The web plays a main function in many people’s daily lives– whether when looking for a new job or an apartment or condo, for shopping or for remaining in touch with good friends. As far as social participation is worried, knowing how to use the web and what hazards or advantages digital media present are becoming progressively essential. That is why the European “All Digital Week” campaign has set itself the task of reaching out to specifically those individuals affected by digital exemption and bringing them on board. The project likewise consists of occasions focused on preventing and raising awareness of hazards on the web such as misinformation and bullying.
“Get Online Week” belongs to those European project and has been arranged by TU Dortmund University as an annual teaching-learning project at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences considering that 2015. Under the guidance of Dr. Bastian Pelka and in partnership with the Social Proving Ground Dortmund, Bachelor’s trainees of the Rehabilitation Pedagogy degree program style their own workshops on web topics, with the objective of promoting individuals’ digital skills in the long term and in this way mitigating exemption. Workshop subjects consist of dealing with digital threats such as fake profiles and bullying along with strategies for finding accommodation or tasks on the internet. At German Digital Day in 2022, the project received the audience award in the “Digital Participation” classification. In 2025, the students held 44 courses in 20 institutions in Dortmund and drew in over 700 participants for the first time. This increase represents almost double the yearly variety of around 400 participants.
Workshops aim to reinforce the digital skills of kids and grownups
The courses on prevention in the digital world happened in schools, leisure and domestic facilities, and protected workshops. They covered four topics: In the course on cyberbullying, trainees taught schoolchildren how to recognize and handle cyberbullying. In a 2nd course, which focused on sexual violence on the web, professionals operating in education discovered how to develop trust and assistance kids and youths more effectively in this delicate area. In a third workshop, committed to charm ideals on social networks, school trainees were encouraged to take an important view of these suitables and their results. In a fourth course, which fixated sensitive content, moms and dads discovered the various types of hazardous content, for example depictions of violence or suicide, that children can be faced with on social networks and how they can protect their children. At the end of “Get Online Week”, the trainees evaluated the courses and recorded their findings in a scientific report.
The next edition of “Get Online Week” will occur in April 2026, again under the leadership of Dr. Bastian Pelka from the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences.
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