Santiago de Compostela, November 9, 2025
The Xunta de Galicia has just launched the educational program Children connected: digital education in cyber security and privacywhich includes a total of 250 training workshops aimed at families in order to provide them with tools and knowledge that allow them to accompany and guide their children in the safe, responsible and beneficial use of technologies in the family and recreational sphere.
With this new program, framed in the Galician School Coexistence Strategy 2025, the Galician Government reinforces the fundamental role that the family environment plays in advancing well-being and coexistence with new technologies, while promoting the commitment to hybrid teaching in Galicia, where traditional learning methods are combined with digital ones, taking advantage of the potential offered by the latter. Precisely, regarding the consolidation of this model, one of the points that is emphasized is the work with families in terms of information, digital well-being and security.
Along these lines, the Department of Education, Science, Universities and Vocational Training and the Agency for Technological Modernization of Galicia (Amtega) have just opened the call for educational centers to join this program, which consists of an eminently practical workshop in which the safe and responsible management of electronic devices and social networks that minors usually use will be addressed.
Centers have until November 25 to submit applications via email Asesoria.participacióneducativa@edu.xunta.gal.
Families of students between 10 and 18 years old
Connected minors It is aimed at families of students between 10 and 18 years old, who will be able to participate in the workshops through their reference educational center.
The workshops, one per center, will take place between December of this year and June 2026. These are face-to-face training sessions lasting one and a half hours for groups of between ten and fifty people, which will be taught by specialists.
They will address issues such as the most frequent digital risks and their prevention, how to configure privacy and security tools on social networks, video games and mobile devices, explore options for digital support and supervision, discover strategies to manage screen time in a healthy way and understand the digital footprint, as well as how to teach minors to take care of their privacy on the Internet. All of this will be accompanied by practical resources so that families can apply what they have learned immediately.
This program is part of the Xunta’s set of actions to improve hybrid teaching in Galicia, which covers content, teacher training, digital well-being of students, security and management, as well as training and information for families. Precisely now, in response to a demand from the families themselves, this last point is reinforced with the development of specific training actions for mothers and fathers in the schools themselves. It is, therefore, about reinforcing your digital knowledge to generate greater confidence and security in the use of new technologies.
