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The EU Kids Online project aims to enhance knowledge of European children’s and parents’ experiences and practices regarding risky and safer use of the internet and new online technologies, and thereby to inform the promotion of a safer online environment for children. The project is funded by the EC Safer Internet Programme. The first EU Kids Online network started as a knowledge enhancement project in 2006. It finished in 2008, where a continuation of it EU Kids Online II commenced. In 2010, EU Kids Online III started, but this time as a Thematic Network. The Network is comprised of 33 countries from all over Europe.
Mission and Objectives
This multi-national thematic network aims to stimulate and coordinate investigation into the use of new media by children. It employs qualitative and quantitative methods to map European children's and parents' changing experiences of the internet, focusing on uses, activities, risks and safety. It also sustains an active dialogue with national and European policy stakeholders.
EU Kids Online Research
EU Kids Online for Cyprus
People working in this project
Yiannis Laouris
Elena Aristodemou
Tao Papaioannou