Better Internet for Kids

This resource provides useful information that teachers and educators can use in the classroom to support their students, as well as lesson plans. 

Swipe & Respect is an educational toolbox on online respect, boundaries, and gender stereotypes for professionals working with young people. The tool helps young people think critically about online behaviour, gender roles, and online gender-related violence such as hate speech, doxing, or the dissemination of private images. 

Through interactive case studies, dilemmas, and group assignments, themes such as power dynamics, digital safety, and empathy are made discussable in an accessible way.

Interactive quest-based lesson on recognising and responding to cyberbullying, designed and delivered by teenage members of the Children's Council to younger pupils in Ukraine. The material covers what cyberbullying looks like, how it feels, how to tell a trusted adult, and where to seek help. 

The lesson was delivered face-to-face in classrooms as part of a national peer-to-peer campaign in 2025-2026. 

The material is addressed to children aged 7 to 9.

Quest-format lesson for middle-school pupils on cyberbullying dynamics. It explores the roles of victim, aggressor and bystander, group chats and social media pressure, safe reporting and blocking, and available support channels. 

Developed and facilitated by peers from the Children's Council (2025-2026) in Ukraine.

The material is addressed to young people aged 10 to 15.

Quest-format lesson for senior pupils covering cyberbullying and its legal consequences, sextortion and reputational harm, digital footprint, bystander intervention, and mental-health impact. 

It includes a discussion on national reporting mechanisms. 

Co-designed and delivered by Children's Council members (2025-2026) in Ukraine.

This material is addressed to young people aged 15 to 18.

Cyberbullying is defined as the intentional and repeated insulting, threatening, or humiliating of a person via digital media. Because content spreads rapidly online and is difficult to remove, cyberbullying reaches a particularly wide audience. 

On the internet, victims are also exposed to attacks around the clock. Furthermore, perpetrators can act anonymously, which lowers inhibitions and often makes the attacks particularly severe.

This resource collects a series of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) that support parents, caregivers, teachers and educators.

Anyone who goes online will sooner or later be confronted with unpleasant content such as hate speech. To ensure children learn from the outset how to counter hate without fueling the conflict themselves, they need plenty of practice, education, and good role models. 

This handbook addresses precisely that need: it shows children and young people that they don't have to simply accept online hate, but can take action against it – for example, by responding skillfully!

For teachers and educators of students aged 9-12.

The SaferInternet.at website (part of the Austrian Safer Internet Centre) has a collection of practical teaching examples and exercises focusing on cyberbullying. 

Teachers and educators can use the case studies and scenarios provided to encourage discussions, start conversations, and practice appropriate responses.

Help, my child is being bullied on WhatsApp. What can I do as a parent?

In our parenting guide, we try to provide answers to the challenges of raising children in the age of the internet and mobile phones.

Do you have questions or would you simply like to know more? 
Then send an email to office@saferinternet.at with the subject line "Ask Barbara!".

Find more videos and information at www.fragbarbara.at

Discussions online are becoming increasingly heated. Sometimes they even escalate into outright hatred. 

How should we deal with this? Barbara provides some background information on how this situation arose and what can be done about it.

All episodes can be found at www.fragbarbara.at