board

We are still seeking one SIC Coordinator representative for the BIK Advisory Board. Please express your SIC's interest in participating by contacting Rimaas soon as possible.

Focus group on the Action plan against cyberbullying: national nominations are invited

We are still seeking parents/caregivers and teachers/educators from national networks to participate in an online focus group on the Action plan against cyberbullying on Thursday, 30 October 2025, from 18:00 to 20:00 CET. Please contact Carolina as soon as possible with national nominations; your nominations will directly contribute to shaping the EU’s efforts to combat cyberbullying.

Governance

Call for evidence and public consultation for the Digital Fairness Act

[UPDATED, DEADLINE EXTENDED]

The European Commission's call for evidence and public consultation on the forthcoming Digital Fairness Act continues.

The Digital Fairness Act will strengthen protection and digital fairness for consumers, while ensuring a level playing field and simplifying rules for businesses in the EU. It will address specific challenges as well as harmful practices that consumers face online, such as deceptive or manipulative interface design, misleading marketing by social media influencers, addictive design of digital products and unfair personalisation practices, especially where consumer vulnerabilities are exploited for commercial purposes. Young people are an important consumer segment with specific consumption patterns and often act as early adopters of new technologies and digital products. The Digital Fairness Act will pay particular attention to the protection of minors online.

The call for evidence and public consultation will be open until the extended deadline of Friday, 24 October 2025 (midnight Brussels time)and are available on the Have Your Say portal. For more information, please refer to the dedicated press release.

Capacity building

New lump sum mechanism scheme

[NEW, FOR INFORMATION]

A new lump sum mechanism (LSM) scheme is launching under the current BIK coordination contract (2025-2027) for EU co-funded Safer Internet Centres. Information on the new scheme will be shared first with SIC Coordinators at the Insafe Steering Committee meeting this Friday, and then in future Weekly Updates.

There will also be an online session to familiarise SICs with the new LSM scheme on Tuesday, 28 October 2025, from 14:00 - 15:00 CET. Join the meeting using this link.

In case of questions in the meantime, please contact Sarah.

Insafe induction manual for Safer Internet Centres

[NEW, FOR INFORMATION AND REFERENCE]

The Insafe induction manual for Safer Internet Centres has recently been updated and is available for download from the BIK community (login first). It’s a useful read for all, whether new to the network or not, as it provides a good background to the tools and services provided for network members, the various commitments you have as a member of the network (including a handy checklist by strand), and contact information for the various team members.

Feedback or suggestions for future editions are welcome via content@betterinternetforkids.eu.