klicksafe launches information campaign for more safety in the digital world during and after the Corona pandemic

The Corona pandemic has driven digitization enormously. Through home office and homeschooling, a considerable part of life takes place online. But for all the benefits and opportunities for change that digitization brings, the challenges - such as fake news and scaremongering, lack of privacy and data protection - must not be ignored.

The EU initiative klicksafe is therefore launching the information campaign #staysafewithklicksafe to raise awareness among parents, educators, children and young people for more safety online during and after the Corona pandemic. There is currently a lot of uncertainty among many parents. Their children are spending more time than usual in front of the computer and smartphone for homeschooling and keeping in touch with friends. This is a major challenge. "At klicksafe, we want to increase media literacy among children and young people in these times and create certainty about how best to prepare and protect themselves and their children," says Birgit Kimmel, head of the EU initiative klicksafe.

In keeping with #staysafewithklicksafe, klicksafe has temporarily adapted the logo and set up the page klicksafe.de/corona , where information and materials on digital safety topics related to Corona can be found. This content will be picked up weekly on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook under the hashtag #staysafewithklicksafe. In addition, Birgit Kimmel and Nadine Eikenbusch, speakers at klicksafe, will participate in well-known podcasts as experts on media education and digitalization.

klicksafe aims to promote people's online competence and to support them in their competent and critical use of the Internet with a wide range of offers. The EU initiative is politically and economically independent and is implemented in Germany by the media institutions in Rhineland-Palatinate (coordinator) and in North Rhine-Westphalia .

On the website www.klicksafe.de users can find a wide range of up-to-date information, practical tips and teaching material on digital services and topics. The target groups are teachers, educators, parents, children, young people and multipliers.

klicksafe is the national, German awareness center and is funded by the CEF Telecom program of the European Union. Since 2008, klicksafe has also coordinated the Safer Internet Centre DE,which includes the Internet hotlines of eco, FSM and jugendschutz.net , as well as the helpline Nummer gegen Kummer nbsp;.