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23/09/2024
| |  | | Insafe Weekly UpdateBringing you the latest news on Better Internet for Kids (BIK+) and beyond... |
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| | | | | Platform redevelopment tasks | | | Governance |  |  | DSA – call for evidence on the protection of minors closing soon | [FINAL REMINDER, FOR PARTICIPATION AND DISSEMINATION] | The European Commission has launched a call for evidence, responses to which will feed into the guidelines the Commission is preparing under Art.28(4) of the DSA on the protection of minors. Once adopted, these guidelines will help online platforms apply the requirement to put in place appropriate measures to ensure a high-level of privacy safety and security for minors online. The call seeks feedback on the proposed scope and approach of the guidelines, as well as on good practices and recommendations related to mitigation measures to the risks that minors can encounter online. The Commission is inviting all stakeholders to take part in the call for evidence, including by providing supporting scientific reports and research. Online platforms should ensure that the rights and best interests of children are a central consideration when designing their services. Platforms should adopt a risk-based approach, regularly carry out impact assessments, and implement mitigation measures for any potential risks to minors stemming from their services. The work of the Working Group on the Protection of Minors under the Board will also feed into the guidelines. The call is available in all EU official languages; a news item can be found here. Next steps: - Contributions are welcome to the call for evidence until Monday, 30 September 2024 (midnight Brussels time).
- After the close of the call, the Commission will use input to draft the guidelines.
- The Commission will conduct a public consultation on the draft guidelines.
- Consultation of the Board.
- Adoption of the guidelines is planned for before the summer of 2025.
Safer Internet Centres are encouraged to contribute to the call for evidence. Please feel free to share this information with your own relevant contacts and networks also. |  |
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| | Assessment and evaluation |  |  | First BIK+ strategy evaluation: The role of Safer Internet Centres – start of consultation activities | [UPDATED, FOR PARTICIPATION] | Again, thank you to the many of you who are actively supporting the first evaluation of the BIK+ strategy. We appreciate your commitment and support. All SICs supporting the activity were sent the packages for consultation facilitators, including the items translated into the national language, via e-mail last week.All available language packages for consultation facilitators can also be downloaded via the BIK portal. NB: If you would like to improve the language of translated items to meet the needs of the group(s) you are consulting better, please do not hesitate to do so. If you choose to do so, please be so kind as to inform us about the adaptations by writing to BIKevaluation@betterinternetforkids.eu. To reiterate, the involvement of Safer Internet Centres in this activity entails: If you are interested in supporting the first BIK+ strategy evaluation but have not yet confirmed your participation, please write to us atBIKevaluation@betterinternetforkids.eu and download the package for consultation facilitators in your language through the BIK portal. |  |
|  |  | First BIK+ strategy evaluation: consultations with parents, caregivers, teachers, and educators | [CLOSING NEXT SUNDAY, FOR INFORMATION AND DISSEMINATION] | In addition to participation from Safer Internet Centres as facilitators of consultations with children and young people in the first BIK+ strategy evaluation (see above), we are keen to engage with parents, caregivers, teachers, and educators. All Safer Internet Centres are invited to disseminate the open calls: The consultation process with parents and teachers is anticipated to be as follows (as the deadline to register has been extended, the timeline below has been updated accordingly): - Consultation sessions will be organised online at different times and dates between Monday, 14 October and Thursday, 31 October 2024 (exact dates and times will be shared in due time via email).
- The session duration will be 1 – 1.5 hours (exact duration to be confirmed closer to the date via email).
- The deadline for submitting additional written feedback after the consultation session (optional) is Friday, 01 November 2024, at 18.00 CET.
- The final evaluation report will be published in February 2025.
In order to take part in the consultation, participants are invited to complete an online registration form as follows: The deadline to register has been extended until Sunday, 29 September 2024. We continue publishing posts on our social media platforms (Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and LinkedIn) to promote this activity. Safer Internet Centres are kindly encouraged to reshare the posts or find other ways to share the call information with their national communities, contacts and networks.
