The overall goal of the project lied in gaining comprehensive empirical findings on relevant questions relating to youth media protection and media education, discussing them with regard to the political challenges and involving the appropriate political bodies.
The project included the following component projects:
- Monitoring “Growing up with digital media” of the current developments in the fields of media education and youth protection; the results have been published in semi-annual reports.
- Conceptualization and organisation of the international expert conference “Net Children 2020. Growing up with Media” in Berlin, April 16/17 in 2015). One of the results is the "Roadmap Net Children 2020 – Growing up with Media. A Roadmap of Challenges and Solutions for Media Education and Child Protection in Europe" (pdf for download)
- A qualitative study on the acceptance, use and further development of technical instruments for protecting young people: here, the Institute has made connections to earlier, standardised surveys on the use of these instruments and investigates the question as to how such instruments can be integrated into families’ everyday life. Link to the project: https://www.hans-bredow-institut.de/en/node/6049
- A qualitative study on the mobile Internet use in the everyday life of children and adolescents building on the study Net Children go mobile (www.netchildrengomobile.eu).
Duration of the project: 11/2013 to 6/2015
