SIC-SPAIN 4.0

Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE)

It is a public entity and under the authority of the Ministry for the transformation and the civil service through the Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure and consolidated as a reference entity for the development of cybersecurity and digital trust for citizens, academic and research networks, professionals, companies and especially for strategic sectors.

With an activity based on cybersecurity and digital trust in Spain through the provision of services for citizens, businesses and academia, research against cybercrime and participation in cooperation networks at national and international level.

Under the management of INCIBE, Internet Segura for Kids (IS4K) es is the Safer Internet Centre for minors in Spain and its objective is to promote the safe and responsible use of the Internet by children and adolescents. 

IS4K acts in line with the European strategy BIK+ (Better Internet for Kids) and is part of the INSAFE and INHOPE Networks, deploying the lines of activity of the Internet safety centres: awareness, helpline and report line, while contributing to the coordination of the actions of awareness and empowerment of young people carried out by the consortium SIC-SPAIN 3.0.

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Aprender a Mirar Foundation (FAAM)

The Aprender a Mirar Foundation is a non-profit organisation that works for the defence of audiovisual media users, especially children and adolescents, through training, information, social action for prevention, denunciation and defence, and the promotion of values. It acts as a consultant to promote the quality of content, with a positive approach that guarantees the protection of minors.

Asociación de Consumidores de Medios Audiovisuales (ACMAC)

The Audiovisual Media Consumers Association of Catalonia is a non-profit association, affiliated to FAAM, which works for quality in the audiovisual media and in the defence of the rights of users, especially minors, who are the most defenceless in front of the screens.

FAAM and ACMAC participate with the following activities:

• Develop and organise national events and information campaigns to diagnose opportunities and risks, as well as to improve the Internet safety of young Spaniards.

• Produce a newsletter that is distributed in different media and contains tools and training resources to raise awareness on safe and correct use of the Internet.

• Create a certification model of good practices in the safe use of screens, especially against digital bullying.

• To promote audiovisual training and good practices as well as to prevent digital addiction, bullying and online hypersexualisation. Targeting especially young people. This will be supported by a series of surveys and a study in schools.

RR.SS FAAM

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RR.SS ACMAC

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RR.SS Contraste Co-branding 

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Gaptain - Educación y Salud digital

Gaptain is an EdTech company whose mission is to help schools and families to educate in the prevention of digital risks/addictions and in the safe and healthy use of technology. To this end, it has developed Kids Centric Universe, the educational platform for schools to develop students' digital skills by promoting healthy use habits and digital well-being.

Kids Centric Universe, recommended by UNESCO in 2024, implements a digital literacy programme that is integral to the educational environment and personalised based on an initial diagnosis in the classroom.

Gaptain collaborates with the consortium by implementing the tool in 25 educational environments (school + families).

Other Gaptain resources: online magazine 'Educación y Bienestar digital', video channel Educación digital, online courses for families 'Educando en digital'.

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Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) 

The Complutense University of Madrid is the largest Spanish university and one of the most prestigious in Europe. Its centres are spread over two campuses: Ciudad Universitaria in Moncloa and Somosaguas. It also has some centres in the city of Madrid.

UCM is made up of 26 faculties, 10 affiliated centres, 37 university institutes, 7 professional specialisation schools, 9 research support centres and ICTS, 14 university clinics and hospitals, 5 UCM halls of residence and 2 centres abroad. Its 32 libraries hold 3,000,000 volumes.

Its contributions to this project are:

• The implementation of a Barometer on media and information literacy, with the aim of measuring the consumption and digital skills of children and adolescents in the framework of their ‘digital capital’. A representative survey will be designed and applied, analysing the data using statistical tools. The results will be disseminated through scientific reports and publications.

• A qualitative research on body image, anorexia and bulimia in social networks, which will analyse the predominant narratives in these digital environments and their impact on the perception of body image among adolescents. Focus groups will be developed with a diverse sample of adolescents and discourse analysis will be used with Atlas.ti. As part of the dissemination of results, scientific articles will be published and dissemination materials will be produced in formats accessible to children and adolescents.

• The coordination and publication of two monographic issues in scientific journals. One will be dedicated to the incidence of advertising aimed at children and adolescents on social networks, and the other will deal with consumption in childhood and adolescence. These publications will contribute to broadening international knowledge on the subject.

• The organisation of a congress/seminar on media consumption in children and adolescents, which will bring together children and adolescents, academics and professionals to reflect on the impact of media consumption. Thematic tables will be presented and an awareness-raising activity will be promoted in which children and adolescents will lead the reflection on their participation in the digital environment. 

Association of Communication Users (AUC)

AUC is an organisation whose main function is to defend the interests of citizens as users of media and social media, as receptors of their messages and as potential targets of their content or in the use of their data. Its activities focus, among others, on the protection of young people and children from inappropriate or harmful commercial content and communications. It has extensive experience in the project, in which it is involved in developing a system for labelling and rating content, due to its participation in forums such as the Self-regulation Code on television content and children, the ICAA Film Rating Commission, the Internet Governance Forum and advice to different providers and distributors of online content.

