About This Course
Students today grow up online. They learn there, socialise there, play there and increasingly define their identity there. Yet most schools still approach digital safety as a set of rules and warnings rather than as a genuine competence that needs to be developed, practised and embedded in every aspect of school life.
This course gives education professionals the knowledge, the frameworks and the practical tools to teach digital wellbeing and online safety in ways that are genuinely effective, age-appropriate and rooted in research. Participants explore the latest evidence on how digital environments affect young people's mental health and development, develop strategies for building positive digital habits, and design activities that help students make better decisions online.
The course addresses online safety, cyberbullying, screen time and digital addiction, privacy and data literacy, and the growing challenge of AI-generated content and deepfakes. It is aligned with DigComp 3.0 Area 4 on Safety, the EU Strategy for a Better Internet for Kids and the Erasmus+ priorities of Digital Transformation and Inclusion and Diversity.
Who Should Attend
- Teachers who want to address digital wellbeing and online safety meaningfully in their classroom
- School counsellors and wellbeing staff working with young people and digital challenges
- ICT coordinators responsible for school digital safety policy
- School leaders developing whole-school approaches to digital wellness
- Parents and community education professionals welcome
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
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Explain the relationship between digital technology use and young people's wellbeing, drawing on current research.
You will be able to have an evidence-based, balanced conversation about screen time and digital wellbeing with students, parents, colleagues and school leaders. Not the panic-driven conversation that dominates media coverage, but one that distinguishes between passive and active digital engagement, understands the research on social media and adolescent mental health, and takes a genuinely nuanced view of both risks and benefits.
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Teach students to protect their personal data, manage their digital footprint and make informed privacy decisions.
Students routinely hand over personal data without thinking about what happens to it. You will have a suite of activities that make data privacy concrete, relevant and understandable for different age groups. The goal is not to make students frightened of the internet but to make them genuinely informed users of it.
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Apply evidence-based strategies for preventing and responding to cyberbullying.
Cyberbullying prevention is most effective when it is embedded in a whole-school culture of respect and positive digital citizenship rather than treated as a separate topic. You will know the difference between approaches that work and approaches that backfire, and have specific activities for different age groups and contexts.
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Design a digital wellbeing programme or curriculum unit appropriate for your school context.
You will leave with a complete, coherent digital wellbeing unit designed for your students. It will address the specific challenges your students face, connect to your school's existing PSHE or citizenship curriculum, and include assessment activities that go beyond testing knowledge to developing genuine digital resilience.
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Contribute to a whole-school digital safety and wellbeing policy that is current, evidence-based and practically useful.
Most school digital safety policies are out of date before they are published. You will know how to develop a policy that is flexible enough to keep pace with a changing landscape, specific enough to give real guidance, and collaborative enough that students and parents feel ownership of it.
A 7-Day Professional Development Experience
The Sude Nexus programme combines five days of intensive professional training with a structured arrival day and a cultural excursion day. The outline below gives a general sense of the week. We are always open to tailoring the programme to your needs.
Participants arrive at their chosen destination and are welcomed by the Sude Nexus local team. Check-in to accommodation, welcome pack distribution and an informal welcome dinner. A brief orientation walk introduces the city.
Guided cultural excursion to a key landmark of the destination. Participants travelling home are free to depart after breakfast.
This outline is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Contact us to discuss how we can tailor this programme for your institution.
EU Policy Alignment
Erasmus+ 2026 Horizontal Priorities
EU Competence Frameworks
EU Policy Initiatives
Available Locations and Dates
This course is available across all 13 Sude Nexus destinations. Check the dates page for current availability.
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