We are looking forward to seeing many of you at the joint training meeting in Amsterdam next week, which will have around 180 people attending. Everyone who has registered will receive a copy of the meeting booklet later this week. If you have not yet registered but plan to attend, or if you have any questions or need any further information about the meeting, then please contact Karl.

Cyberbullying session at the joint training meeting
You may have seen that we will have 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, which we will pre-populate 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.

As you may know, we are in the process of writing a good practice guide on working with very young children. We need to hear from you about any resources that you have that target this particular age group (children from 0-8), and also parents/caregivers and educators who work with them. Please share links to any resources or materials with Karl so that they can be included in the good practice guide by the close of business this Friday, 14 March 2025. Additionally, if anyone would be willing to provide feedback on the draft report, this would be very welcome too – again, please get in touch withKarl. 

Many thanks to everyone who attended the meeting last Friday – as usual, there was a really useful discussion. You can find the report from the meeting along with a link to the recording in the BIK community (login first).

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.

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 month of Safer Internet Day action has now come to an end; thank you for all your support.

SID 2025 reporting
This is a kind reminder that your SIC’s SID reporting template (including a blog article on SID successes) is due for submission by COB tomorrow, Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 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.

Please note - there is no offline version of the reporting form this year (following feedback, we will ensure this is enabled for the next edition of SID). In the meantime, these screenshots provide an overview of what is required (in the BIK community; login first). Please note, also, that you can save the online form as a draft as many times as you need to before finally submitting it. 

SID 2026
As the 2025 edition draws to a close, 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
Recently published articles include:

• Global Safer Internet Day celebrations: Albania's activities (SIC AL)
• Portuguese Safer Internet Day seminar 2025: Shaping digital citizens of tomorrow (SIC PT)
• Safer Internet Day 2025 in Spain (SIC ES)
• In the spotlight: Safer Internet Centres Finland and Luxembourg

Need some support?
Please contact the BIK content mailbox with any article submissions or in case of any queries. (SIC AL)

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.

• YouTube contact for removal of problematic content being used to harass minors (posted by SIC HR)

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