In this section of the BIK portal, we collect a range of publicly available good practice guides (GPGs). These documents aim to highlight good practices, case studies and developments in key areas of work and policy concerning the BIK initiative.
2025
Reaching and engaging with very young children (March 2025)
By providing best practices for engaging young children in digital learning, this Good practice guide aims to empower families, educators, and communities to ensure that every child - regardless of background - has the skills and support needed to thrive in the digital age.
This guide provides practical strategies, approaches, and tools to help early childhood professionals and families engage with very young children in developing essential digital literacy and online safety competences. Recognising that young children learn differently from older age groups, this guide highlights developmentally appropriate methods that focus on play, storytelling, interactivity, and real-world connections to make digital literacy accessible, engaging, and meaningful.
2024
Evidence inspiring practice: Creating, pilot-testing, and evaluating evidence-based online safety interventions and awareness-raising campaigns (March 2024)
This guide aims to inspire Safer Internet Centres to build on the wealth of their existing knowledge and expertise, and new insights and evidence, when creating and evaluating online safety interventions and campaigns.
The guide consists of several sections, starting with a literature review that explores and defines the term ‘evidence-based’ and how it can be implicated in developing campaigns and interventions. In addition, the section outlines various models and techniques for developing evidence-based practices. These are then discussed in the subsequent section, followed by the outline of a step-by-step approach based on the Intervention Mapping Protocol
(IMP).
Cyberbullying and 116 111 helplines (March 2024)
This good practice guide aims to improve cooperation between EU co-funded Safer Internet Centre helplines (part of the Insafe network) and other non-Insafe helplines which are running the 116 111 harmonised number and related online services. It provides information about cyberbullying and how to best support children and young people who have been or are being affected by it, and signposts to existing resources published by the Insafe network that can be used or referenced by other helplines, as well as parents, caregivers and educators,
as appropriate.
In addition, it offers suggestions for counsellors on how to provide specific support and guidance for young people who are victims of cyberbullying, including some case studies to exemplify the types of issues that helplines are dealing with.
2023
Classifying and responding to online risk to children (February 2023)
This guide sets out good practices by which professionals can respond constructively to the range of online risks of harm encountered by children in Europe. Its aim is to increase awareness of the risks and encourage the use of available tools and services to mitigate and remedy the resulting harms.
It includes an overview of the nature and prevalence of online risks encountered by children in Europe, classified according to the 4Cs of content, contact, conduct and contract risks, and in-depth examination of four case study risks: potentially harmful content online (a content risk); online sexual coercion and exploitation of children (a contact risk); online reputation (a conduct risk); and e-crime (a contract risk).
2021
Age-appropriate design with youth (March 2021)
This guide explores ways to meaningfully engage with and involve young people in codesign processes, and the rationale for adopting this approach. It will also highlight existing projects, initiatives and best-practice examples that are leading the way in shaping digital products and services to be more age-appropriate for youth, as well as paving the way for future products and services that consider and integrate age-appropriate design from their inception.
Children and young people with disabilities in an online world (March 2021)
Too many websites, applications, games and other digital services fail to meet universal design requirements to ensure accessibility. While there is a growing awareness of the importance of inclusivity and accessibility of online services and platforms, this is by no means universal and there is considerable disparity between different online environments.
It is clear that, like all children and young people, vulnerable groups are spending increasing amounts of time online, but the support networks around vulnerable children have not yet caught up with the reliance many of them have on their devices and the connectivity it brings them.
Learning from Safer Internet Centre (SIC) collaboration with non-EU organisations: The SIC+ pilot programme (April 2021)
In 2021, EUN and INHOPE jointly rolled out a SIC+ pilot programme with the overall aim:
- to foster knowledge sharing and capacity building on successful initiatives on online safety for children and young people, at regional and/or global level,
- to promote the development and implementation of innovative actions to increase the participation of third-country organisations in online safety initiatives and best practices, in particular education programmes and awareness-raising campaigns, as well as helpline and hotline services, while identifying possible areas for exchange and mutual learning,
- to address common challenges in the field of online safety for children and young people by promoting cooperation with the current Insafe-INHOPE network, aiming for a closer integration of these initiatives in global actions.
About BIK
The Digital Agenda for Europe aims to have every European digital. Children have particular needs and vulnerabilities on the internet; however, the internet also provides a place of opportunities for children to access knowledge, to communicate, to develop their skills and to improve their job perspectives and employability.