Better Internet for Kids

From group chats to gaming servers, today’s youth connect, learn and grow through online relationships. But alongside connection comes some risks: cyberbullying, grooming, peer pressure, and more.

This new BIK MOOC (massive open online course), Helping kids build and manage healthy online relationships, offers practical guidance for educators, youth workers, and caregivers to navigate these challenges with care and confidence. Starting on Monday, 6 October 2025 and continuing across 5 self-paced weeks, course participants can explore real strategies, discover ready-made tools, and join a European community of professionals facing similar challenges. The MOOC will be delivered in English.

Further information and online registration are available here.
 

Each year, for the entire month of October, hundreds of activities take place across Europe, including conferences, workshops, trainings, webinars, presentations and more, to promote digital security and cyber hygiene.
 

It celebrates  the rich variety of our world's cultures, our forms of expression and ways of being human. Tolerance recognizes the universal human rights and fundamental freedoms of others. People are naturally diverse; only tolerance can ensure the survival of mixed communities in every region of the globe.

Harmonised national laws and international cooperation are essential to improve prevention, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators. The European Day helps to raise awareness to that end.

It was created to promote international togetherness, awareness among children worldwide, and improving children's welfare.

The Safer Internet Forum (SIF) is a key annual international conference in Europe where policymakers, researchers, law enforcement bodies, youth, parents and caregivers, teachers, NGOs, industry representatives, experts and other relevant actors come together to discuss the latest trends, opportunities, risks and solutions related to child online safety and making the internet a better place. The Forum will take place in a hybrid* format on Thursday, 4 December 2025, with a theme of Why age matters: Protecting and empowering youth in the digital age.

The Forum will discuss how to ensure age-appropriate online experiences through a proportionate and children’s rights-centric approach. The discussion will include age assurance methods, as well as other complementary tools, to support parents in making responsible choices, with some focus on video games. The discussions will contribute to the priority of the European Commission, as expressed by President von der Leyen, to further strengthen the protection of minors online. SIF will bring together a variety of public and private stakeholders, including children and young people, to discuss the current state of play across and beyond the European Union, and look forward to future developments.

As in previous editions, SIF will enjoy a youth-led format: the event is organised with the support of a Youth Advisory Group (YAG), which will work alongside EUN’s BIK Coordination Team and the European Commission to prepare the SIF programme, and the role of children and young people in particular. During the Forum, the sessions will be animated by the SIF Youth Panel, composed of young people from the national youth panels of European Safer Internet Centres and children from the EU Children’s Participation Platform. Young people will express their views and share their positive experiences online, as well as their challenges, when using digital services with many other stakeholders, such as policymakers, industry, civil society, academics, parents and educators.

Onsite participation is by invitation only; there are no restrictions on online attendance.

Updates on this year's Forum will be shared on our social channels (LinkedIn, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter)) and in the next edition of the BIK bulletin.

It commemorates the anniversary of one of the world's most groundbreaking global pledges: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This landmark document enshrines the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, language, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

Safer Internet Day (SID) 2026 will be marked by a global day of focus on Tuesday, 10 February 2026, and events and activities will take place throughout the whole month, across Europe and the globe! Under the theme of "Together for a better internet", this annual celebration calls upon all stakeholders to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, especially for children and young people.

Discover more about Safer Internet Day.

Follow the celebrations on social media with #SaferInternetDay and #SID2026 to learn how to get involved.