The Program provides an opportunity for kindergartens that need online presence to make their activity visible and to share information about daily kindergarten life quickly and efficiently and communicate their values.

The Program started in 2018, since that, every year, 100 kindergartens / nurseries have been eligible for free website services for three years. The service includes hosting, an own domain name, and the use of a website builder, all with a training course and support.

The tender is published every year in May (with regard to Children’s Day). By January 2022, there are 340 active websites, with more than 4 million views.

https://digitalisgyermekvedelem.hu/okos-ovoda

• Hungary

This project is easily replicable even by involving more kindergartens and preschools or other institutions with no online presence (such as district nurse system, pediatricians etc.) The program is also easily replicable in other countries because it has no special requirements.

The project is sustainable, since new institutions are easy to involve, furthermore, the maintenance of the websites is easy.

The Smart Kindergarten Program helps people to access information easily. For families – especially during the pandemy – it is very difficult to get information about the kindergarten, which is obligatory for all 3-6-year-old children in Hungary. The Program includes a research part, called DigiMini; The aim of the research is: (1) to understand the smart device use habits, motivations, desires, emotions, attitudes, rules of media use of preschoolers at home and at the kindergarten, (2) to assess the practice and attitudes of preschool teachers, (3) planning interventions. The project also includes educational parts; the webpages are made by the kindergarten teachers themselves (already 398 kindergarten teachers attended the preparatory course). The owner of the Program, the Digital Child Protection Strategy of Hungary shares articles about child online protection topic on the webpages. The Digital Succes Programme – Digital Child Protection Strategy of Hungary is a governmental organization. With this project, the use of Internet is actively promoted as a fundamental working tool, as well as the first step for the kindergarten generation’s official “online presence”.