AUC's contribution to this project focuses on:

• Maintenance of the selflabelling.info website and development of its functionalities.

• Updating of the benchmarking previously carried out (SIC -SPAIN 2.0).

• Development of training and informative materials for broadcasters, generators, encoders and end users.

• Expansion of contacts with the actors involved.

• Initial development of an automated self-labelling system (using algorithms and AI).

• System implementation pilots.

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Federation of Associations for the Quality of the Media (iCmedia)

iCmedia promotes different initiatives to improve the quality of audiovisual content.

iCmedia is a member of the European Commission's Media Literacy Expert Group, as well as of the Joint Commission for Self-Regulation of Spanish Television, which allows them to monitor content and defend minors in this regard.

Their contribution to this project is:

• The creation of content, courses and online resources so that minors, parents and educators have the capacity to evaluate technical and artistic quality.

• The creation of manuals and guides for the media, influencers, and other entities with the capacity to influence in order to promote safe and responsible use of the internet.

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EU Kids Online Spain (UPV/EHU)

The UPV/EHU research group is the Spanish team of EU Kids Online, an international research network set up by the Safer Internet Programme in 2006 that aims to improve knowledge about the online opportunities, risks and safety of European children. These researchers use a variety of methods to map the online experiences of children and their parents, in collaboration with various national and European policy actors. 

Its contribution mainly focuses on activities related to diagnose. This time the Spanish team –together with some other European teams from different countries- will survey schoolchildren aged between 10 and 16. The findings of this research will contribute to improve Spanish children’s digital and general wellbeing in the following domains: 

•    Digital safety: in order to minimize the impact of risks and maximize digital opportunities
•    Digital literacy policies: for adjusting and improving education policies
•     Protection and development of children’s rights 

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Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC)

The Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) is a young public university with several campuses in the metropolitan area of Madrid, whose mission is to foster innovative research and high quality education in one of the fastest growing regions of Spain. The URJC has had a great growth reaching almost 40,000 enrolled students and nearly 1,900 professors, being currently the second public university in Madrid in number of students. The URJC has a strong international projection, with an academic community made up of 5,200 foreigners from 60 countries. As a multidisciplinary academic and research institution, the Rey Juan Carlos University promotes research aimed at economic and social development, fostering and promoting research activity, dissemination and transfer of knowledge and research results to society.

The contribution of this team in the project will focus on:

• Research on the degree of comprehensibility of the texts on the use of the main social networks (YouTube, Tik.-Tok, Facebook, Instagram...) in order to design materials to be used in an awareness-raising programme for minors to alert them to the need to review the terms of use and privacy policies on the Internet.

• Design of a campaign to raise awareness of self-harming behaviour among young people: to launch a guide to help children think critically about references to self-harm on social networks, to help develop a web application to help parents and teachers and other actions to inform and raise awareness such as exhibitions and workshops.

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Children's Platform

Plataforma de Infancia is an alliance of non-profit, plural, supportive, democratic and politically and religiously independent entities that work to achieve full compliance with the rights of children and adolescents. Its main objective is the welfare of children, and to this end, among other measures, it publicises and defends their rights and promotes collaboration and participation in all related public and private bodies and the participation and association of children.

The contribution that the Children's Platform makes to the Project is in the management of the Youth Panel:

• Maintaining the online participation space www.cibercorresponsales.org in which children and adolescents themselves can make their contributions on how to contribute to a safe space, where their rights are respected and taken into account.

• On an annual basis, a face-to-face meeting of the Cybercorrespondents' network will be held to discuss safety issues, in addition to other small training and debate spaces in which educational teams will also be taken into account.

• International collaboration with the Portuguese SIC, participation in the Panel of representatives of the INSAFE network.

Empantallados

Empantallados.com is a free online project aimed at Spanish-speaking parents, with the objective of helping them to educate their children in the healthy use of technology. Empantallados is an initiative of Fundación Fomento de Centros de Enseñanza, in collaboration with numerous experts in education, health and technology.

Empantallados will support the mission of the Consortium, with:

• Conducting a study on the impact of Artificial Intelligence in education, through a survey of teenagers, teachers and parents.

• The creation and dissemination of online resources aimed at parents, with the aim of promoting an education that encourages critical thinking and the proper use of screens.

