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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
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.
The project is operationalised according to four methodological principles:
(i) a critical approach is required to examine, test and qualify taken-for-granted assumptions regarding the nature, extent and interpretation of online risk, the nature and degree of children’s internet literacy and the effectiveness of parental regulation; (ii) a contextual approach is required to identify the social, cultural or individual factors that account for differential experiences of, and responses to, risk; (iii) a child-centred approach is required to recognise and inform the gap in perspectives and practices between adults and children; (iv) a comparative approach is required to identify and analyse similarities and differences in children’s online risk experiences across Europe.
EU Kids Online Research
EU Kids Online for Cyprus
People working in this project
Yiannis Laouris
Elena Aristodemou
Tao Papaioannou