Better Internet for Kids

The Greek Safer Internet Centre has launched "Your Safe Place", an innovative online platform designed especially for children and teenagers. Its mission is to strengthen safety, confidence, and responsible internet use by offering a friendly space where young people can find support, guidance, and a voice.

The platform stands out thanks to its simple design, easy-to-understand language, interactive tools, and visual content. It helps children and teenagers to:

The educational material "Your Rights Online" deals with children's rights on the internet and is aimed at school librarians and school counselors, as well as children and young people (age 10-16). The material can be linked to the Swedish curriculum and therefore also be used by, or together with teachers. The material contains: the Convention on the Rights of the Child, GDPR, algorithms, and information on where to find help and support. 

Is your teenage daughter or son making online videos on TikTok or Instagram? Are you wondering whether you should be on the lookout or just give them a LIKE?

This report describes the media education provided to young people by The Mannerheim League For Child Welfare in 2023, youth participation and their activities in digital environments. The main channels of MLL media education for young people are YouthNet (Nuortennetti.fi) and the social media sites of YouthNet, lessons given in schools, workshops and media surveys. We met 7 113 children and young people in our media education lessons. We discussed topics such as online bullying, balanced media use, gaming, digital friendship skills and respectful encounters.

A power point presentation aiming to explain to students what are the Algorithms and how they can get to recognize them. It is aimed to be used in the class by educators of 9-13 year old students. The presentation is accompanied by a lesson plan and a video available here: https://saferinternet4kids.gr/sid/sid-2024/material_sid_2024_e_st/

To support stakeholders willing to reach out to parents and raise awareness among this audience on e-safety issues children may face online, Child Focus and partners of the ESOI project have developed the ESOI prototype: a step-by-step guide to design a SafeOnline initiative in different national contexts.

A thematic issue of the web magazine Märka Last called Targalt internetis (Smartly on the Web). The magazine contains 12 articles that deal with children's rights online, children's exposure to harmful online content, cyberbullying prevention and intervention, young people and sexting, information on the work of Estonian hotline and Child Helpline.

The children help Detective Shadow with his investigation and become experts in uncovering cyberbullying cases themselves. During this mission, the class solves several riddles together with the Detective to find out the topic of the Training (cyberbullying) and the character responsible for the cyberbullying cases. The children have also the possibility to design their personal cyberbullying expert briefcase. At the end of this Training, they know how to take action against cyberbullying and how to stand up for others.

Videos aim to raise awareness among children and youngsters how their online activities can influence them. To encourage young people to think about their online behaviour on social media and how it can affect their life now and in the future six short videos where created by Latvian SIC together with the involvement of representatives of the Youth Panel, talented copywriter Reinis Piziks and popular Latvian influencers @niklavs Niklavs and @edgarfrsh EdgarFresh (their online names).

The following videos were developed:
1. Be balanced.
2. Respect others online.