Safer Internet trainings and conferences

"Safer Internet" conference in Łódź

The major goals of the Awareness programme in Poland involve publicizing the problem of Internet threats and improving the competence of professionals who work with children or deal with Internet offending. To meet these goals in 2005 and 2006 the Consortium FDN-NASK organized several conferences and training programmes addressed to professionals such as teachers, childcare providers, psychologists, law enforcement staff, ISPs and ICPs.

The FDN-NASK Consortium and its local partners have organized conferences on children's safety on the Web, under the "Safer Internet" banner. Such conferences have been held in provincial capitals in Poland, under the patronage of the Polish Minister of National Education and Sport, the Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration, the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Science and Information Technology, the Children's Ombudsman, the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection, the National Police Headquarters, the Polish Committee for UNESCO, and the Polish National Committee for UNICEF.

The conferences consisted of plenary sessions and workshop sessions. The educational workshops on safe Internet use were addressed to teachers and guidance counsellors, while the workshops on combating harmful and illegal content on the Internet were targeted at police and law enforcement staff.

The 16 "Safer Internet" conferences were attended by nearly 3000 professionals from all over Poland.

Thanks to the organizers' cooperation with the Association of Polish Consumers, the conferences were complemented with presentations on Internet users' consumer rights.

During the "Safer Internet" conferences held in 2006, representatives of the Association of Audio-Video Producers discussed issues related to protection of intellectual property on the Internet.

The provincial conferences were accompanied by outdoor educational events for children and their parents, co-organized with local partners.

 

"Safer Internet" conference in Warsaw

"Safer Internet" conference in Gdańsk