Net Children Going Mobile - Enhancing knowledge regarding European children's mobile internet and convergent mobile media use, risks, and online safety

Action 4.1 Knowledge enhancement project:
investigating the impact on young people of convergence of technology Internet provides children with new opportunities to play, learn, and be creative, to participate, communicate with people from all over the world and express themselves. The EUKidsOnline survey33 shows that children start using new technologies from a very young age, not only from computers but from a more and more diversified range of connected devices. While new technologies bring a wide range of opportunities to children, they also carry some risks.
This is why the 2012 Work Programme calls for a knowledge enhancement project which should investigate through a quantitative and qualitative methodology how the changing conditions of access and use (mobile devices) bring greater or lesser risks to children’s safety.
Proposals for training and education, awareness and mediation strategies to children’s parents and professionals working with children should also be included in the project.
The results of the project should be made available in order to provide topics for further actions and studies.