A conference on early childhood development of digital and media literacy took place on 30th of May in Sofia. The conference was organized by the Applied Research and Communications Fund (ARC Fund), coordinator of Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre.
Bulgarian young people asked Julie de Bailliencourt, Safety Policy Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Facebook, to collect less personal data from users. Teenagers also proposed that the team of Facebook, the most popular social media in Bulgaria, think about minimizing offers for friends’ search.
The international Safer Internet Day was celebrated on February 7, 2017 in over 100 countries in all continents. The Bulgarian main event with the slogan “Ot Teb Z@visi” (trans. Be The Change) took place in the child science center Muzeiko in Sofia.
In 2016, experts from the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre visited six different Bulgarian towns where they trained six new Cyberscout teams comprising more than 150 pupils. These teams will enter a competition among each other for the organization of the most useful and original activity, related to online safety, which is to be carried out in front of other children and teenagers in their hometown.
On September 29, 2016, over 260 employees of Telenor Bulgaria, assisted and trained by the experts from Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre, visited more than 60 schools across the country.
The Bulgarian Safer Internet Center (SIC), represented by Evelina Lafchiyska – the coordinator of the Helpline, and Anna Bratoeva – youth representative, delivered a workshop at the leading European child participation conference CATS – Children as actors for transforming society, which was held in Caux, Switzerland from 26 July to 1 August 2016.
The National campaign for counteracting contemporary models of gender-based violence, which started on the 17th September 2015, continues through long-term activities in schools across Bulgaria and through the dissemination of materials developed during its course through different media outlets.
The Internet Hotline of the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre, coordinated by the “Applied research and communications” Fund, received a certificate for its quality of work from the Board of the International Association of Internet Hotline Providers INHOPE.
