Last week, SafetyNet project partners met in Limassol, Cyprus for a transnational partner meeting focused on establishing the project’s research framework.
What is the SafetyNET project about?
Digital youth work is growing fast, but the standards to protect young people are falling behind. As youth organizations increasingly rely on digital platforms and AI, many lack the structured frameworks needed to ensure safety, privacy, and ethical use. Safety NET aims to create comprehensive and sustainable support systems to equip youth organizations with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate these digital tools responsibly.
Launching SafetyNET Reality Check Research
During our time in Cyprus, we officially launched our project’s research phase to find out exactly what the youth sector is missing when. Our goal is to analyze the existing capacities, digital tools, and internal practices across the youth sector, alongside current EU and national regulations.
Over the coming months, our research will focus on:
Policy Mapping → Conducting desk research on current policies and legal landscapes across Europe.
Institutional Interviews → Interviewing international institutions to understand their internal digital safety procedures.
Digital Tools Survey → Surveying the most popular digital and AI tools currently used by youth organizations and the challenges they face.
Online Debate Forums → Hosting focus groups to directly hear about real-life digital practices and gaps from youth workers themselves.
The Safety NET Consortium
This initiative is a collaborative effort driven by a diverse European consortium dedicated to youth empowerment and digital rights. We are proud to work alongside:
CONNECT International (Belgium) – Project Coordinator
OBESSU (Belgium)
MoveIt (Greece)
Zavod Koda (Slovenia)
Cultural Foundation 1948 (Cyprus)
NGO Libero (Serbia)
We are looking forward to sharing with you more about the results of the SafetyNET research and working towards safe and ethical use of digital tools in youth organization work.
On 14 and 15 May, partners from the SafetyNet project held their transnational partner meeting in Limassol, Cyprus, hosted by Cultural Foundation 1948. The two-day meeting brought together representatives from across the consortium to establish the shared research framework that will guide the project’s core work on safe and ethical use of digital tools in youth organization work.
The agenda focused on aligning methodological approaches, defining research priorities, and coordinating the next steps across partner countries. Discussions drew on the national contexts and existing research each partner organization has contributed to the project, laying the groundwork for a coherent and evidence-based framework that will inform the development of practical tools and guidelines for youth workers throughout Europe.
The Limassol meeting marks an important milestone in the early implementation phase of SafetyNet, and partners leave with a clear shared direction for the research work ahead.
