Better Internet for Kids

This 77-page guide provides parents with basic knowledge and advice on how to inform children about safe and responsible use of the internet. It offers information on how different age groups (pre-school, school, and adolescence) can use the internet and the risks they might be exposed to.

The Directorate-General for Education, through the SeguraNet Awareness Centre, produced a board game "Let's Discover the Digital World" aimed at Primary Education that promotes Digital Citizenship.
The game "Let's Discover the Digital World" includes 30 challenge proposals and 156 questions that aim to stimulate students' critical thinking, with the support of the SeguraNet mascots: Pisca and Luzinha.

Three videos were developed by Austrian’s helpline Rat auf Draht in order to raise awareness: It is not ok to share sexual explicit content. Young people have the right to say “No” and claim “without me”: leave us out of such behavior! These videos should encourage all young people not to suffer and ignore such behavior but stand up and tell all offenders: “Without me!”

The videos were developed for the project #besafeonline and can be found on the YouTube channel of helpline Rat auf Draht.

Video "Nicht mit mir! - Sexting - dein Foto gehört dir"

Point de Contact launches a compilation of comic strips dealing with various types of illegal content and situations online, such as : incest and dissemination of child sexual exploitation material, child grooming activities, sextortion activities, dissemination of non-consensual content involving minors or “revenge porn”, hate speech and apology for acts of terrorism.

We have created a decision tree for young people on online challenges. The decision tree helps young people assess whether the challenge is safe and reasonable to do.
The decision tree is available online as a PDF and can be easily downloaded for free. We have also included this resource in the SID 2022 online package for schools.

We have created a decision tree for young people with useful tips on how to respond when someone sends you a chain letter. The decision tree is available online as a PDF and can be easily downloaded for free. We have also included this resource in the SID 2022 online package for schools. The text (at the moment only available in Slovenian) needs to be adapted to local languages.

For young people we have created a quiz with 14 questions about online reputation. With this quiz, we want to check if young people have the knowledge on how to manage their online reputation and that of others. Each question is also followed by a detailed explanation of the correct answer. The quiz is distributed through the Safe.si website and through social networks such as Facebook and Instagram. We have also included this resource in the SID 2022 online package for schools.

For young people we have created a quiz with 9 questions about online challenges. Each question is followed by a detailed explanation of the correct answer. The main goal of this quiz is to motivate young people to think critically about the online challenges they encounter online and to assess whether it is safe to perform the online challenge. It is shared through the Safe.si website and through social media such as Facebook and Instagram. We have also included this resource in the SID 2022 online package for schools.

We have created a quiz on responsible use of social networks with 10 questions. Each question is also followed by a detailed explanation of the correct answer. With this quiz we want to motivate young people to use social networks more responsibly. It is distributed through the Safe.si website and through social networks such as Facebook and Instagram. We have also included this resource in the SID 2022 online package for schools.

Online friendship or abuse? Innocent questions or attempted grooming?
A self-help test at sos.drossinternets.lv helps to recognize grooming on the internet. Children and young people, as well as parents and educators are invited to fill out the self-help test developed by experts from the Latvian Safer Internet Centre, the State Police and State Inspectorate for the Protection of Children's rights to test how safe the online friendship is, to learn how to recognize grooming cases and where to seek for a help.

Tool available in English at en.sos.drossinternets.lv