Abstract:

This paper analyzes the learning and development opportunities offered by the European Cross- border project of Interreg for Educational Institutional cooperation regarding cyberbullying in the region of Southern Slovakia and Northern Hungary. Depending on the online problems they have, the education of these young people is difficult. The objective of the cross-border project conducted at schools called KIDSAFEDU (Kids Online Safety Education) is to provide professional support to educational institutions of the Slovak-Hungarian western cross-border region in the fields of IT, children's rights and secure online educational tools. The main outputs of institutional cooperation were surveys and comparative research between Hungary and Slovakia on the topic of digital childhood about digital knowledge with performing educational materials in the field of advocacy of children's rights in the online environment. Giving specific examples of good practice in cross-border cooperation, we examined 10 schools of border regions via survey, from which we selected FAQ (frequently asked questions by children aged 10-18). There is a real and well-established practice in educational management of online institutions to adapt the education regarding cyberbullying at the European level. Young people come across different types of cybercrime, (data protection, GDPR, hacking, malware) are attacked and have no knowledge on how to handle it. Data were taken from the Grant research SKHU/WETA/1901/4.1/317 KIDSAFEDU in FutuReg processed by the International Management Department of Comenius University in the period November 2020 until July 2021, within one school year.

Keywords:

Digital skills, online education, EU digital safety, cross-border education, international.