Creating a safer connected world: Teachers, educators and professionals

KiDiCoTi – An exploration into families’ handling of emergency remote learning in the first lockdown

BIK Team

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission recently published new research into families’ digital lives and remote learning activities in 11 European countries during the COVID-19 lockdown in spring 2020. 

Raising awareness of disinformation through creativity and solidarity in Romania

Romanian Safer Internet Centre

Romanian children’s news consumption mostly revolves around the internet – 49 per cent of them say they use websites, while 26 per cent use social media to read the news – followed by conversations with their parents (39 per cent) and watching television (28 per cent).

Taking stock of the state of online safety ahead of Safer Internet Day 2021

Safer Internet Day Team

On Tuesday, 9 February 2021, we will join “Together for a better internet” to celebrate yet another edition of Safer Internet Day (SID) - though this time in a starkly different digital environment, compared to previous editions. Almost one year after the advent of the COVID-19 crisis and the changes it has brought about in our online habits, we review the new realities with regards to safety and well-being in the online sphere.

“A perfect face on the internet…” – Online conference on the impact of influencers in Latvia

Latvian Safer Internet Centre

Online celebrities, their lives, experiences and stories – do they affect lives of adolescents?  Is it worth listening to influencers and take their every advice? Can anyone become an influencer? In the online conference "A perfect face on the internet…" different experts tried to find answers to these and many other questions.

Preventing the negative impact of influencers on children and teenagers

Maltese Safer Internet Centre

As the popularity and success of paid social media influencers increases, their followers often not only want what the influencers have, but also to be them.

Dutch Media Literacy Network publish their report “Ten Years of Media Literacy Research”

Dutch Safer Internet Centre

The report “Ten Years of Media Literacy Research” is a summary of 90 studies that the Scientific Council of the Dutch Media Literacy Network has collected over the past two years. The Council brings together scientific knowledge about media literacy, determines where knowledge gaps lie and indicates what new research is needed.