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EU - Safer Internet Programme
The Safer Internet Programme provides funding for activities to deal with illegal and harmful content, as part of a coherent approach by the European Union. The Safer Internet Programme as originally adopted ran for 4 years 1999-2002. The European Parliament and Council have decided to extend it for a further two years 2003-2004. See this decision. The programme has four main actions: - setting up a European network of hotlines for reporting illegal content - encouraging self-regulation - developing content rating and filtering, benchmarking filtering software and services - raising awareness of safer use of the Internet The coverage of the Safer Internet Programme Plan will extend to new online technologies, including mobile and broadband content, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer, and all forms of real-time communications such as chat rooms and instant messages primarily with the aim of improving the protection of children and minors. Action will be taken to ensure that a broader range of areas of illegal and harmful content and conduct of concern are covered, including racism and violence. The total budget is 38.3 mio euro.

The European Commission has published a call for proposals to implement the Work Programme 2003 - 2004 of the Safer Internet programme. The indicative total budget available for this call is € 11.7 million of Community contribution.  

Further information may be found following the link below.

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/programmes/iap/index_en.htm 
Published by   CBSS - Council of the Baltic Sea States, Lars Lööf (CBSS)
Created   13.06.2003
Updated   22.01.2004
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