Aware by default: raising awareness of critical social and professional groups (children and privacy professionals)

2026-07-22

The byDefault project, after identifying the needs for data protection and privacy education and for an open knowledge source for DPOs and privacy professionals, pursues two strategic goals: i) To raise data protection and privacy awareness among the critical social group of children. ii) To provide DPOs and privacy professionals with continuous support in their activities, beyond a basic level, aiming towards specialised guidance on selected key sectors. To this end, byDefault will focus on the following activities and deliver the corresponding results: 1. Development of a comprehensive education program about privacy, targeting children and especially using electronic services. On the basis of this program, byDefault aims at training elementary and secondary school students, thereby enhancing the privacy awareness and data protection culture. 2. Provision of training and support to educators (teachers and professors), in order to be able to design and enact learning sessions according to the philosophy of the education program. 3. Performance of a set of pilot education activities to several elementary and secondary schools, in order to assess the effectiveness of the training program. 4. Development of an electronic collaboration space open to DPOs and privacy professionals, fostering the exchange of general and, especially, specialised knowledge, such as information that is sector-specific or concerns the practical applicability of technologies. 5. Launch of the platform, creation of a critical mass of content and users (DPOs and privacy professionals), monitoring and assessment of its operation till the end of the project and beyond. 6. Maximisation of byDefault impact, through dissemination, networking and sustainability of project results; byDefault aims at being a project of high impact in the Greek society, with a European dimension. The results of byDefault will complement those of byDesign, our current project, that will be exploited in the proposed project.

Greece

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