Better Internet for Kids

Safer Internet Forum 2025

Safer Internet Forum (SIF) 2025 will take place in a hybrid format in Brussels and online on Thursday, 4 December 2025, with a title of Why age matters: Protecting and empowering youth in the digital age.

The 2025 Safer Internet 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.

Participation on site is limited to 200 people; other participants can participate online*. There will be some booths outside the main meeting room, including one where interested participants can test, from an end-user perspective, the blueprint of the EU age verification app.

Registration is now open for online participation.

* Please note, this is a hybrid event. While we are only able to accommodate an invited audience onsite on this occasion, we welcome wide online attendance from all with an interest in creating a safer and better internet for children and young people.

For any queries, please contact the Forum organisers at saferinternetforum@betterinternetforkids.eu.