Internet – (k)ein rechtsfreier Raum, Lehren und Lernen durch die Datenschutz-App zur Verbesserung der Medienkompetenz im Bereich der Erwachsenen- Jugend- und Schulbildung Erasmus Project

Project Title

Internet – (k)ein rechtsfreier Raum, Lehren und Lernen durch die Datenschutz-App zur Verbesserung der Medienkompetenz im Bereich der Erwachsenen- Jugend- und Schulbildung

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 adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers; Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learning; EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Project Summary

The European Parliament has initiated a draft for a new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – at the same time some Internet platforms like Twitter are forbidden, e.g. in Turkey. With the subject Data protection there is high uncertainty in the population about the not yet cleared NSA affair. This uncertainty must be urgently transformed into security through information and education. With the project “Internet – not (an) extralegal room”, a consortium consisting of TR, BG, SL, GR, AT and DE has created an opportunity for parents and consumers which contributes to more individual responsibility in the area of data protection and data security: The Data- Protection-App „DATAPP”.
It is especially the data security of children and young people which the consortium had in mind by creating this unique Europe-wide app. The European Parliament (2012) ”Supports […] efforts to promote systematic education and training for children, parents, educators, schoolteachers and social workers, aimed at enabling them to […] identify those dangers which could harm the physical or mental integrity of children, at reducing the risks related to digital media“. To contribute to this was the aim of the DATAPP-app which preceded a demand analysis with 900 filled in questionnaires. In the result of this demand analysis, whose target group were parents, it became clear that more than 90 percent of the questioned parents throughout Europe are worried, about the data security on the Internet. Due to this result our European syndicate took this meaningful task.
With the use of this “DATAPP” parents and everybody in charge of education, as well as children and youngsters will learn to appreciate and to protect the value of freedom – in the form of data protection. Privacy is a high value in our democracy which presupposes an online literacy of parents and of all citizens. In the population knowledge of the judicial system is hardly spread including the data protection precautions, so that the Internet presents itself for many uninformed or ignorant parents and consumers as a kind of „extralegal room“.
With the creation of the first European Data- Protection-App the consortium provided information about the topics: copyright, social networks, online competitions and conclusions of contracts, technical security and background information. The app was enlarged with a learning game for families. All contents are available in 7 languages. Further translation, for example an extension of the text written in Arabian language are being prepared. Besides, there is a password check which enables all users to check their passwords on security. This will train the data protection sensitivity of our adolescent children – and young people.
All available contents were tested in 6 partner schools and adjusted culturally. To achieve a very wide range of action, a Europe-wide radio campaign with more than 5 million listeners was carried out on the Safer Internet day. This measure of dissemination resulted in television reports in Belgium and Bulgaria, so that in an early stage of the project the consciousness for the topic was already sharpened and a wide public was reached.
As data security and -protection is no exclusive family subject, but a society-political subject, a political counsellor was activated at the beginning of the project, who introduced all project activities in political discussions. Thus, a final position paper with sociopolitical demands was also handed over to the political counsellor on the final symposium in Pleven (BG). In that paper requests were formulated especially on the subject Security and Protection for children and youngsters on the Internet. A central question is: “Who does my personal data belong to?” This question is not cleared, neither in national data protection laws nor in the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force in May 2018. With “DATAPP”, the consortium contributes actively to the European cross section subject: “Media competence education” by interpersonal, intercultural and social competence. The common challenge of strengthening parents’ media literacy softens up cultural-traditionally tightened educational methods and creates space for intelligent, sustained learning. Every partner country hosted an exemplary big event in a school for the national dissemination. In the European context the consortium could make use of single memberships in the EVBB to disseminate the contents in every European member state. The conversion of “DATAPP” is an attractive answer to a global problem and strengthens the educational and political, as well as the parental responsibility for the present and future life and development of the adolescent generation in Europe.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 219038 Eur

Project Coordinator

RECHT IN EUROPA EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• UCHEBNA RABOTILNITSA EVROPA SDRUZHENIE
• K MILIOS AND SIA OE
• BERUFSFORDERUNGSINSTITUT OBEROSTERREICH
• INTER-KULTURO MEDNARODNI KULTURNO IZOBRAZEVALNI CENTER DOO
• Bartin Lisesi
• Sambucusforum vzw
• Stiftung Medien- und Onlinesucht