About our SID activities
With Safer Internet Day 2025, digital education rhymes with positivity. The concept of online safety is enriched by the notion of a better internet. The starting point is to highlight the advantages of the internet, and inspire users to surf responsibly and with curiosity.
By highlighting the advantages of critical use of the internet, we can make young people aware of the pitfalls. We need to equip children and encourage young people to think about the consequences of their actions on the internet, so that they learn to manage the risks and maximise the opportunities of their online experience.
What we are doing to create a better internet...
The Belgian Safer Internet Centre is organising an online meeting (webinar) targeting experts from the media literacy field on artificial intelligence (AI) and how to address this issue positively with young people;
AI in everyday life: what are the issues for children and teenagers?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping our lives and those of young people. How does AI fit into their lives? How do they appropriately interact with these new tools? What are the basics that professionals need to know about AI? What issues do these technologies raise? And what are the new educational challenges? Find out all about this during the webinar organised as part of Safer Internet Day!
Programme
9.15am - 11am: Understanding AI
How do these technologies work? Let's work together to decipher their mechanisms so that we can unravel their mysteries and make better use of them.
- Pieter Duysburgh, Operational Manager (Kenniscentrum Data en Maatschappij)
- Laura Zander, doctoral student and lecturer in communications (UCLouvain)
Two practical tools
- Alyson Hernalesteen, Research Assistant (UNamur)
- Len Buggenhout, EDUbox contributor (VRT)
11am - 11.15am: Break
11.15am - 12.30pm: Digital well-being and AI
What relationship do young people have with AI? What are the challenges associated with these new uses?
- Pascal Minotte, psychologist and co-director of the CRéSaM (Mental Health Reference Centre)
- Maxime Résibois, project manager and doctor in psychology (CRéSaM)
- Chloé Tran Phu, Project Manager (Média Animation)
- Laura Vandenbosch, professor at the Media Psychology Lab (KU Leuven)
- Aurélie Gillen, doctoral student (UAntwerpen)
About us
Through media literacy initiatives for professionals, a helpline for all e-safety-related issues and problems and a hotline for child sexual abuse material, Betternet, the Belgian Safer Internet Day committee, works towards a better internet for all children in Belgium.
Belgian SIC, is a consortium of four partners between Child Focus, Média Animation, Mediawijs and the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation aux médias. Together we have run the Safer Internet Day in Belgium for more than 10 years.
About our SID activities
With Safer Internet Day 2025, digital education rhymes with positivity. The concept of online safety is enriched by the notion of a better internet. The starting point is to highlight the advantages of the internet, and inspire users to surf responsibly and with curiosity.
By highlighting the advantages of critical use of the internet, we can make young people aware of the pitfalls. We need to equip children and encourage young people to think about the consequences of their actions on the internet, so that they learn to manage the risks and maximise the opportunities of their online experience.
What we are doing to create a better internet...
The Belgian Safer Internet Centre is organising an online meeting (webinar) targeting experts from the media literacy field on artificial intelligence (AI) and how to address this issue positively with young people;
AI in everyday life: what are the issues for children and teenagers?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly shaping our lives and those of young people. How does AI fit into their lives? How do they appropriately interact with these new tools? What are the basics that professionals need to know about AI? What issues do these technologies raise? And what are the new educational challenges? Find out all about this during the webinar organised as part of Safer Internet Day!
Programme
9.15am - 11am: Understanding AI
How do these technologies work? Let's work together to decipher their mechanisms so that we can unravel their mysteries and make better use of them.
- Pieter Duysburgh, Operational Manager (Kenniscentrum Data en Maatschappij)
- Laura Zander, doctoral student and lecturer in communications (UCLouvain)
Two practical tools
- Alyson Hernalesteen, Research Assistant (UNamur)
- Len Buggenhout, EDUbox contributor (VRT)
11am - 11.15am: Break
11.15am - 12.30pm: Digital well-being and AI
What relationship do young people have with AI? What are the challenges associated with these new uses?
- Pascal Minotte, psychologist and co-director of the CRéSaM (Mental Health Reference Centre)
- Maxime Résibois, project manager and doctor in psychology (CRéSaM)
- Chloé Tran Phu, Project Manager (Média Animation)
- Laura Vandenbosch, professor at the Media Psychology Lab (KU Leuven)
- Aurélie Gillen, doctoral student (UAntwerpen)
About us
Through media literacy initiatives for professionals, a helpline for all e-safety-related issues and problems and a hotline for child sexual abuse material, Betternet, the Belgian Safer Internet Day committee, works towards a better internet for all children in Belgium.
Belgian SIC, is a consortium of four partners between Child Focus, Média Animation, Mediawijs and the Conseil supérieur de l’éducation aux médias. Together we have run the Safer Internet Day in Belgium for more than 10 years.
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