Presentation of e-COM 4 CHILDREN training materials in Prague

The first multiplier event of the project was held on 18 June, where the e-COM 4 CHILDREN training materials were presented and the challenges of e-commerce of children's products faced by businesses, consumer organisations and consumer authorities were presented. The Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy) highlighted the importance of building consumer trust when it comes to online sales, and how product safety can be a decisive factor for purchase. The Association for the Promotion of Child Safety (APSI) from Portugal explained the key aspects of consumer rights in online commerce and AIJU provided an overview of the European legal framework applicable to children's products from a product safety perspective. The University of Alicante, with its presentation, highlighted the potential of MOOCs as flexible, open and free training tools for companies. We would also like to thank the Czech Toy Association (SHH) for organising the event and for their contribution to the event with the needs of the industry in the field of e-commerce of safe children's products. This event…

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Third meeting of the e-COM 4 CHILDREN project partners on 3 October in Italy.

On 3 October, we met at the Università Pollitecnica delle Marche in Ancona (Italy) to make further progress in the production of training materials on e-commerce of safe children's products and to initiate the development of the interactive comic, which is aimed at consumers and is intended as the first practical guide to online shopping for safe children's products.

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Training activity at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona (Italy).

A short joint training activity for staff of the project partners took place from 3 to 6 July 2018. The main objective of this meeting was to exchange knowledge between the partners in order to address the challenges faced by staff from industry, consumer associations and consumer authorities when dealing with e-commerce of safe children's products.

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