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Improving our knowledge

The Safer Internet Programme proposed the establishment of a knowledge base which will be gathering knowledge about existing and emerging uses, risks and consequences of online technologies for children's lives, including the technical, psychological and sociological aspects of online-related child sexual abuse. To this purpose the Safer Internet Programme funds projects such as EUKIDSOnline II and POG.

EUKIDSOnline II

As the Internet and new online technologies are becoming embedded in everyday life, pressing questions arise regarding their social implications and consequences. Children, young people and their families tend to be in the vanguard of new media adoption. However, they also encounter a range of risky or negative experiences for which they may be unprepared.

EU Kids Online II aims to strengthen the knowledge base regarding children’s and parents’ experiences and practices of risk and safety in their use of the internet and new online technologies in Europe.

Read the report on the latest findings of the EUKidsOnline II survey
Read the report on Social Networking, Age and Privacy and the Commission's press release
See full description of the EUKIDSOnline II project

EU NET ADB-Research on the intensity and prevalence of the Internet addiction risk among minors in Europe

The EU NET ADB project aims to evaluate the prevalence of borderline addictive internet use and internet addiction among European adolescents, and to explore the factors that lead children to develop addictive behaviour and its consequences

See full description of the EU NET ADB

POG - European Online Grooming Project

POG is the first European research project that will study the characteristics and behaviour of sexual offenders who have used the internet to groom young people. Researchers will conduct in-depth interviews with online groomers in the UK, Italy, Belgium and Norway.

The aim is to investigate the victim targeting practice of convicted online groomers. At the end of the project the consortium will provide information on offender practice to schools, parents, children and internet service providers.

See full description of the POG project

ROBERT

Risktaking Online Behaviour - Empowerment through Research and Training

The ROBERT project intends to make online interaction safe for children and young people. This will be achieved through learning from experiences of online abuse processes and factors that make young people vulnerable as well as those that offer protection.

See full description of the ROBERT project