<< Background >>“#DigitSafe-Boosting digital safe spaces and resilience” Project following the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2017 and in line with the EU Youth Goal 6 “Information & Constructive Dialogue”, aims at empowering young people to become resilient and safe digital citizens, enabling them to address some of the challenges and negative impacts of the digital era. The results of the DigitFIT project, in which 3 members of this Consortium have participated, pointed out the difficulties young people find when looking for compiled information and for knowledge on how to act when their digital privacy and security is undermined or when they face cyberbullying and hate speech.To implement #DigitSafe, the joint work of the five European partners that composed this Consortium, will be required: CONEXX-EU (Belgium) as coordinator, CESUR (Spain), Inova Aspire (The Netherlands), Radio Alma (Belgium) and PFE (Bulgaria). In the field of digital safety and resilience among young people (18-30 y.o), project’s target, a number of needs that will be addressed by #DigitSafe are highlighted by the Consortium:Digital risks are rarely addressed effectively through formal education while ICTs are becoming increasingly embedded in young people's lives,due to technological advances as well as the accelerated European digital transition during Covid-19 pandemic.It is crucial to enhance the nonformal education offer and open access information on privacy and security to create new tools where harmonized information reaches young people.They, especially those in vulnerable situations,often lack the necessary knowledge and skills for a safe digital usage.They might be digital natives but not necessarily digitally savvyWorldwide, young people get a huge amount of new knowledge through small bits of information, through the content creation tools social media platforms make available to all users,that gives the option to dig deeper in any theme if the user wants to but makes the key messages more visual and straightforward. The project will meet its target audience using their social media language and disseminate its outputs basing its strategy in the researched best practices on awareness campaigns on social media and through influencing channels they daily use as TikTok with 100 million active monthly users in Europe or radio podcasts, Instagram reels or Twitch, with a high percentage of young users. The need of making trustworthy and quality available information regarding legal, psychological, learning issues to become more resilient and savvy in the digital space regarding Cyber Bullying,Hate Speech and user Security and Privacy easily reachable and structured into one single source will also be addressed for later, translating it into the needed narrative digital practices that will effectively reach young people. This strikes directly the lack of formal education within the topics,the dissonance between the available resources and the actual formats in which youth consumes this kind of information, as well as communicative problems as the huge amount of information on one same topic spread all over multiple platforms and sources and the difficulty to discern and pick up the user encounters.Likewise, multilingual needs will also be considered because although the younger generations are mostly used to consuming global content in English, there is no specific data to assume that our target group, young people and those belonging to vulnerable groups,will engage all our intended information if it is entirely in English.Therefore,the project will use a multilingual approach with content not just in English but also in French,Spanish,Dutch and Bulgarian.Finally, Consortium needs are also going to be addressed through raising awareness, strengthening partners capacities in the mentioned topics for future youth actions and for their overall youth work, empowering their own digital resilience.<< Objectives >>#DigitSafe whole project will be aimed at fostering a wider and deeper knowledge amongst young people on the two key topics of Cybersecurity & Hate Speech and Security & Privacy, in particular amongst the most vulnerable groups of young people, building safer digital common spaces and practices as well as boosting their capacities in terms of digital resilience. By collecting indispensable information on these issues in the legal, psychological and social framework, as well as compiling it to make it accessible for young people, in ways that truly reach the youth through their most used social media channels, #DigitSafe Project also wants to achieve the following three specific main objectives:-To promote digital citizenship among young people in the participating countries by, in accordance with the EU Youth Strategy 2019-2027, empowering them with practical and compiled information about Security & Privacy, Hate Speech & Cyberbullying.-To provide young people, especially the ones with fewer opportunities who often lack information and data literacy, with the necessary competences to enhance their digital resilience.-To develop an innovative methodology that translates the compiled relevant information in a single handbook into a multichannel public awareness campaign, utilising the most common audiovisual communication practices and language, tools and trends amongst young people.A multimedia and multichannel strategy that exploits the current content creation vaste amount of possibilities accessible to every user offered by the current social media landscape, aimed at strengthening the ability of the youth to make rational choices, knowing their digital rights.