All SIC Coordinators/SIC onboarding contacts have been contacted recently regarding the continuing onboarding activities. For those SICs that are still to create their organisation records, please do so by close of business on Wednesday, 30 October 2024. We need your organisations to be created in the system to proceed with onboarding other colleagues in your SIC and to connect your resource and helpline case study record to the correct organisation.

Where the organisation setup is complete for your consortium, SIC Coordinators/SIC onboarding contacts should proceed with inviting their consortium colleagues to join, following the instructions issued last week.

Important: any SIC colleagues who created a registration record in recent weeks but linked themselves to the SIC record will need to go back into their profiles and connect themselves to their organisation instead. Once this is done, a workflow notification will be triggered, allowing your account to be approved.

Any queries regarding the new platform - whether onboarding issues or otherwise - should be directed to the support helpdesk (or channelled via the contact forms on the platform).

Please note that sign-in is only needed to access the community area of the new platform; the public platform can be accessed and browsed without registration.

Many thanks to all those who joined the helpline early warning group meeting last week. A report from the meeting, along with a link to the recording, can be found in the new BIK Community (login first). For further information, please contact Karl.

There will be an online meeting at 10:00 CET on Thursday, 28 November 2024 which will focus on gamer needs in a toxic online gaming landscape.OuassimaBelmoussi from the Dutch helpline will share her latest research into thisimportant area. Please use this link to join; contact Karl for further information. 

There will be an online meeting focusing on youth participation and volunteering on Thursday, 7 November 2024 at 14:00 CET.There will be a number ofcolleagues who will share their experiences of working with young people and with young volunteers, as well as an opportunity for discussion. This meeting may last a little longer than the usual one hour due to the number of people contributing but we will record the meeting as usual and share this in the BIK community. Please use this link to join; contact Karl for further information. 

A reminder that we are still accepting registration for online attendance at this year's Safer Internet Forum via this link.

Please feel free to share the link for online attendance with your boards, networks, and other stakeholders. 

If you have any questions, please contact saferinternetforum@betterinternetforkids.eu.

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!

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.

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.

SID Working Group meeting
SID Working Group members are kindly reminded to respond to the Doodle circulated last week to confirm their availability for a WG meeting next week.

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

A kind reminder that we are now accepting SIC article submissions following the launch of the new BIK platform. Please contact the BIK content mailbox with any submissions or in case of any queries. Recently published articles include:

• Bootcamp for Girls 2024 in Portugal
• In the spotlight: Safer Internet Centre Italy
• In the spotlight: Safer Internet Centre Germany
• Should mobile phones be banned in schools?

Many of you now have access to the new BIK community. Please feel free to explore the various tools and resources, and start contributing to community of practice (CoP) discussions.

In case of questions, please email support@betterinternetforkids.eu.

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