On 11th February, together with over 150 countries worldwide, Bulgaria celebrated the International Safer Internet Day. Dozens of Bulgarian schools and libraries organised various initiatives and activities with the motto: “Together for a better internet”.
ТDuring the National Safer Internet Day the Bulgarian SIC will start the celebrations by awarding the winners of the annual National Cyberscout Competition held amongst 10-12 year old students by the Centre. Three Cyberscout teams will be present to receive their awards for the first three places in the competition.
Over 90 teachers from 34 cities and towns across Bulgaria participated in the conference “Holistic model for digital and media literacy development based on school curricula”. The conference took place in the city of Veliko Tarnovo on 22nd – 24th November 2019.
The Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre (SIC) took part in the annual open-air event for families “Famillathlon” for 11-th year in a row. Almost 4000 parents and their children joined the festivities on 12th May 2019 in the South Park in Sofia. The Centre’s team together with members of the SIC Youth Panel, raised their awareness about the most important aspects of internet safety through different interactive and amusing activities.
The Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre and the youth media Teen Station launched a campaign promoting positive online behaviuor and countering hate speech and Cyberbulling at the main event for celebration of the international Safer Internet in Bulgaria on 5th of February 2019.
The fourth season of the Bulgarian SIC’s Cyberscout programme has successfully finished. In 2018, 506 students were trained at 28 schools in 16 settlements in Bulgaria. The certified Cyberscouts raised awareness about online safety to more than 2,000 of their peers through their own attractive and original activities.
Members of the Youth panel of the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre had their first training session on media content creation on 24th of November. Evelina Pavlova-Blagoeva, famous Bulgarian radio journalist and TV host and creator of Teen Station online youth media platform was their first trainer on the subject.
Members of the Bulgarian SIC’s Youth panel participated with their own activities at Voice it national youth forum which took place on 20 November in Sofia. The youngsters revived their campaign against the naked selfies #DressUp and also presented for the first time their new campaign #YouAreTheHero, promoting positive behavior online and countering hate speech online and cyberbulliyng.
