Better Internet for Kids

The Media Compass forms the basis for successful media education in schools. It shows how every teacher and every subject or module can contribute to the development, promotion and deepening of media skills. It thus offers teachers, educators and students a theoretical and practical framework of orientation.

The purpose of the Media Council for Children and Young People's ethical guidelines is to secure children's rights in the digital environment. The guidelines are about the measures that digital services must take if they want to comply with children's rights. It is based on existing challenges for children's rights on digital media:

The Media Education framework is structured to offer a comprehensive approach to digital media in the national educational context. It encompasses ten educational principles for media use, objectives for digital skills development by school cycle, a curricular approach to media, and a methodological glossary.
(Source: Media Education Framework).

Entities responsible for implementation: National Team for Citizenship Education / Equipa Nacional de Educação para a Cidadania.

Media literacy in Finland is the media literacy policy and the national media education policy document, published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in 2019. The document updates and extends the cultural policy guidelines for media literacy published in 2013.

The National Action Plan (NAP) for child and youth participation is responsible for further developing the federal government’s youth strategy, focusing on effective participation methods. It ensures youth participation through a dialogue process with children, adolescents and young adults. The initiative is available at all levels: municipal, state and federal.  It plans to develop recommendations for effective child and youth participation in Germany  by 2025 .
(Source: https://jugendstrategie.de/nap/).

In 2020, a new subject called Digital Culture was introduced in the National Core Curriculum in Hungary, replacing the previously titled subject of Informatics. This subject is compulsory from 3rd to 11th grade and aims to enhance learners' digital citizenship skills.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).

Entities responsible for implementation: Ministry of Education, Educational Authority.
 

The National Council for Child Protection with consultative and coordination functions was established in 2016 at the State Agency for Child Protection.

The National Cybersecurity Strategy 2020-2025 (Εθνική Στρατηγική Κυβερνοασφάλειας 2020-2025) is responsible for setting and implementing timely and preventive responses to protect the country against cyberattacks. It includes actions to raise awareness of personal data protection, particularly focusing on children. 
(Source: National Cybersecurity Strategy).

Entities responsible for implementation: National Cyber Security Authority of the Ministry of Digital Governance.
 

The National Framework for Children and Young People’s Participation in Decision-making  supports government departments, agencies and organisations to improve their practice in listening to children and young people and giving them a voice in decision-making. It was developed as a collaboration between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Hub na nÓg and Professor Laura Lundy of Queens University, Belfast.

The National Observatory on Childhood and Adolescence (Osservatorio Nazionale per l'Infanzia e l'Adolescenza) is a national body that coordinates national, regional, and local associations, and non-governmental organisations targeted at children.