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28230-Madrid, ESPAÑA
E-mail: contacto@protegeles.com
Educative Community
Most of PROTEGELES prevention actions are addressed to educators and the education community in general as we believe that all information given to parents, educators and children is essential in order to guarantee a higher level of security on the use of the new Information and Communication Technologies.
Lectures and talks at schools
PROTEGELES members go to schools and deliver lectures about security rules on the net, on-line offences prevention and conflicts resolution. Thanks to the campaign “Squeeze the web” these informative and preventive lectures are expected to get standardised and to reach much more schools.
Lectures and courses at universities
PROTEGELES takes part at many courses organised by Spanish universities. For instance, PROTEGELES’ president has delivered lectures at the Summer Courses of the Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM), Universidad del PaÍs Vasco (UPV) and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
International congresses
PROTEGELES has also been present and has delivered lectures at important international congresses, and has even organised some, like the First Congress about Anorexia and Bulimia, which took place at the Madrid Congress Palace on May 2005.
Courses for educators at Madrid Autonomous region
PROTEGELES takes part on the courses that the Madrid Autonomous Region Education Bureau organises for educators, in particular on the courses focused on the Prevention of Child Mistreating and courses on a Safer Use of the Information and Communication Technologies.
Agreements
PROTEGELES has plaid a very active role on the writing and signing of the Framework Convention on Collaboration for the Promotion of a Safer Use of Internet by Youngsters. This agreement has been ratified by the most important Spanish parent-teacher associations (CEAPA and CONCAPA), the Spanish Child Ombdusman, the Independent Teachers Union Federation (FSIE on its Spanish acronym), the main Spanish workers unions (UGT and CCOO), many Child Welfare Associations: PROTEGELES, ACPI, UNICEF, SAFE THE CHILDREN as well as the company TERRA Networks.
Mediation conflicts resolution
PROTEGELES has become a consulting association for many schools, schools chairmen and chairwomen, teachers and students when a conflict related to the use of new technologies arises. Some of the most frequent cases are students being threatened by e-mail, teachers being insulted on public ground, minors committing offences from their school’s computers and children suffering abuses on the Internet. PROTEGELES tries to solve these situations and may interfere as a mediator between the two parties: parent/internet-related company, schools/police…
Publications
PROTEGELES edits many preventive materials like leaflets, stickers, posters, comics, etc but the most popular PROTEGELES’ publication up to now is its free-of-charge magazine for youngsters: “GET CONNECTED” This magazine lists the most interesting web pages for young people both with an educative purpose or pages that are just for fun. Each issue includes articles about web-pages concerning solidarity, ecology, health and Internet Safety.
This magazine has been backed by many prestigious European Institution since the very first issue, like the European Commission, Spanish Science and Technology Ministry, Spanish Child Ombudsman, Madrid Autonomous Region Education Bureau, the most relevant Spanish Parent-Teacher Associations (CEAPA and CONCAPA) and many Child Welfare Associations (UNICEF, SAVE THE CHILDREN and ACPI). .
Informative web pages
Besides its Hotline against Child Pornography and other illegal and harmful contents on the Net, which can be found at www.protegeles.com, PROTEGELES is developing informative pages about its campaigns and actions. This action plan has led PROTEGELES to create a page for the prevention of anorexia (www.anaymia.com), and a page with information about designer drugs (www.stop-drogas.com).
Studies and campaings
Due to the high level of detail achieved by PROTEGELES studies, many education centres, including universities and other education entities have asked PROTEGELES to develop studies or surveys on subjects concerning minors’ habits or security on the use of the Information and Communication Technologies. At the same time, PROTEGELES places the education world (institutions and professionals) at the very centre of its preventive campaigns. Furthermore, those campaigns which are not specifically designed for the education commuity do always somehow have an echo on it.
Summing up, most of PROTEGELES’ work makes no sense if the educational aspect of it is missed out. We believe that education is our most powerful tool.
