How to identify phishing
This leaflet helps readers understand what phishing is and how to recognise common warning signs.
It explains how scammers use fake emails, messages, or websites to steal personal information, passwords, or financial details.
The guide provides simple tips for staying safe online, verifying suspicious messages, and reporting scams, empowering users to protect themselves and their data.
Poster: Talk to your dad or your mom
The poster with the message “Talk to your dad or your mom” is designed for young children and has a warm, friendly, and reassuring tone.
Using simple language and child-friendly illustrations, it encourages children not to keep secrets that make them feel scared, uncomfortable, or upset online. The main message is that they are not alone and can always ask for help from their parents or another trusted adult.
The goal of the poster is to promote a sense of safety, trust, and open communication.
Parental control tools
This page presents the main parental control tools available across devices, platforms, and apps.
It provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how parents can activate, customize, and manage these tools to help protect their children online.
The information is practical, easy to follow, and designed to support families in creating a safer digital environment.
Brochure for parents: "Screen-free from zero to three!"
The brochure “Screen-free from zero to three!” contains ten tips for parents and guardians of children between the ages of 0 and 3 on how to deal with smartphones, tablets and other devices in everyday family life. It is available in German, English, Turkish, Arabic and Farsi.
AI: courage instead of myths
The brochure debunks common myths about AI, explaining what it can and cannot achieve.
Artificial intelligence has long been a part of our everyday lives.
Nevertheless, many half-truths, myths and fears surround AI.
This brochure debunks the biggest AI myths, illustrates its limitations, and explains why it is important to engage with it. The brochure aims to support young people in particular to use AI sensibly.
Youth Internet Monitor 2026: which social networks do young people in Austria use?
The Youth Internet Monitor 2026 presents current data on social media use among young people in Austria.
The Austrian Safer Internet Center inquires each year:
Which social networks do young people in Austria use?
Which platforms are trending, which get less important?
Are there differences between girls and boys?
The survey was conducted in October/November 2025.
500 young people between 11 and 17 years old were asked.
AI chatbots as everyday companions for young people
This infographic presents the key findings of the 2026 study “AI chatbots as everyday companions for young people.”
The study "AI chatbots as everyday companions for young people" reveals that AI chatbots play an important role in the daily lives of young people. 94 per cent of 11- to 17-year-olds in Austria use AI chatbots, with ChatGPT being the most popular. However, the risks are often underestimated.
The infographic shows the key findings of the study, which was conducted in October/November 2025.
Factsheet on disinformation
Nowadays, disinformation can spread faster than ever. Social media platforms and messaging services enable the large-scale sharing of false information, often automated and supported by artificial intelligence (AI), making it appear surprisingly authentic.
Given the growing scale of the phenomenon, government authorities, research institutes, and even the European Union (EU) have been addressing this issue for several years. Numerous campaigns aim to inform and raise public awareness.
Guide for parents: how to protect children from online exploitation
The guide provides parents and caregivers with clear information and practical steps to help them recognise online child exploitation, including warning signs that every parent should recognise.
Its aim is to support parents and caregivers in identifying visible signs and changes in their child’s behaviour. The guide also offers practical advice on how parents and caregivers can support their children and explains where and how to report cases when a child is a victim of online abuse or exploitation.
AI misuse and nudification
This resource is a sequence of three lesson plans for use with learners aged 13-17.
This resource explores generative AI and how it can be misused, with a specific focus on using generative AI to edit a photo of somebody to make them appear nude or naked, which is sometimes called "nudification".
The resource includes three lesson plans, which cover:
