News Events Publications Programmes, publications and projects ›› Child sexual abuse and exploitation ›› Children as perpetrators ›› Children in institutions ›› Child Protection Services ›› Children living in the street ›› Child trafficking, Unaccompanied or Separated Children ›› Child Prostitution ›› Children and the Internet National Contact Points for Unaccompanied and Trafficked Children International Conventions, declarations and recommendations Research Competence centers National Co-ordinators Legislation - Guidelines Non Governmental Organisations Funding Document Archive

ROBERT - Risktaking Online Behaviour Empowerment through Research and Training

Child Centre

TheROBERT project intends to make online interaction safe for children and young people. This will be achieved through learning from experiences of online abuse processes and factors that make young people vulnerable as well as those that offer protection. Perpetrators’ strategies in relation to grooming of children online will also be explored along with developing an understanding of how abuse may develop in the online environment. Children and young people will be empowered in order for them to better protect themselves online. Groups of children perceived to be more at risk will specifically benefit from chances of improved self-protection.

This 24 month project (June 2010 to June 2012) is funded by the European Commission Safer Internet Programme as a Knowledge Enhancement Project. It is managed and coordinated by the CBSS Expert Group for Cooperation on Children at risk, EGCC, in partnership with: University of Tartu in Estonia, Linköping University in Sweden, the University of Edinburgh in the UK, Save the Children Denmark, Save the Children Italia, Innocence in Danger in Germany, Stellit International in the Netherlands and in Russia and Kingston University in the UK.

For the project website, please click here.

For a description of the project, please click here.