EUN is currently in the process of supporting the European Commission in gathering feedback from children and young people on the Draft Guidelines for Article 28 of the DSA. While some SICs have already expressed an interest in conducting consultations with children and young people at the national level, EUN will complement the consultation series with a pan-European youth consultation. Hence, we are looking for 15 young people between the ages of 14 and 18 (ideally, with a preference for 16 to 18 years, given the nature of the consultation exercise). The consultation will take place online on Monday, 14 April 2025, from 18:00-19:30 CEST. 

To ensure a diverse group in terms of gender, age and geography, we invite each SIC to put forward a maximum of two nominees per country. Once the call for participation has been closed, we will inform SICs of the final group composition and selected youth.  Please note, as this consultation concerns aspects related to the DSA, the nominated youth should be from EU Member States only. 

If you are interested, please email the details of your proposed youth candidates to Chiara and Sabrina by the close of business on Monday, 31 March 2025.

We are looking forward to seeing many of you at the joint training meeting in Amsterdam this week. Everyone who has registered now should have received a copy of the meeting booklet as well as details of the open space sessions. Please contact Karl if you haven’t received these – but you can also find them in the BIK community (login first).

Cyberbullying session at the joint training meeting
As you know, there will be a session during the training meeting which will focus on cyberbullying and, in particular, provide an opportunity for discussion to inform the upcoming EC action plan against cyberbullying. Before attending this session, SICs are asked to give some consideration to the following questions:

1.    Is there one (or several) definition(s) of cyberbullying that are commonly used in your country? If so, which one(s)?

2.    Can you let us know about the most significant and most recent developments around cyberbullying in your country:

a)    National policies/legislation 
b)    Research
c)    Innovative/impactful education and awareness-raising resources
d)    Key organisations/partnerships/initiatives/campaigns
e)    Other developments that you consider critical in this space (e.g., providing support, raising awareness, holding online platforms accountable, etc.)

3.    Considering points 1 and 2, where do you see critical needs/gaps to be addressed (beyond funding) in fighting cyberbullying at national and EU level? 

*We have put together a short template to help capture responses and have pre-populated with some of the information that we already have. Templates for each country can be accessed here; please feel free to fill out your country template in preparation for the session. Many thanks to all those who have already accessed these. 

The next early warning meeting for awareness centres will take place Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 14:00 CEST; use this link to join the meeting. All colleagues are welcome regardless of whether you have anything to share. 

For further information on any aspect of awareness early warning meetings, please contact Karl.

There will be an online meeting for helplines on Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 09:00 CEST. The meeting will hear from Elliot Taylor, the CEO of Throughline. Throughline is used by many social media platforms (e.g., Discord) and other platforms and apps,and provides a direct link to a helpline or support service which is local to a user who needs help. Some Insafe helplines are already included in their directory, but others are not, and we thought it would be useful to provide an opportunity for helplines to hear more about the service and how it works so that they could potentially be included. You can use this link to join the meeting. Please contact Karl if you need further information or if you have any questions.

An online meeting with Meta will take place on Wednesday, 9 April 2025 at 11:00 CEST. It will provide an opportunity to hear about some of the latest tools for privacy and security which have been launched, as well as a chance for questions and discussion. Use this link to join the meeting. If you need any further information, please contact Karl.

The next early warning meeting for helplines will take place on Friday, 2 May 2025 at 11:00 CEST; join the meeting using this link. For further information on any aspect of the helpline early warning meetings, please contact Karl.

SID 2025 reporting
This is a kind reminder that SIC SID reporting templates (including a blog article on SID successes) are now overdue, thanks to all SICs which have submitted them. If you still need to report, please do so urgently now via the BIK community assessment tools (login first). This is required for campaign reporting to the EC, and it is important that your SIC's data is included.

SID 2026
This is a reminder that the 2026 edition of Safer Internet Day will again take place across the full month, with a global day of celebration on Tuesday, 10 February 2026 (a save the date logo can be downloaded from the BIK community; login first).

If you have questions on any aspect of the Safer Internet Day campaign, please contact saferinternetday@betterinternetforkids.eu.

The next edition of the BIK bulletin will be published at the end of March 2025, with news on the recently published BIK+ strategy evaluation and a round-up of Safer Internet Day actions. As always, we also invite Safer Internet Centres (and their partners) to contribute with general articles on news, resources or events. The content deadline is COB on Monday, 24 March 2025. All contributions or queries should be addressed to content@betterinternetforkids.eu.

As a reminder, we generally suggest that articles should be 300 - 600 words in length (but longer focus pieces are fine too), along with copyright-cleared images/photographs/logos if appropriate. The BIK team reserves the right to edit contributions for house style etc., but we try to keep this to a minimum.

Articles
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Platform drop-in session at the joint training meeting
We will be hosting a short platform drop-in session over the lunchtime period (12:00 - 13:15) at the joint training meeting in Amsterdam on Thursday, 20 March 2025. Pop along to the registration desk with any queries, and Annarita and Sarah will be on hand to provide support. 

Please also remember that we can schedule short online support calls at any time. Please use the contact form on the BIK platform or contact the BIK support mailbox in the first instance, and we will schedule a call at a mutually convenient time.

Please note the updated URLs for the new BIK platform:

• 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; #SIF2024, #SaferInternetForum
• 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; #Pledge2Youth
• Safer Internet Day (SID):
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/saferinternetday; #SaferInternetDay; #SID2025; #SID2026
• Media literacy campaign:
  better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu/en/media-smart-online; #MediaSmartOnline
• Child and youth consumer protection campaign:
  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