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UKE’s projects with two awards at the WSIS Prizes 2026 competition

As many as two educational projects, carried out by UKE, have received awards and distinguished recognitions in the prestigious WSIS Prizes 2026 competition. In this year’s edition, both of our initiatives, submitted in two categories – the so-called WSIS Action Lines – have been awarded the titles of Champion and Nominee. Both initiatives, in two different categories, gained recognition from an international panel of experts.

UKE’s project entitled Click sensibly – child safety in the age of artificial intelligence, has been recognised as the WSIS Prizes 2026 Champion in category C.4, Capacity Building. The “Click sensibly” project is a series of interactive webinars for pupils in primary schools, from grades 1 to 8. UKE’s aim is to educate children and teenagers how to use the Internet consciously and responsibly, protect their data and online image, and make sensible use of artificial intelligence tools. We focus on modern technologies, exposing the mechanisms of AI manipulation, deepfakes and the risks posed by an uncontrolled digital footprint. The coordination, logistics and entire content of the webinars for over 290,000 participants have been carried out by UKE’s team of just five people, comprising: Milena Górecka, Aneta Czarnecka, Katarzyna Dudzik, Agnieszka Osełka and Małgorzata Tymińska. This result demonstrates that we are capable of operating with efficiency, flexibility and commitment whilst delivering projects on a national scale. This success is the result of many years of work, experience and the consistent development of initiatives promoting digital education. The success of the “Klikam z głową” (“Click sensibly”) project is the result of the commitment, expertise and hard work of the team behind the initiative, which has been working for years to promote digital education and the safe use of the internet.

The second of UKE’s projects, nominated for an award in category C.10 ‘Ethical Dimensions of the Information Society’, entitled “Virtual World for All”, is aimed in particular at children, young people and people with special needs. The project comprises two types of activity:

• raising awareness and sensitivity to the needs of people with special needs, including those with disabilities, as well as amongst the youngest children (pre-school children and pupils at primary and secondary schools);
• educational activities on online safety, aimed at people with intellectual disabilities and those with autism spectrum conditions.

The awards for both projects have been personally received on 9 and 10 July in Geneva by Karol Krzywicki, Deputy President of UKE, during the awards ceremony for Nominees and Champions, alongside Dorota Grudzień-Barbachowska and Katarzyna Dudzik. We are one of 90 projects to have been recognised as Champions and one of 360 Nominees out of nearly 1,600 projects submitted in total for this year’s WSIS Prizes. Over 2.2 million votes have been cast online during the selection process for all projects.