Better Internet for Kids

Organisations including secondary schools and universities can now install the button on their website for free, allowing any user to make a report direct to Report Harmful Content. Legal but harmful material can make its way into all walks of life and quite often it’s difficult to know where to go to for help and support. Organisations can now actively direct their users to Report Harmful Content and help keep the spread of harmful material away from their users’ online experience.

This short video explains how to download and install the RHC button on organisation's website.

The TikTok Checklist provides all the information about the app and how to stay safe with questions such as:

What is TikTok?
How to stay safe on TikTok?
How to set up the parental controls?
How to block users on TikTok?
Where can I go for further support?

The leaflet was created by SWGfL and the UK Safer Internet Centre in collaboration with TikTok.

A specially designed page on the site of SaferInternet4Kids.gr provides information on the most common cyber fraud scams but also on the ways to identify and prevent them.

Unlike other sexual health resources, GOSH focuses on the online world and aims to give university students and other young adults a better understanding of online sexual health and how to have a healthy relationship with their own online sexual health. We know practicing good sexual health is encouraged throughout a young person’s life both on and off campus and we want to replicate this in the online sphere.

As part of the Media Literacy Week (MLW) communication plan we created a fifth annual Media Literacy Magazine "Mediataito 2022". It is done in a cooperation with almost 30 partner organisations and consists of information and ideas for several different target groups. This years publication is celebrating the tenth year of the Media Literacy Week.

We disseminate the magazine by mail free of charge for the educators registered in MLW. This was the first year we created also a web magazine for Mediataito. You can find it from the link below.

The collection of playful poems was created on the basis of an originally Austrian book ON-LINE ZOO, which introduces children of preschool and younger school age to the most common risks associated with the use of the Internet.

Young people are intensively concerned with their own image management, with how they are perceived by others. Social networks such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram in particular, but also messengers such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, provide a stage for this. However, the self-portrayal of young people on the Internet is not always only positive. By emulating seemingly unattainable role models, feelings of inferiority and envy can also arise. Cyber bullying is also not atypical in this context.

The handbook "Digitization and Climate" takes a closer look at the topic of environmental awareness in the digital world. It questions what the climate has to do with digital media and young people. The aim is to provide suggestions for conscious living in the area of tension between digitization and climate. It is important to know the connections between digitalization and climate and to be able to assess the consequences of one's own decisions and actions.

The Austrian awareness center Saferinternet.at inquires each year: Which social networks do young people in Austria use? Which platforms are trending, which get less important? The results are published with the Youth Internet Monitor (www.jugendinternetmonitor.at). The survey was conducted in November/December 2020 – after the second lockdown. Young people went to school and had more options to meet their friends. 400 young people between 11 and 17 years old were asked. The survey is representative of the younger generation of Austria.