EU Awareness Nodes

EU Awareness Nodes Plus

Austria
The mission of Saferinternet.at is to empower citizens to use the Internet, as well as other information and communication technologies, safely and effectively.

Belgium
The Belgian node is a consortium of five partners including OIVO-CRIOC; Child Focus; Centre for Equal Opportunities and Opposition to Racism; Information and Advice Centre on Harmful Sectarian Organisations; and ISPA Belgium.

Czech Republic
The aim is to establish national awareness node to provide and manage awareness raising campaign in the Czech Republic.

Denmark
The Danish node for Internet safety awareness is coordinated by the Media Council for Children and Young People.

Finland
Save the Children coordinates the Children online project, which runs the children's Internet safety portal Tiukula.

France
The first aim of the CONFIANCE project is to raise awareness among children and the general public of the risks associated with internet use, to encourage responsible behaviour and to define appropriate online behaviour.

Germany
The klicksafe.de project includes: * The marketing campaign * The network * The website * Measures for specific target group

Greece

The objectives of SafeNetHomePlus and the Greek awareness campaign are to conduct a multi-channel awareness campaign to promote and inspire positive & critical thinking for safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, while addressing new threats and ways to prevent them.

Hungary
The consortium's strategy is: * Creating confidence by providing solutions, and guidelines for safe Internet usage for parents, teachers and grandparents. * Develop a more careful behaviour in children in connection with the dangers.

Iceland
The Icelandic awareness node is Heimili og skoli (Home and School), the National Parents´Association in Iceland.

Ireland
The National Centre for Technology in Education's (NCTE) main tasks are managing the implementation of the Government's ICT in Schools Programme, the development of ICT policy proposals and providing policy advice to the Department of Education and more.

Italy
EASY distributes a number of awareness or educational materials for kids, parents, teachers and delivers seminars for kids, parents and training sessions for teachers. A National help-desk is also active.

Latvia
The main objective of the Net-Safe Project is to facilitate safer use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). To achieve this, it is important that society, public bodies, industry and internet service providers (ISP) collaborate on imprroving it.

Lithuania
Safer Digital, the national awareness node for Lithuania helps children, parents and educators avoid the dangers associated with digital communication.

Netherlands
NaNSoS’ mission is to inform Dutch citizens about possible dangers of the internet, with the ultimate result that every Dutch citizen uses the internet in a safe manner.

Norway
The purpose of NoNo is to establish and act as the national awareness network node in Norway, and to empower all users so that they can use electronic media in a fun and positive way.

Poland
The aim of the Polish awareness node is to contribute to the implementation of the Safer Internet Action Plan, to reduce internet-related threats in Poland through education and the development of a prevention-system for Internet-based pedophilia and

Portugal
The project will set up a national node that will articulate with European and national networks/organizations engaged in raising awareness of safer use of the Internet and new online technologies, supported by a national website containing expertise

Slovenia
The Slovenian national awareness node, SAFE-SI (Safer Internet Programme in Slovenia) promotes and supports awareness aimed at the protection and education of children and teenagers using Internet and new online technologies.

Spain
The Spanish node, called SAFENET, is coordinated by Protégeles together with Terra Networks.

Sweden
The campaign “Det unga Internet” (The young Internet) will mainly focus on developing a Safer Internet tool-kit and organising conferences in different parts of Sweden. The tool-kit will gather existing useful resources from different national stakeh

United Kingdom
The Cyberspace Research Unit's missions are to: * empower children and young people with the tools, knowledge and skills they need to navigate safely in cyberspace; * explore how criminals use the Internet and to examine the implications

Australia
NetAlert Limited (NetAlert) is Australia's Internet safety advisory body. NetAlert's vision is a safer Internet experience, particularly for young people and their families.

United States of America - i-SAFE
i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere.

United States of America - NetSmartz
The NetSmartz Workshop is an interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) for children aged 5 to 17, parents, guardians, educators, and law enforcement.