Better Internet for Kids

"ZigZaga on the Net. New Adventures" is the adventure book inspired by the stories from the second season of the "ZigZaga on the Net" podcast.
The "ZigZaga na Net podcast" and its books are a project born from the partnership between the Awareness Centres - Safe Internet Centre (CIS) of the National Center for Cybersecurity (CNCS) and SeguraNet of the General Directorate of Education (DGE) - and Rádio Zig Zag (RTP).
The main characters are the digital leader Benjamin, his friends Lara and Pedro among others and a cyber team of digital friends - INES, PISCA and LUZINHA.

The Activity Collection contains :
- on the left the resource with the activity descriptions and among others the instructions and objectives for the different activities.
- on the right you will find the activity sheets which contain the instructions on how to use the material with the children.

The different activities are numbered and colour-coded according to their class level (2, 3 or 4).

On the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2023, we have prepared a handbook with tips on how to celebrate and organise this day in cooperation with the JSNS, helplines of Linka bezpečí and Dětské krizové centrum, the Police of the Czech Republic, and the Palacký University in Olomouc.

The video spot was created especially for the project, showing the struggle a cyberbullying victim goes through every day at school and at home. The video can be easily adapted as there is no dialog, just a powerful message at the end. The main character is a girl coming from an ethnic minority.

We created a place in which children can communicate to discover both new things about internet, as well as ways to resolve online conflicts. By the atmosphere created here
we help to create feelings of peace and trust, to provide time and space for children to learn how to manage or self-regulate their emotions or behavior in response to o
unpleasant situation in the online environment.

The My Body - my bondaries (Mun keho mun rajat) guide is intended for young people aged 13−17. The guide explains what sexual violence against children in the online environment is and highlights important points about sharing nude photos in a consensual relationship with a peer. The guide gives action instructions for, for example, situations where a young person's nude photo is circulated and an adult approaches the young person in a sexual manner online. The guide was first published in Finnish, which was edited into a plain language version.

In cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, Nummer gegen Kummer e.V. has developed a "school box" / box for schools that teachers/schools can order free of charge on our website. The box contains various materials, such as information materials (flyer, poster, infocards) as well as giveaways (sticker). Additionally, a teaching conception can be downloaded on the helpline’s website. Teachers can use it in class to discuss how to deal with worries and problems.

Each team has a deck of 14 cards. From these, the children draw cards, looking at what concept is on them, so that the mentor does not know what they have drawn. The aim is for the children to collectively tell their mentor what they have drawn and the mentor has to guess the concept. These could be words, concepts, platform names, word associations, anything related to safe internet use.

We prepared a cybersecurity quiz for the kids. We made it interactive through Kahoot. We recommend it because the children can see the questions on the projector and answer them on their own devices. After every single question the children and the quizmaster discuss the right answer. The children are explained why they should chose that actual answer and what it actually means.

31% of 11-18 year olds have been exposed to racist content on their networks and 25% to hate speech related to religion. Incitement to hatred, violence or racial discrimination is an offence punishable by law.

InfoHunter - Online Hate Speech is a middle/high school interactive resource on online hate speech, to learn how to recognise and decipher online racial hate speech. Based on an explanatory video, this course helps teenagers acquire the right reflexes to recognise online hate speech and decipher the mechanisms on which it is based.