Happy Onlife
Description
Happy Onlife is a game and a toolkit targeting teens to develop digital safety and security skills and knowledge. Happy Onlife has been made of citizens’ engagement in its entire life-cycle. During dedicated workshop, students, teachers and parents were involved in each steps of the development of Happy Onlife concept: diagnostics of the needs; development, validation, assessment and adoption of resources. Happy Onlife opens research and resources to citizens. All published and released under creative commons licenses, Happy Onlife material can be freely used and reused.
Participation Spectrum
When and Where
Start Year
2015
Policy Context
Policy Stage
Context of activity
Science or Policy Field
Specific Topic
To support the EU Agenda for the Rights of the Child and the European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children. Empowering Children Rights by way of Education.
Participants
Participants
1000
Communities or representatives involved
Young citizens, parents, schools and childhood professional, Educational NGOs, civil society, etc.
How were the Participants selected?
Methodologies
Events
25
Methodologies used
Spaces Used
Impact
Output
Main Outcomes and Lasting Achievement
During the research process it emerged that, a hands-on toolkit for youngsters, parents and teachers was missing. Happy Onlife grants citizens’wish to get this kind of tool to empower citizens with digital skills and knowledge as active member of digital society.
How were the outcome taken up within the process they were carried out?
Creation of artefacts, awareness raising campaigns, technical reports on assessment.
Feedback provided
Were the methodologies used elsewhere?
The unit was endorsed with a Proof of Concept Do It Together with Happy Onlife. The methodologies were taken up by educational organisations in Romania, Portugal, Greece.
Assessment
Main Challenges
Reason for such challenges and solutions
Internal re-organisation.
Recommendation
none