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 workshop was called “Digital rights of young people – from local empowerment to global recognition” and its aim was to enable participants to reflect on the online challenges faced by young people from the children’s rights perspective, but also...

The original idea of the Luxembourg Safer Internet Centre BeeSecure to arrange a kind of “Mobile Clinique” for checking the security of mobile devices used by kids was adapted and for the first time implemented by the Bulgarian SIC on 21 June. More than 30 families received a free of charge check of the security of the mobile devices of their kids against a check-list with 10 indicators. More than half of them won green sticker for a “healthy” smartphone or tablet. The rest deserved only a red sticker for a device in need of cure. More free-of-charge checks by the Mobile Clinique are to...

The International Safer Internet Day was celebrated for the 12th time on February 10. Different events and initiatives were held in numerous schools, cultural centres, libraries and other organizations, united under the slogan “Together for a better Internet.” Two main events marking the Safer Internet Day took place in Sofia. The first was the official signing of the agreement for partnership on numerous joint initiatives between Telenor, the Ministry of Interior and the Bulgarian Safer Internet Centre. The cooperation aimed at the online safety of children will include an educational...

The team of the Safer Internet Centre from the Association Parents held a one-day training with the young people aged 16-19 from the Youth Parliament Gorna Oryahovica. The topic of the training was “Emotional Intelligence in Real and Virtual World as a Way for Dealing with Violence.” This topic is very important for the age of the participants, because emotions are among the key factors influencing the way we react in different situations. In the course of the training, the young people had an opportunity to increase their sensitivity towards different kinds of emotions and behaviours we...

On 8 October, 2014, the Applied Research and Communications Fund, together with the BMW Foundation and Enterprise Europe Network – Bulgaria, organized an Innovation Business Club meeting on cross-sector collaboration on green and social innovation. Dr. Ognian Shentov, Chairman of the Applied Research and Communications Fund, opened the forum by identifying the shared value concept as a new platform and instrument to collaborate across profit and nonprofit boundaries. Mr. Markus Hipp, Executive Director of the BMW Foundation, discussed the potential of social innovations for facilitating cross...

On 18th November, the important role of INHOPE in the global fight against online sexual exploitation of children was presented at the first National conference for children safety in Internet organised in Belgrade by the Serbian Hotline and the Ministry of trade and telecommunications of the Republic of Serbia. Serbia’s Hotline operated by Fond B92 invited representatives of the Bulgarian Hotline, operated byARC Fund, and the Cybersecurity Sector of the State Agency for National Security of Bulgaria to present their best practice of close co-operation in fighting child sexual abuse material...