Better Internet for Kids

Nowadays children grow up surrounded by technology and develop from an early age the ability to be online alone. Today, more than ever, it is necessary to alert them to the risks and, at the same time, make them aware of digital safety. Thus, ZigZaga na Net podcast was launched in 2019, combining entertainment and education. 

ZigZaga na Net is a Zig Zag Radio podcast in collaboration with some of the partners of the Portuguese Safer Internet Centre Consortium: National Cybersecurity Centre, the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Directorate-General for Education.

The Protect and support guide is aimed at the parents of 11–17-year-olds. It has information on sexuality, sexual education, safety skill education, and child sexual abuse. The guide has advice on how a parent can help keep their child safer online and how to act if a child discloses an experience of sexual abuse. The Protect and support guide also includes information on the Finnish Hotline Nettivihje and on how to report to the hotline.

An e-book from Childnet translated into Greek. Additional themes covered include: Using images online, Keeping personal information safe, the identity of other internet users, password sharing, and in-app purchasing.

These are milestones of the methodological material: how do social networks work and what impact do they have on us? In order to educate conscious and responsible users of media information, students should understand the importance of considering the target audience, quality, authenticity, credibility, and potential impact or consequences of the message.

This methodological material is designed to help you look at the messages created by the media "from within" in order to make it easier to understand how the media can mislead us by creating bubbles of false information, which in turn help to form a misconception about reality. How to identify misleading information and how to react to it, to reduce its negative impact?

This methodological material is designed to help you look at the messages created by the media "from within" to make it easier to understand how the media can mislead us into creating bubbles of false information, which in turn helps us to form a misconception about existing reality. This lesson will help to teach how to recognize misleading information and how to respond to it, to reduce its negative impact.

This methodological material is designed to help the media look at the “inside” of messages, so that it can be easier to understand how the media can mislead us by creating bubbles of false information that lead to misconceptions about existing reality. This media literacy methodological material will help to learn how to recognize and react to misleading information and reduce its negative impact.

"New Alphabets to combat inequalities" is the title of the debate that involved institutions, companies and schools as protagonists at the Ministry of Education on Wednesday 1 December 2021 at the Ministry of Education. Promoted by Save the Children in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, as part of the Safer Internet Center - Generazioni Connesse project, the aim was to encourage a discussion on how to do digital education today in the dialogue between experts, schools and young people .

The Youth Panel of Giffoni Film Festival have made documentaries for Generazioni Connesse. 

We have prepared a leaflet for young people explaining which challenges are positive and which are negative, and which challenges we should tackle but which we would be better off leaving out. At the moment, only the online version of this leaflet is available. The online version is disseminated through the Safe.si website and posted on Facebook and Instagram. We also included this leaflet in SID 2022 online package for schools. Our goal is to reach as many young people as possible. The leaflet is therefore available online as a PDF and can be downloaded easily and free of charge.