This website is a result of a Socrates, Grundtvig 2 project, which started back in 2004. The first stage of the project, which was called “Development and initial implementation of an educational strategy on Internet safety for multipliers, teachers and parents”, was focused on the creation of common strategy and action plan for the informal education of European adult citizens on how to protect their children on the Internet.

The partnership that undertook this hard task initially consisted of three organizations from Bulgaria, Lithuania and Poland, working in the field of consumer protection and providing informal adult education. In the process of creation of the strategy, the project partners organized two workshops, conducted national needs analyses, and best practices research, focused on the common and specific aspects of the problem in the countries represented.

The second stage of the project - “Initial application of an educational strategy measures on children Internet safety for teachers and parents” stated  by joining new partners, in order to widen the European dimension of the project. The first organization that recognized our cause as its own, and joined the project was from Slovakia, and now we are expecting one more partner from the Czech Republic, to unite its efforts with ours.

Our Objectives

• To apply in practice efficient measures from commonly developed strategy for enhancing adult education that would lead to effective protection of Internet consumers (especially children) from possible harmful effects and dangers.
• To develop common educational modules for adult learning providers (training the trainer) according to problems and needs identified in the previous mutual project. To build up the expertise of partner organizations’ staff and their institutional capacity to inform and educate parents, teachers and media representatives.
• To empower and rise partners’ and teacher’s capability to prevent children abuse on the Internet. To give them free access to informal educational site with relevant important information on their native language;
• To elaborate an educational materials for parents and teachers
• To measure the effectiveness of the applied direct measures on raising the awareness of parents, teachers and institutions on the importance of coordinated efforts to prevent harmful effects (violence, racism, pornography, etc.) from the use of Internet.

The outputs:

• Parents’ Needs Analysis Assessment Report on Internet Safety in Participating Countries (link)
• Strategy for Parental Education for Protection of Children from the Internet Generated Risks (link)
• Detailed operational plan for the project activities implementation (2005-2006) (link)

What to expect from us till the end of the project:

• Development of educational tool for parents and teachers on internet safety (link)
• Implementation of a workshop
• Conduction of online inquiry
• Development of a unifying research tool (link)
• Development of educational tool for trainers on internet safety
• Dissemination of informational leaflets

Contacts

Coordinator:

Bulgarian National Consumers Association

Partners:

National Consumer Confederation- Lithuania

Association of Polish Consumers

Association of Consumer Organizations in Slovakia