Insafe Weekly Update

Many thanks to everyone who attended the joint Insafe-INHOPE training meeting last week, and huge thanks to Maija and the team from the Latvian Safer Internet Centre for being such great hosts.

Many of the presentations are available from the BIK community (login first), and others will be added in the coming days.

You can also access the recordings from the main plenary room livestream (Jura and Jurmala) using the following links:

• Day 1 livestream recording (Wednesday, 15 April 2026)
• Day 2 livestream recording (Thursday, 16 April 2026)

As always, we invite you to share your feedback on the training meeting via the customary evaluation survey. Your input is really helpful in shaping future meetings.

For any further information, please contact Karl.

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A reminder that the Insafe Steering Committee meeting will take place this week, online, on Wednesday, 22 April 2026 from10:00 to 12:00 CEST. Joining instructions have been shared directly with SC members.

The new call “Ensuring comprehensive geographical coverage of the network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs)” has been published. The planned opening date is tomorrow - Tuesday, 21 April 2026; the submission deadline is Thursday, 1 October 2026 (17:00 Brussels time). All relevant information regarding the call is available on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal.

[UPDATE] In the context of this call, HaDEA is organising an info session on Wednesday, 29 April 2026 at 10.00 CEST. Find more information about the session here; join the session via this link.

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 Sunday, 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.

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.

Use this link to join the meeting, which will take place on Google Meet rather than the usual Teams.

If you have any specific questions or issues you would like OpenAI to address during the meeting, or if you require any other information, please contact Karl. We want to ensure that the session is as useful as possible.

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 CEST; 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.

The next meeting will take place on Monday, 11 May 2026 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.

Please note, this item relates to INHOPE work linked with the
current BIK project (2025-2027).

INHOPE's Expert Insights webinar series is back for 2026 with three sessions diving into critical and emerging topics in child online safety, featuring leading voices from the OECD, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, Tech Coalition, Discord, and GIFCT.

All sessions are free, online, and open to approved registrants:

• Wednesday, 6 May 2026, 15:00 CEST: Toward greater transparency: Insights from OECD's 2025 benchmarking study on transparency reporting
• Wednesday, 27 May 2026, 16:00 CEST: Understanding online subcultures of nihilistic violence
• Thursday, 25 June 2026, 16:00 CEST: Tackling the sadistic online exploitation of children in online gaming environments

Find out more about each session and register for the first one here.

Please note, this item relates to wider INHOPE work, not linked with the
current BIK project (2025-2027). It is provided here for information purposes only.

INHOPE has published its Annual Report 2025, presenting the latest data and operational insights from the global network of hotlines responding to online child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

The report provides a detailed overview of reporting volumes, victim profiles, hosting patterns, and emerging technological and behavioural trends shaping the online threat landscape.

Read the full report here.

A digi.well webinar, “Connected but calm: psychological strategies for healthy digital lives in the school environment”, will take place on Thursday, 30 April 2026 (17:00–18:30 CEST).

The session will explore how digital practices affect students’ well-being, learning, and relationships, and will also discover practical strategies for schools. The session will also feature expert insights and young people’s perspectives, and introduce the digi.well self-assessment tool and action plan to support a whole-school approach to digital well-being. Interested participants are invited to register here.

Recently published articles include:

• The Insafe and INHOPE networks meet to facilitate the sharing of good practices at the joint training meeting

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