<< Implementation >>#DigitSafe Project will be implemented during 24 months through two Intellectual Outputs composed of nine activities that will generate a similar and balanced workload between all partners:IO1: #DigitSafe Digital Resilience Handbook on Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, Security & Privacy, led by Professional Forum for EducationIO2: #DigitSafe Public Awareness Campaign through Social Media & Open Access platform, led by CONEXX-EUROPEThe Consortium’s purpose with IO1 is to raise awareness on the overall opportunities young people have to deal with digital threats and challenges to become empowered and resilient digital citizens. Five activities will implemented within IO1 between M1-M10:ACTIVITY1:Research and collection of information on educational, legal, psychological and social resources available, regarding the two modules thematic to a multilevel contextACTIVITY2:Drafting of the #DigitSafe Handbook. Analysing and organising the information for drafting the modules structureACTIVITY3:Translations.The handbook, as well as in English, will be available in all partner languages: French, Spanish, Bulgarian and DutchACTIVITY4: Handbook Assessment. Development of 15 surveys per partner translated into the project languages that will reach 75 young people from the target group to verify the usefulness of the produced materialACTIVITY5: Design & Layout of the Handbook which will be presented in the most engaging and efficient way since it will remain available to access it online for freeThe project will proceed with the four IO2 activities to be implemented from M11 to M24 once IO1 is completed:ACTIVITY1:Development of the #DigitSafe Multimedia Strategy”. An internal document containing the multichannel, multilingual and multi format strategy to be executed through various social media and the project’s open access platform.ACTIVITY2:Creation of the www.digitsafe.com Open Access platform and social media profiles in order to contain all the necessary sections for when the campaign starts (IO2.A4). ACTIVITY3:Focus Group. 4 virtual focus groups and one designed as a radio programme in Belgium will be conducted, reaching 7-10 per partner(representative of the target group) to test the Content Strategy in execution and deliver a national report.ACTIVITY4: #Digitsafe Public Awareness Campaign. An 8 months multichannel, multiformat and multilingual dissemination of knowledge campaign under the #DigitSafe name, will be executed. IO2 milestone will fulfil the project's objectives of promoting youth digital citizenship to face digital challenges, providing them the necessary competences to enhance their digital resilience and strengthening their ability to preserve their rights in the digital field.In addition to IO’s activities, the following will also be carried out:-5 MULTIPLIER EVENTS, one per partner, engaging a total of 150 participants to disseminate the final results-4 TRANSNATIONAL MEETINGS, to be held in Belgium and Bulgaria as well as two virtual-1 DISSEMINATION & COMMUNICATION PLAN-1 EVALUATION & QUALITY ASSURANCE PLAN-1 SUSTAINABILITY PLAN-INTERIM AND FINAL REPORTS-VIRTUAL MEETINGS every 3 months, often if needed.<< Results >>#DigitSafe - Boosting digital safe spaces and resilience project expects 2 complementary main outcomes, resulting from each of the 2 Intellectual Outputs that shape the project:IO1: #DigitSafe Digital Resilience Handbook on Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, Security & Privacy: Composed of 2 complementary modules (Cyberbullying & Hate Speech, and Security & Privacy) it will offer in a comprehensive and unified way, guidance, practical information (legal resources, psychological resources, tips, open learning resources and other training resources) and key recommendations on different issues for youth to acquire a more in depth knowledge of their rights, digital risks and threats in the context of these topics. It will raise awareness on the opportunities and resources available to build skills for dealing with issues arising from young people’s current digital lives (e.g. how to protect oneself from cyberbullying in a job seeking process or how to better manage one self's published contents when accepting terms and conditions on the apps). It will empower youth to become engaged digital citizens and foster a safer digital world. It will curate a vast amount of information, unifying it in a more useful and comprehensive way. It will be available for free for everyone through the project’s platform in 5 European languages (English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Bulgarian).IO2: #DigitSafe Public Awareness Campaign through Social Media & Open Access platform.It will disseminate the knowledge contained in the IO1's handbook’s information by translating the handbook into multimedia and multilingual contents, published through its various social media profiles and www.digitsafe.com platform. A Multimedia Strategy will be drafted, containing all the needed elements for planning a campaign of these characteristics, the platform and social media profiles will be created and the campaign will run for 8 months. It will produce multiple audiovisual contents using different social media tools and trends, strategically disseminated through a multi channel strategy (expected to be at least Instagram, TikTok, SoundCloud, Youtube and Twitch).These results will impact the consortium, target audience and wider public to several levels. Inside the partnership, knowledge will increase around the researched topics, providing new tools to become digitally resilients and perform their professional activity in a digitally safer way. Through the public awareness campaign, they will develop new capacities on the current social media landscape, maximizing their capacity to communicate with youth. Externally, a large number of European youth(comprising a high percentage of youngsters in vulnerable situations), and other stakeholders(as youth workers engaged in the project’s topics) will be impacted. In the handbook they will find a comprehensive tool to refer to when looking for a unified set of resources to learn and develop training for youth on these topics, and through the campaign they will be impacted by its messages and gain knowledge and capacities through the same digital languages and spaces they use in their daily life.The impact will be regional, national and European. The handbook and a large number multimedia contents will be made available in the mentioned 5 languages, and young people from the consortium’s communities will be carefully selected to take part in the evaluation phases of the IOs, bringing a local/national approach to the results. The Dissemination Communication and Visibility Plan of the project itself will take a multilevel geographical and sociological approach. Via the project’s open access platform, everyone will have full access to its results, which are thought to be sustained in time, due to its transferability and its potential to be reshared and reappropriated by the audience on social media, remaining also available for young people facing issues on Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, Security and Privacy.