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Your safe place: Α support platform for children and teenagers
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:
Online grooming
The leaflet addresses the issue of online grooming, which is the act of luring children on the internet for sexual exploitation.
It explains the warning signs that may indicate a child’s involvement in a dangerous online relationship, and highlights the types of conversations that should raise adults’ concerns.
It also provides guidance on how to protect children from grooming and how to respond in cases of suspected or confirmed abuse.
E-learning course for children on internet safety
An interactive online course for children aged 7–10, teaching safe and responsible internet use.
Through six short missions (approx. 20 minutes each), children meet the Sieciaki characters and learn key principles:
Comic strip on grooming
The French hotline Point de Contact makes available to the public the comic strip "Lea plays in a network" (in French: "Léa joue en réseau").
Point de Contact annual report 2023
The reporting platform Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) has published its 2023 annual report on the volume of reports received and processed as well as on the trends observed in cybercrime. This report is also an opportunity to highlight the work carried out throughout the year 2023: activities, projects and awareness-raising.
Here are some key figures:
Point de Contact annual report 2024
The reporting platform Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) has published its 2024 annual report on the volume of reports received and processed as well as on the trends observed in cybercrime. This report is also an opportunity to highlight the work carried out throughout the year 2024: activities, projects, developing partnerships, awareness-raising and strengthening its institutional positioning in France and abroad.
Here are some key figures:
Practical guide on grooming
Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) provides the public with the practical guide "Grooming".
This resource provides a legal definition of grooming, based on three specific articles of the French Criminal Code that prohibit this practice, the sexual solicitation of a child by an adult. It also informs readers about the various situations that fall under this form of cyberviolence, as well as the methods commonly used by predators.
Poster: sexual harassment online
The poster on sexual harassment online informs young people about typical behavior of perpetrators and encourages them to defend themselves against sexual harassment on the internet. It explains what victims can do and lists contact points in case of problems.
Criminal Code - Section 18 (650/2004) Distribution of a sexually obscene image
Relevant sections of the Criminal Code cover various aspects on online child sexual abuse and exploitation, namely:
- Distribution of a sexually obscene image (Section 18),
- Aggravated distribution of a sexually obscene image depicting a child (Section 18a),
- Illegal display or distribution of an audiovisual programme to a minor (Section 18b),
- Possession of a sexually obscene image depicting a child (Section 18c),
- Sexually obscene marketing Section 20)
(Source: Criminal Code)
Portuguese Penal Code
Article 176º of the Portuguese Penal Code describes the crime related to pornography of minors, including the grooming of minors, production, distribution, and dissemination of media material, in addition to other actions considered under the law. Article 193° prohibits sharing images or other digital material without consent.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).
Entities responsible for implementation: Council of Ministers / Conselho de Ministros.
