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Description: Promoting online safety among children and youth faces two significant barriers: i) when confronted with situations that make them feel bothered or in distress, youngsters find it difficult to ask for guidance and help from adults; ii) from a child and youth centred perspective, guidance and support needs in regard to these issues remain fairly unknown. This project will: i) produce a thorough understanding of needs and motivations concerning online safety, from a children and youth centred perspective; ii) evaluate the viability of using smartphone apps to adress these demands. An app will be conceived, developed and tested in close collaboration with groups of children and teens. A preliminary distribution and pilot study will be conducted at the four municipalities in the study. Other applications will be reviewed through documental analysis and user reviews.