The Bundeszentrale für Kinder und Jugendmedienschutz is funding seven digital projects for child-friendly digital services and guidance measures for children and educators with around 225,000 euros. One project about tips on how to use games safely involving the USK was also awarded funding.

At the end of March, the Bundeszentrale für Kinder und Jugendmedienschutz (BzKJ; The Federal Centre for the Protection of Children and Young People in the Media) announced the funding and made a call for projects.  And there was clearly a lot of interest. "We are very pleased with the response to our call for proposals. The quality and the different focuses of the project proposals document both the relevance and the variety of possibilities for shaping the future of the protection of children and young persons from harmful media," says Sebastian Gutknecht, Director of the BzKJ.

A total of seven projects submitted will receive funding totalling 225,153 euros. The amount of money allocated to each project was not disclosed. The projects themselves are very diverse and range from a digital pinboard for the Internet ABC platform, to the development of barrier-free access to the educational platform Juuuport.de, to an interactive "Scrollstory" that aims to give children and parents tips on how to use games safely. The Scrollstory is a project of the association ComputerProjekt Köln and is being implemented in cooperation with the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kinder- und Jugendschutz Nordrhein-Westfalen (North Rhine-Westphalia Working Group for the Protection of Children and Young Persons) and the Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle (USK), Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body), Germany's self-regulation body for entertainment software.

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Stephan Steininger
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