Online radicalisation as a new challenge for Safer Internet trainings
- Awareness
- 30/06/2015
- Austrian Safer Internet Centre

At present, all educators, trainers or other people who work with children and digital technologies face the same situation. Digital media's ever-evolving challenges – such as users' fast changing online behaviour as well as a constant flow of new tools, new internet technologies and new ways of online communication – raise new questions and demand new solutions. Therefore, it is essential for people engaged in Safer Internet trainings to stay up to date and constantly gain expertise in new topics. Online radicalisation and online jihadism are among the most challenging topics from recent months.
- Why are young people interested in jihadism and willing to join this new movement
- How does online recruitment work?
- How should one (as a friend or teacher) react if they see a young person rapidly moving in this particular direction?
- How to deal with young people who have come back from Syria?
- Many professionals in the field lack the experience on how young people use the internet for communication and how online radicalisation can be found on a daily basis. Being internet experts, we can contribute to those questions by explaining the digital world of young people to others.
- Working with network partners allows us to pass on specific questions raised in Saferinternet.at trainings to experts. We are neither experts on the Muslim world, nor do we have expertise on second or third generation migrants in Austria and their experiences with society. We refer questions regarding these topics to partners from specialised organisations or the police.
- How to assess/verify information provided by an online source?
- How to trust online experts?
- How to find reliable online sources?
Austrian Safer Internet Centre
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