Safer Internet Day

What is Safer Internet Day?

Safer Internet Day (SID) is an EU wide initiative to promote a safer internet for all users, especially young people. It is promoted in Ireland by the PDST Technology in Education and Webwise.

The Theme for Safer Internet Day is “Together for a Better Internet“. This year almost 145,000 people in Ireland celebrated Safer Internet Day 2019.

Make internet safety a priority all year round, get inspired by the resources below.

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Let us know your plans for Safer Internet Day in your home, school, club, organisation or community and we will feature you on our event map!

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Get Ideas

Safer Internet Day can be celebrated year-round so check out our list of resources below! We have lots of fun activities like word-searches, raps, roleplays and more! We also have premade SID presentations in English and in Irish. There are also a host of great videos that you can use to teach young people valuable online safety skills at home, or in the classroom.

Working with young people is a big part of what we do. Our Safer Internet Day Ambassador Programme is a peer-to-peer youth training programme that gives students an opportunity to lead an online safety campaign in their own school or community. Students can be nominated by teachers or sign up themselves. The programme is open to all second-level students in Ireland. As a Safer Internet Day Ambassador you receive free training online and face-to-face training from Webwise and from our dedicated Youth Panel. Students learn how to lead internet safety activities and campaigns which can then be run in school for Safer Internet Day.

SID Training 2019

The Safer Internet Day Ambassador Training Day took place on the 10th of January in Google Headquarters in Dublin. It saw 130 students come together to learn new skills and ideas for running their own internet safety campaign in their school, clubs or organisations.