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BIK Policy monitor report 2025 published: advancing the BIK+ vision across Europe
The Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy monitor continues to serve as a key reference for understanding how European countries are shaping a safer and more empowering digital world for children and young people. Now in its sixth edition, the 2025 report builds on over a decade of comparative policy tracking, providing valuable insights into the national implementation of the European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+), three years after its adoption.
First evaluation of the BIK+ strategy released: children’s voices and expert insights shaping Europe’s digital future
Three years after the adoption of the European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+), the first comprehensive evaluation of the strategy has been published, offering a landmark moment in understanding how Europe is progressing toward a safer, more empowering and inclusive digital environment for children and young people.
National Strategy for a Better Internet for Children in Cyprus 2018-2023
This strategy is an outcome of the Cybersecurity Strategy of the Republic of Cyprus, for the National Education/Information Program specifically for children, teachers and parents.
The first BIK+ strategy evaluation
It's officially been two years since the adoption of the BIK+ strategy, which aims to improve age-appropriate digital services and ensure that every child is protected, empowered, and respected online. We are now in the process of evaluating the strategy’s progress and successes over the past two years.
Resolution to Ensure Internet Safety for Kids
This Resolution sets the basis for implementing the Better Internet for Kids+ Strategy, supporting child protection, empowerment and youth participation.
(Source: BIK Policy Monitor 2024).
Entities responsible for implementation:
Chamber of Representatives/Chambre des Représentants de Belgique/Belgische Kamer van VolKsvertegenwoordigers
BIK Policy Monitor Report 2024 published
The Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Policy Monitor (previously the BIK Policy Map) has been tracking how European countries support children’s and young people’s digital experiences since 2014. Since its launch a decade ago, the main objective of this series has been to compare and exchange knowledge on policies and actions that promote children's safety and well-being in the digital environment based on the recommended measures of the European Strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (the BIK strategy).
In the spotlight: Safer Internet Centre in the Netherlands
As part of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Quality Assurance Programme (QAP), the Insafe-INHOPE Coordination Teams are jointly conducting a set of 15 country visits to national Safer Internet Centres (SICs) to better understand what is happening in the Member States: monitoring emerging issues and challenges, identifying good practices to be shared, and harvesting the results of the Better Internet for Kids (BIK) policy. On Tuesday, 23 January 2024, a national visit to the premises of Offlimits in Amsterdam was organised by the Insafe-INHOPE Coordination Team.
Giving young people a voice
The BIK+ strategy aims to promote the digital empowerment of young people, and France wanted to affirm its alignment with this European policy by proposing a SID 2023 campaign committed to this goal. For the first time in twenty years, the Safer Internet Day launch event gave a voice to a generation that is much talked about but not much listened to.
One year of BIK+
Exactly one year ago, on 11 May 2022, the European Commission adopted a new European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK+), to improve age-appropriate digital services and to ensure that every child is protected, empowered and respected online. Let’s take a look at further policy developments that have happened over the course of the past year.
