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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.

Members of the Bulgarian SIC’s Youth panel represented Bulgaria at two important international forums which took place in Brussels. Simona Valeva participated actively at the European Safer Internet Forum which took place on 20 November and Mina Boneva participated in discussions of young people with Members of the European Parliament and other senior officials at an event the celebration of the international Children's Rights Day co-organised by European Parliament, UNICEF and Eurochild, which took place on the same date.

The conference "How to Teach Media Literacy at School - Methods and Practices", which took place on November 10th in Sofia, provided an opportunity to more than 80 teachers from all over the country to get acquainted with practice-tested methodologies for media literacy training for students from 1st to 12th grade. The first of its kind conference was co-organized by the Media Literacy Coalition in Education, the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, the Center for Safe Internet, and the Bulgarian-American Commission for Educational Exchange Fulbright.

What have in common “Blue whale”, “Momo”, “Doki doki” and “DELETED”? All four excite the children and teens’ imagination, increase drastically the appetite for auditorium of careless media and provoke panic among parents.