by Catriona Mulcahy, Project Officer, Webwise Safer Internet Day (SID) 2025 saw over 200,000 children and young people across Ireland participate in activities and initiatives, making it the largest SID celebration to date. This year’s theme, Prepare / Protect / Thrive, explored the role of influencers and social media algorithms in shaping young people’s
Webwise is the online safety initiative of the Department of Education and co-funded by the European Commission. Webwise promotes safer, better internet use through awareness-raising and education initiatives targeting teachers, children, young people and parents/guardians. Webwise carries out the following work: With the help of the Webwise Youth Advisory Panel, Webwise also develops youth-oriented awareness-raising resources
by Emily Lynch, Assistant Director of Media Literacy and User Education This year, the annual Safer Internet Day event, coordinated by Webwise and supported by the Internet Safety Centre, took place in Microsoft’s Dream Space in Dublin, with an audience of online safety practitioners and young people, including 16 members of the Webwise Youth Advisory
Stay Safe Online: Empowering Young Minds Against Cyberbullying To coincide with Safer Internet Day 2025, the National Youth Council of Ireland published its resource for youth workers, Stay Safe Online: Empowering Young Minds Against Cyberbullying. This resource was developed by the National Youth Health Programme in response to conversations with youth workers across the island
The Same Rules Apply parental awareness campaign – supported by the HSE and Accenture – highlights the need to approach parenting children online in the same way we approach parenting them offline. Launched to mark Safer Internet Day 2025, the campaign is accompanied by this video featuring a child who can’t swim attending a swimming
1. Register for Safer Internet Day 2020 Let us know what you are planning to do to mark Safer Internet Day 2020, and we will send you online safety packs, including free wristbands for all of your participants. All schools, organisations, clubs, and community groups who are registered for #SID2020 will feature on the Webwise