If you have questions, please contact BIKevaluation@betterinternetforkids.eu. |  |
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| | Capacity building |  |  | Insafe Training meeting (online): registration now open | [REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION] |
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|  |  | Insafe Training meeting (online): resource competition | [FINAL REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION] | As usual, a resource competition will take place as part of the upcoming Insafe Training meeting. All EC co-funded SICs are welcome to participate and have the chance to win €5,000, which must be used to make the resource accessible to the wider network. Typically, the funds would be used for translation and/or adaptation. The resource could be a video, brochure, book, research report, or learning materials - anything that would be of interest and use to the wider network. This edition of the resource competition will focus on parents and caregivers. SICs are invited to submit any resource that targets or is aimed at this particular group. The deadline for submissions is by COB on Monday, 30 September 2024. Those wishing to participate should submit an entry using this short online form. Please remember that each country can only submit one resource. If you are unsure if a particular resource fits the requirements, please contact Karl or Annarita to discuss. Please find below an outline of the upcoming deadlines related to the resource competition: COB on Monday, 30 September 2024 | Deadline for SICs to submit a resource proposal | Wednesday, 2 October 2024 | The gallery of submitted resource proposals will be available to view via the BIK community, and SICs can vote for their favourite. | COB on Thursday, 10 October 2024 | Deadline for SICs to vote for their favourite resource proposal. | Friday, 11 October 2024 | SICs will be informed if their resource proposal has been selected for presentation during the online Insafe Training meeting. | Tuesday, 15 October 2024 | The most popular resource proposals will be showcased during the online Insafe Training meeting, and participants will be able to vote for their favourite. |
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|  |  | Online meeting for youth coordinators | [NEXT WEEK, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION] | The next online meeting for youth coordinators will take place on Monday, 30 September 2024 at 14:00 CEST. During this meeting we will have a presentation on the structures for youth participation in the Finnish Safer Internet Centre.Access the meeting using this link; for further information, please contact Eray. |  |
|  |  | Online meeting with TikTok | [REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION | An online meeting with TikTok will take place on Tuesday, 1 October 2024 at 12:00 CEST. It will provide an opportunity to hear about latest developments in safety and privacy on the platform, as well as to ask any questions; use this link to join the meeting. For further information, please contact Karl. For further information, please contact Karl. |  |
|  |  | CSAPE: Seminar on tackling child sexual abuse in Europe through prevention and collaboration | [REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION] | Save the Children Finland has been leading a two-year EU-funded project: Child Sexual Abuse Prevention and Education (CSAPE). It aims to prevent child sexual abuse through sexual education and early support to young people who have a sexual interest towards younger children. The project consortium comprises partners from Greece, Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, and Iceland. The project is organising a hybrid seminar, From Awareness to Action—Tackling Child Sexual Abuse in Europe through Prevention and Collaboration, in Brussels on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, from 9.30 to 16.00 CET. In the seminar, you will hear interesting keynote speeches and project results. SICs are welcome to attend either on-site in Brussels or online; register for the event here. The CSAPE project has also produced several materials that are available via Save the Children Finland's website. Most of the materials are in six languages: English, Finnish, Greek, Albanian, Icelandic, and Bosnian. Here you will find a few of the materials (in English): For further information, please contact Karl. |  |
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| | Events and campaigns |  |  | Safer Internet Forum 2024: SIC registration will open soon | [REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION] | Safer Internet Centre Coordinators will soon receive a mailing explaining the registration process for Safer Internet Forum (SIF), which will take place in hybrid form on Thursday, 21 November 2024. As last year, there is again limited in-person attendance; however, there are no limits on online attendance from your SIC. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact saferinternetforum@betterinternetforkids.eu. |  |
|  |  | Safer Internet Day 2025: new mascot reveal soon | [REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION] | Now that summer is over, planning will ramp up for the next edition of Safer Internet Day (SID) 2025. We kindly remind you 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! Since the last edition of the BIK bulletin, a panel of BIK youth representatives have been working alongside professional designers to scope the development of a new Safer Internet Day mascot. We'll introduce you to the new mascot in the coming weeks and share some insights into all the hard work that's gone into it. 
