A.B. Sideridis and Ch. Z. Patrikakis (Eds.): e-Democracy 2009, LNICST 26, pp. 320–328, 2010. © Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2010 Evaluating a Greek National Action on Parents' Training on ICT and Internet Safety Nikos Manouselis 1 , Katerina Riviou 2, * , Nikos Palavitsinis 1 , Vasiliki Giannikopoulou 1 , and Panayotis Tsanakas 1 1 Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET S.A.), Athens, Greece {palavitsinis,nikosm}@grnet.gr 2 Doukas School S.A., Athens, Greece kriviou@doukas.gr Abstract. The Greek national action “Goneis.gr” educates and trains the par- ents of highschool children on the issue of safer internet, as well as on the use of ICT. Having trained more than 28.300 parents, the initiative aims at provid- ing about 45.000 parents with the same training. Examining the Beneficiaries’ degree of satisfaction by the initiative, we conducted a survey in a sample of Beneficiaries that completed the training. This paper introduces the initiative and presents the results of the survey in order to conclude to specific decisions about the future implementation of the initiative which is still running. Keywords: Training, parents, ICT, internet. 1 Introduction In summer 2008, a Greek national action called “Goneis.gr: Training the Parents of Highschool Pupils on ICT and Safer Internet” (http://www.goneis.gr) was launched. The “Goneis.gr” (meaning Parents.gr) initiative aims at educating and training the parents of highschool children on the issue of safer Internet. It also educates parents on how they can protect of their children from online threats. This initiative is co-funded by the Greek Ministry of Economy and Finance and the European Union. More specifically, it concerns the training of the parents of students that enrolled in the obligatory second grade education of Greece (middle school – from 11 to 14 years old) for the school year 2008-2009. It is being implemented by the Greek Research & Technology Network (GRNET), in cooperation with the Minis- try of Economy & Finance and the Ministry of Education. The initiative has a budget of 21MEuros and has provided training to over 43.000 parents so far, through 852 Educational Service Providers. It started in summer of 2008 and is ongoing until the end of spring 2009, aiming to train about 45.000 parents all over Greece [2, 3]. Beneficiaries of the programme are the parents of pupils that are enrolled in one of the three years of any type of high school (daily, experimental, musical, etc.), private or public. Beneficiaries of the programme are also the parents of students that study in schools for challenged children. This initiative aims at familiarizing the parents with * Funded by GRNET during the implementation of this study.