Cyber Safe Generation: Digital education by design Erasmus Project

Project Title

Cyber Safe Generation: Digital education by design

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2016

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy; Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Informed by the European strategy for a Better Internet for Kids (BIK, 2012) the project (’CyGen’) engaged directly with children (aged 8-13), teachers & parents in four European countries (the United Kingdom, Belgium, Denmark & Greece) in order to: 1.Explore the digital opportunities and challenges for children; 2.Develop a novel participatory design methodology and methods in order to work collaboratively with children, & teachers & parents; 3.Co-design a culturally, linguistically and age appropriate open-access multimedia education programme with children in each of the participating countries;4.Produce online open-access guidance encompassing lesson plans and pedagogical resources to support teachers and educators in primary and secondary schools in diverse European education settings to support children’s online safety The project engaged directly with 276 children, 54 teachers & 46 parents as co-producers of the digital education programme & as participants at the ME events in each of the four participating countries. Children, teachers & parents were recruited from each of the four partner schools. Local education authorities, police & law enforcement agencies & academics in each country participated in our ME events & dissemination activities. Total stakeholder engagement to date directly through the co-designed project activities, ME events & face-to-face dissemination & indirectly through digital engagement (website visits, twitter) is 955,144. The primary contribution and impacts of the project are:-The development of a new participatory design methodology and tools for supporting children as co-designers of digital education in a field that is dominated by adult-led content;-The co-design, test and implementation of digital education resources that directly benefited the participating children, teachers and parents;-The transferability of the project; whereby making available the pedagogical resources, participatory design methodology and tools on the project website in order to benefit children, teachers and parents across the EU and beyond.The outputs created for this project can be found on the project website http://cygen.eu/ and are freely available to download.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 256852 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION & Country: UK

Project Partners

• 2 DIMOTIKO SXOLEIO KALAMATAS
• UC LIMBURG
• VIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE