Youth panel of the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre is a voluntary structure which exists as a successful form of youth participation since 2010. Its members are young people aged 14-18 who meet face-to-face regularly (at least once per month) to develop their digital and media skills and play an important role in the initiatives and the events, organized by the Bulgarian SIC and its partners.
Bulgarian children aged 9-17 start using the Internet from an increasingly early age and also increasingly larger share of them use mobile devices. However, about half of them admit that they can not judge whether what they read on the Internet is true or not.
The Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre initiated the CyberscoutTraining Programme, which uses peer-to-peer training methods for effectively popularizing the most dangeous online risks and the ways for combating them among 9-15-year-old Bulgarian children.
On the February 8, 2004, the Insafe network marked the first International Safer Internet Day. This holiday is part of the efforts of the international network to guarantee a safer internet for all users, and most notably for the younger ones.
This project aims to counteract the widespread and everyday use of disrespectful and discriminative speech, which kids and teenagers frequently encounter in traditional media and online.
#облечисебе (Dress up) is a campaign, developed by the Bulgarian Safer Internet Center in partnership with teenagers from 6 Sofia schools. It aims to fight the stereotype that people can collect likes and be popular on the Internet only if they upload provocative and revealing pictures.
Almost all men in the world, event if they are not biological parents, have a relationship with children in the role of step-fathers, brothers, uncles, teachers, coaches or just friends. But not all of them can fulfil this role to a sufficient degree.