Cibervoluntarios Foundation 

Cibervoluntarios Foundation is a pioneering organisation in technological volunteering and aims to alleviate social gaps, generate social innovation and citizen empowerment, promote Human Rights and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the social use of ICTs. Since 2001, Fundación Cibervoluntarios has been promoting digital transformation with social impact, expanding the rights, opportunities and capacities of thousands of people in situations of digital vulnerability through the use and knowledge of all kinds of technological tools. To achieve this, they work with a network of more than 1,800 cyber-volunteers and collaborate with more than 1,300 national and international entities and organisations. With all their activities, they reach 60,000 people annually. A track record that has been recognised by the Financial Times as one of the 100 entities leading the Digital Transformation in Europe and more recently by FORBES Magazine as one of 'Spain's 100 Other Top Fortunes'.

Cibervoluntarios will continue in the project with its programme  'Stop, Think and Connect, against digital gender-based violence' to prevent digital gender-based violence in minors. This programme includes training to detect digital gender violence in educational centres, advertising campaigns, creation of videos, generation of a report and events.

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Pantallas Amigas

Created in 2004 by and to promote education for cyber-citizenship and digital well-being, with a focus on children's rights. Its activities include the creation of educational resources, awareness-raising campaigns and informative conferences, advice to institutions, educational centres and families, the development of training plans and intervention in public policies. 

Pantallas Amigas participates in the following activities:

• The development of campaigns to combat misinformation on the net and increase awareness among teenagers.  

• Development of a video game aimed at teenagers to raise awareness and prevention of digital gender-based violence.

• Establishment of a service to support families who want to improve and use the internet in a healthy way. 

• Maintain the Cibermanagers community for the long-term training of teenagers in the healthy use of the internet.

Spanish Association of Paediatrics (AEP)

The Spanish Association of Paediatrics (AEP) is a non-profit scientific-medical society whose main purpose is to guarantee the health and well-being of children and adolescents in their physical, psychological, social and environmental dimensions.

As a body representing paediatric professionals, one of the AEP's main objectives is to promote the development of the speciality in the areas of care —preventive, curative and rehabilitative— as well as in teaching and research, with special attention to social and professional issues. The AEP currently represents nearly 13,000 paediatricians.

Under the management of INCIBE, the AEP has launched the Digital Family Plan, an initiative that provides families with tools and resources to promote the appropriate and healthy use of screens in the family environment. The key to the rational use of these devices begins with the example that adults set for their children. The actions and messages disseminated on this platform are aligned with the guidelines of the SIC-SPAIN 3.0 consortium.

The National Institute of Educational Technology and Teacher Training (INTEF)

The National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF) is the unit of the Ministry of Education and Professional Training responsible for integrating ICT and Teacher Training into the non-university levels of education.

It has the rank of a Sub-directorate General, and is part of the Directorate-General of Evaluation and Territorial Cooperation, which in turn is part of the Secretariat of State of Education.

INTEF carries out the functions attributed to the Directorate General for the development and dissemination of curricular materials and other support documents for teachers, the design of teacher training models and the design and implementation of specific programmes, in collaboration with the Autonomous Communities, aimed at the scientific and didactic updating of teachers at the different educational levels.

Its contribution in the team is to participate as a strategic partner of INCIBE in the development of awareness campaigns aimed at the educational community for the development of digital skills in online security and collaboration in the development of an online course aimed at police officers in the framework of the 'Master Plan for Coexistence and Improvement of Security in Educational Centres and their Environment'. 

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Internet Segura for Kids (IS4K)

Internet Security Centre for children in Spain promotes the safe and responsible use of the Internet and new technologies among children and adolescents. In line with the European BIK (Better Internet for Kids) strategy, is part of the pan-European network INSAFE of Internet Safety Centers.

Website IS4K

Safer Internet Centre Spain (SIC-SPAIN)

The SIC-SPAIN project continues and extends the service provided by Internet Segura for Kids (IS4K).  It promotes the safe and responsible use of the Internet and new technologies among children and adolescents. In line with the European BIK (Better Internet for Kids) strategy, is part of the pan-European network INSAFE of Internet Safety Centres.

Safer Internet Centre Spain 2.0 (SIC-SPAIN 2.0)

The Safer Internet Centre Spain 2.0 (SIC-SPAIN 2.0) project is a continuation of the SIC-SPAIN project with the same three objectives: awareness-raising, helpline and reporting channel for dangerous content. With regard to the first of these, the public-private collaboration platform to promote the safe use of the Internet has been extended. The operations of helpline, as well as the hotline, will guide the design of specific awareness campaigns that will contribute to the development of the European Strategy's capacities: Better Internet for Kids (BIK).

03/2022 - 02/2024 (Coordinador)

Safer Internet Centre Spain 3.0 (SIC-SPAIN 3.0)

The SIC-SPAIN 3.0 project continues the SIC-SPAIN 2.0 project for 2 years, strengthening the lines of activity linked to the Spanish SIC, to promote online opportunities and tackle risks in order to make the Internet safer for minors. Respecting the same three objectives of awareness-raising, helpline and hotline, this project aims to help minors to deal with online risks and to become citizens capable of analysing media information and applying critical judgement.