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cover of the brochure 'Sexuality, Violence, and Digital Media'
  • Resource
  • Austrian Safer Internet Centre
  • 21 November 2025

Sexuality and sexual violence online are relevant topics for educational professionals, not least because children and young people are often subjected to sexual harassment online. This makes it all the more important to have competent professionals available to answer questions on sexual topics and educate about risks, as well as provide support in cases of sexual violence. This handbook provides support in this area.

Cartoon boy smiling with open arms. Text says: “You can talk to me! Whatever it is, we are here for you.”
  • Resource
  • Greek Safer Internet Centre
  • 16 October 2025

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:

Helpline trends Q2, 2025
  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 25 September 2025

The Insafe network of helplines collects data about the calls received, and this is analysed every three months in order to look at possible trends and emerging issues.
A teenage girl looking sad, bracing herself and holding a smartphone
  • Article
  • BIK Team
  • 24 September 2025

The European Commission is actively working to combat online child sexual abuse, including sexual extortion. Sexual extortion is the blackmailing of a person with the use of sexualised images of that person in order to extort sexual acts or material, money, or other benefits from them under the threat of sharing the material without the consent of the depicted person (for example, posting images on social media).
A gorilla wearing a red baseball cap, holding a microphone and doing an interview. AI-generated.
  • Resource
  • Luxembourgish Safer Internet Centre
  • 11 August 2025

This short animated video illustrates how sextortion typically unfolds: a casual chat, an exchanged photo - then, suddenly, threats and blackmail. Using symbolic animal characters, the clip visualises how perpetrators build trust and then exploit it for money.

The core messages of the video are clear:

Four aligned boxes of increasing height and different colours with the writing "Knowledge hub: Rules and guidelines".
  • Rule and guideline
  • cyberbullying, cybersecurity, online reputation, digital and socia-cultural environment, media literacy education

The Screen‑Life‑Balance Action Plan is a national campaign by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Education focused on promoting a healthy balance between screen time and real-life activities for children and youth, through school regulations, public awareness campaigns, resource centers, and outdoor education initiatives. The plan contains recommendations for parents and planned measures for educational institutions.

(Source: Luxembourg - Policy monitor country profile, 2025).

  • Luxembourg

  • Implemented 2024 - 2027
  • BIK+ strategy pillar 1 - protection
Sextortion – Comic strips, Point de Contact
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 31 July 2025

The French hotline Point de Contact (part of the French Safer Internet Centre) makes available to the public the comic strip "Jules films himself online" (in French: "Jules se filme en ligne").

Point de Contact - Annual Report 2023
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 31 July 2025

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
  • Resource
  • French Safer Internet Centre
  • 31 July 2025

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: 

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