Insafe Weekly Update

Please note, this will be the last Insafe Weekly Update of 2024. 

The European Schoolnet office will be closed for the festive break from Monday, 23 December 2024 until Wednesday, 1 January 2025 (inclusive). The next Weekly Update will be published on the following Monday, 6 January 2025.
 
The Coordination Team thank you for all your support during 2024 and look forward to our continued collaboration in 2025.

Image credit: BIK/Safer Internet Day

The latest helpline quarterly report, covering the period July - September 2024, is now available from the BIK community (login first). An infographic captures some of the data's headlines.
 
Thanks as ever for submitting all the statistics and sharing your observations and trends; we hope you find the report useful. Please contact Karl if you have any questions or need any further information.

Assessment platform submissions are now due for helplines and hotlines (login first) reporting on the fourth quarter of 2024 (October - December inclusive). Please remember that this submission will be made using the assessment platform in the new BIK community and data can be uploaded any time from now. The deadline for both helpline and hotline submissions is the close of business on Friday, 10 January 2025.

The Excel template for helplines is now available in the new BIK community (login first). A reminder, also, that the Good practice guide on helpline data (March 2023) can also be accessed in the BIK community here (login first). In addition, a short guide will be emailed to all helplines this week. For further information, please contact Karl (helplines).

The Excel template for hotlines is now available in the new BIK community (login first). Please contact Abby (INHOPE) for any queries regarding hotline submissions.

The awareness data form in the assessment platform(requires login) will be available for submissions from Monday, 16 December 2024 until Friday, 17 January 2025. The data submitted should cover the period of 1 January - 31 December 2024. The current Excel data form templates can be found here (please do not use templates from earlier periods). A recording of the recent awareness data collection and submission training can be accessed here. For any questions, please contact Eray. 

Information on helpline and hotline assessment platform submissions will follow next week.

Following the success of the helpline early warning meetings, the temporary working group which was set up to look at how best to share public concerns and possible trends and emerging issues, decided that an early warning meeting for awareness centres would be useful. These meetings will take place every six weeks and will providean opportunity to share any current challenges in your country, any new research that has been published, and any new and emerging trends. The first meeting will take place on Tuesday, 7 January 2025 at 14:00 CET; use this link to join the meeting. All colleagues are welcome regardless of whether you have anything to share. For further information, please contact Karl.

The next helpline early warning group meeting will take place on Friday, 24 January 2025 at 11:00 CET; use this link to join the meeting. If you need any further information, then please contact Karl.

A reminder that Safer Internet Day (SID) 2025 will be marked by a global day of focus on Tuesday, 11 February 2025, and events and activities will take place throughout the whole month, across Europe and the globe!

Ally - the new Safer Internet Day mascot
The editable design files for Ally - the new Safer Internet Day mascot - are now available in the new BIK community (log in first) or by emailing the SID helpdesk directly.

[REMINDER] SID video 
Given the recent change of mascot, and to give Ally a proper introduction to everyone involved in the SID celebrations, we are currently working on an updated version of the SID video including the new mascot and visual identity. We are looking forward to showing you thefinal result, but in the meantime, we can share that it’s going to be similar to the current SID video, as in it will have the same script (and voiceover) in English, which as you know is already available with subtitles in all EU languages. Therefore, once again this year, we offer the possibility to SICs to produce a localised version of the SID video, if you’re able to provide us with a voiceover in your national language. If you’re interested in exploring this option, please contact Annarita. 

For those who have provided a voiceover in recent years, we will automatically take care of integrating this in the new version and will be in touch in due course with further information. In all instances, we hope to make the new video available in early January 2025.

Sharing network SID plans
As mentioned at the recent Insafe Training meeting, we have once again made an online document available for SICs and SIC+ countries to share their SID plans with other members of the network. A reminder that this is an internal document only, to allow network members to see the plans of other SIC/SIC+ organisations, and to make connections where there are synergies. The EC also refer to this regularly to help inform SID planning. Please update the document regularly as your plans progress. 

Updating SID public profile pages
Information on updating public SID profile pages will be shared soon.

[REMINDER] Reporting on SID 2025 actions
Following the redevelopment of the BIK platform, reporting for Safer Internet Day will now be conducted through the BIK community and aligned with the tools used for assessment platform uploads (including an Excel file upload for those SICs who prefer to work that way).

We will share more information and instructions in the new year, but given that we are now recognising SID as a whole month of activities, we will seek to gather statistics for both the global day of celebration (11/02) and the full campaign period (01/02 - 28/02). To enable us to benefit from the campaign momentum in follow-up activities, completed SID reports should be uploaded by the close of business on Tuesday, 11 March 2025.

In case of questions or queries
Please feel free to contact the SID helpdesk with any further questions regarding the 2025 campaign.

Recently published articles include:

• A successful peer-to-peer programme celebrates its 30th anniversary (SIC DE)
• Latest helpline trends: Quarter 3, 2024
• Celebrating 30 years of Safety Line in the Czech Republic (SIC CZ)
• Key insights and progress from INHOPE hotlines in Q3 2024
• MediaSmartOnline: spotlighting media literacy initiatives across Europe
• New European Commission priorities align with the BIK+ strategy
• Safer Internet Centre Croatia opens its third office (SIC HR)
• The first official Trusted Flagger in Greece under the DSA (SIC GR)
• The Insafe resource competition (SIC FR)
• Youth representing Austria at the Safer Internet Forum 2024 in Brussels (SIC AT)
• Media education tools in five languages - critical thinking among children (SIC PL)

Please contact the BIK content mailbox with any submissions or in case of any queries.

[REMINDER] Subscribe to the BIK community of practice discussions

We hope you have had time to start exploring the community of practice discussions organised under the four strands of Awareness, Helpline, Hotlines and Youth (when logged in). We also invite you to start contributing to the discussions to help build a vibrant and knowledgeable community within the Insafe and INHOPE networks.

Did you know that you can receive alerts directly to your inbox when a new comment is posted? Under each strand, go to My subscriptions. You can set an alert for each sub-category of discussion: 

Need some support?

If you have questions about any aspect of the new BIK platform, please use the contact form on the BIK platform or contact us via the BIK support mailbox.

Please note the updated URLs for the new BIK platform:

• Better Internet for Kids (BIK) on the new public platform:
  better-internet-for-kids. europa.eu; #BIK; #BIKbulletin
• BIK strategy (BIK+) on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/bik/bik-plus-strategy; #BIKplus
• Safer Internet Forum (SIF) on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/sif; #SIF2024, #SaferInternetForum
• BIK Knowledge hub on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/knowledge-hub; #BIKPolicyMap
• BIK Youth on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/bik-youth; #BIKyouth; #Pledge2Youth
• Safer Internet Day (SID) on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/saferinternetday; #SID2025; #SaferInternetDay
• Media literacy campaign on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/media-smart-online; #MediaSmartOnline
• Child and youth consumer protection campaign on the new BIK platform:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/adwiseonline; #AdWiseOnline
• 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