📍 Location: Rome, Italy
📅 Dates: 12–16 March 2024
🌐 Project Title: Web Wizards: Safe and Fun Digital Adventures
🤝 Partner Countries: Türkiye 🇹🇷 – Italy 🇮🇹 – Bulgaria 🇧🇬
🎯 Programme Type: Erasmus+ KA210-SCH – Small-scale Partnerships in School Education
✨ A Week of Learning and Awareness on Digital Safety in Italy
As part of our Erasmus+ project, a 5-day international training event was successfully held in Rome, Italy, focusing on raising awareness and building competences among students, teachers, and parents about online safety, ethics, and digital citizenship.
The event’s central theme was: “Be Safe in the Digital World!”
Target groups included students aged 11–18, educators, and families from the three partner countries.
The objective: to help participants understand digital risks, adopt responsible online behaviour, and create a safe digital environment through collaborative learning.
👨🏫 Participants and Key Training Topics
👦 For Students:
- Understanding and Preventing Digital Threats: Phishing, scams, and social engineering
- Creating Strong Passwords and Safe Browsing Habits
- Addressing Cyberbullying and Developing Online Etiquette
- Recognising Digital Footprints and Their Long-term Impacts
- Media Literacy Workshops: Fact-checking and detecting fake news
- Interactive Digital Games and Safety Quizzes
👩🏫 For Teachers:
- Digital Safety Strategies for the Classroom
- Designing and Delivering Safe Digital Learning Materials
- Parental Collaboration for eSafety Guidance
- Responsible Use of Educational Technology
- Reviewing International Good Practices in Digital Literacy
👨👩👧 For Families:
- Techniques to Guide Children’s Online Experiences
- Family-Based Digital Communication Strategies
- Practical Use of Parental Control Tools
- Awareness of Online Ethics and Children’s Digital Rights
📢 Dissemination and Impact
Throughout the week, students worked on creating short educational videos that reflected what they learned. These will be shared on blogs, school websites, and social media channels in their home countries.
All training sessions, photos, and materials were also documented and shared through the project’s official site and via local Italian media, expanding the impact of the event to a wider audience.
🎯 Key Outcomes
✔ Increased awareness and skills in digital safety among students
✔ Improved teacher capacity to integrate eSafety in education
✔ Strengthened family involvement in guiding children’s online use
✔ Fostered intercultural exchange and collaboration among partners
✔ Raised responsibility and readiness against digital threats in schools
📌 Looking Ahead
The event in Rome was not just a training—it was a milestone in fostering digitally responsible generations. The partnerships and exchanges developed here will contribute to broader efforts to promote digital safety and literacy across Europe. #WebWizards #ErasmusPlus #KA210 #DigitalSafety #SafeInternet #DigitalCitizenship #MediaLiteracy #Rome2024 #eSafety #EducationCooperation
