5th International Conference "Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online"

For the 5th time already, the International Conference “Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online” was held on 20-21 September 2011 at Marriott Hotel in Warsaw.

The Conference was organized by the Polish (Nobody’s Children Foundation and NASK) and German (klicksafe) Safer Internet Centers, established within the European Commission’s Safer Internet Programme. The main partner of the conference was Orange Foundation.

The conference was held under the honorary patronages of:

- Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union,
- Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda,
- Katarzyna Hall – Minister of National Education of the Republic of Poland.

Here you can watch the Video of the Commissioner's speech.

The conference was targeted at representatives of the educational sector, NGO’s, justice and law enforcement agencies as well as Internet service and content providers. The objective of the event was to present the latest achievements in education on safety online and combating illegal web content. Speakers from Poland and abroad presented a number of innovative educational projects that aim at protecting the youngest users in the virtual world.

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Below you will find presentations of selected speakers (PDF):


DAY 1st

EU Safer Internet Policy – dr Michael Busch, European Commission, Luxembourg

Connecting generations: Should kids take the lead? – Dr Yiannis Laouris, Cyprus Safer Internet Centre, Cyprus

Online Grooming: Understanding offender behaviour and the victimisation of young people – prof. Julia Davidson, Kingston University, UK

Managing online identity in Social Networking Sites – Karl Hopwood, Insafe, Belgium

SchülerVZ - protection and awareness raising for young users – Ute Naumann, Schüler VZ, Germany

How to teach to stay safe in Social Communities – Stephan Stengel, klicksafe, Germany

A creative approach to educating about Internet Safety – Maija Katkovska, Latvian Safer Internet Centre, Latvia

Internet safety projects in Armenian schools – Narine Khachatryan, Media Education Center, Armenia

DAY 2nd

Young users at school – Janice Richardson and Karl Hopwood, Insafe, Belgium

Vulgarisms and youth language – dr Hilke Elsen, LMU/ Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich, Germany

Hate for Fun online culture: The new challenge for educators and carers – Georgi Apostolov, Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre, Bulgaria

Self classification system for online content providers – Martin Drechsler, FSM, Germany

Ochrona dzieci online: narzędzia ochrony rodzicielskiej testowane w ramach projektu SIP Bench II – Silvia Pietropaolo, Innova Europe, Belgia

Leading children to good websites – Lena Hilles, jugendschutz.net, Germany

Juuuport – online self-protection plat¬form for young people – Karin Wunder, juuuport, Germany