If you have questions in the meantime, please contact the SID helpdesk. |  |
|  |  | MediaSmartOnline: media literacy actions conducted by Safer Internet Centres | [REMINDER, FOR INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION] | After running a successful pilot test of the MediaSmartOnline campaign in March-April 2024, and after the brainstorming and planning work of the Media Literacy Campaign Working Group (MLC-WG) to scale activities, we are glad to announce the first full roll-out of MediaSmartOnline, running from 24 October (the first day of the Global Media and Information Literacy Week) for approximately one month until Safer Internet Forum (21 November 2024). For future editions of the campaign, while the starting date remains unchanged, we note that Safer Internet Forum dates may change significantly from year to year – if that is the case, the campaign will typically run for one calendar month. As previously mentioned, this will be the first edition of a campaign that will progressively build into the BIK calendar of annual campaigns. This campaign will have a similar structure to the Safer Internet Day campaign: a long-term campaign that is progressive and involves continued effort, building on its foundations and expanding its scope each year, ensuring that its brand and visual identity become more established over time. All SICs are encouraged to get involved by supporting our dissemination efforts. All SICs will be provided a comprehensive dissemination plan and promo pack by email and via the Insafe Weekly Update by COB on Friday, 4 October 2024. This should allow enough time to liaise and schedule internally. In the meantime, a general reminder that this is the last day to send any materials by email to Annarita to briefly describe any current media literacy actions you think might be relevant and would like to see spotlighted for the campaign. You can also use this Excel sheet to help you. More details on the campaign will be continuously provided via the Weekly Update, but for now many thanks for pinning down the campaigning dates in your calendars. In case of any questions at this stage, do not hesitate to reach out to Annarita. The general background and context of the campaign is also available on the MediaSmartOnline landing page on the BIK portal. |  |
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| | Dissemination | | | Approaching deadlines |  |  | Deadline for SIC contributions to the next edition of the BIK bulletin (see above) | Wednesday, 25 September 2024 (close of business) | Deadline for SICs to submit profile updates for the new BIK platform (see above) | Friday, 27 September 2024(close of business) | Deadline for parents, caregivers, teachers and educators to submit expressions of interest in sharing their views for the first BIK+ strategy evaluation (see above) | Extended until Sunday, 29 September 2024 | Deadline for SICs to submit a proposal for the Insafe Training meeting resource competition (see above) | Monday, 30 September 2024 (close of business) | Deadline to submit responses to the DSA call for evidence on the protection of minors (see above) | Monday, 30 September 2024 (midnight Brussels time) |
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| | Important dates to come |  |  | ackathon to tackle online gender-based violence issues | Wednesday, 25 September 2024 (Aarhus, Denmark) | All (see link) | Online meeting for youth coordinators | Monday, 30 September 2024 at 14:00 CEST (online) | Youth coordinators | Update from TikTok | Tuesday, 1 October 2024 at 12:00 CEST (online) | All (see above) | INHOPE Summit 2024 | Tuesday, 8 - Wednesday, 9 October 2024 (hybrid: New York, United States and online) | Please note this item relates to wider INHOPE work not linked with BIK; see the link for further information | Insafe Training meeting | Tuesday, 15 to Thursday, 17 October 2024 (online) | See above |
| Friday, 18 October 2024 (online) at 9:30 CEST |
| Helplines early warning meeting | Friday, 25 October 2024 (online) at 11:00 CET | Helplines | Safer Internet Forum 2024 (and related activities) | w/c Monday, 18 November 2024 (with SIF taking place on Thursday, 21 November 2024 in hybrid format: Brussels, Belgium and online) | More details to follow nearer the time | Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2024 | Sunday, 15 to Thursday, 19 December 2024 (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) | More details to follow nearer the time | Safer Internet Day (SID) 2025 | Tuesday, 11 February 2025 (a global day of focus, with the promotion of activities throughout the whole month) | All – "Together for a better internet" More details to follow nearer the time | Insafe/INHOPE joint training meeting | Wednesday, 19 and Thursday, 20 March, 2025 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) | All – More details to follow nearer the time |
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