Project researches mainly aim to: (1) Provide support to background of project products by collecting scientific and managerial information on digital issues, which is the continuation of the discussion of online security and healthy digital life that raises the project proposal; (2) Identify trends in efforts to overcome the problems positively about internet and mobile communication technologies, offering rich opportunities for entertainment, learning, creativity, socialization and exploration, thereby creating a broader basis throughout Europe; (3) Better understand the problems that children/youth face in digital age and the new skills they need through discussions about healthy digital life and online safety; (4) Discuss how to reduce risks encountered while interacting with digital technologies by detecting hazards; (5) Synthesis of relevant policy and curriculum outcomes through the panoramas from countries about issues where digital life can be source of concern and efforts to overcome them; (6) Find evidence on the relationship between healthy digital life and learning success; (7) Increase the knowledge of digital problems and make academic circulation available; (8) Produce solutions on new application requirements with possible policy and application changes.
HD-LIFE Posters were presented under the title 'Alternative Learning Tools in the Development of Children's Digital Literacy' at the World Children Conference held on October 23-25, 2020.
HD-LIFE's Healthy Digital Life Guide was presented at International Symposium of Education and Values –4 held on December 24-26, 2020, titled as 'A Practical Modeling Example in Building Digital Competence: Healthy Digital Life Guide'.
The first research findings of HD-LIFE were presented in Erasmus International Academic Research Symposium held in Izmir on 5-6 April 2019 with the title: ‘School Community Members’ Digital Life Outlook: An Overview of Research Findings of HD-LIFE Project’.
The pedagogical and theoretical design of HD-LIFE short films was presented at the 3rd International EMI Entrepreneurship & Social Sciences Congress. The presentation, which was prepared by Hakan Aydın and Fikret Yazıcı and aimed to discuss the pedagogical and theoretical structure of the 5 short films within the framework of the planned achievements, was awarded as the best paper.
HD-LIFE’s HD Learning Content Management Database was presented under the title 'HD Learning Content Management Database as a Professional Development and Open Education Resource Service' on 23-27 October 2019 at the International Basic Education Congress (UTEK 2019) along with 13 national and international universities hosted by Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University Faculty of Education and Child Education Application and Research Center.
The HD-Life project’s Learning/Teaching/Training Activity
Was held in Barcelona University, Spain between 29 September and 03 October 2019. In the activity where 17 representatives from the consortium members were present; participants acquired a broader point of view related to digital problems that has became varied and turned out to be a global issue; in addition, the participants advanced their capabilities to a more useful and up to its point on the use of the outputs from the project.
I. Transnational Project Meeting
It was held On 25 January 2019, in Kayseri Police House. The meeting was attended by representatives of Erciyes University, Kayseri Police Department, University of Cologne and Barcelona University on behalf of the Project Consortium. In the meeting, the agenda was to discuss following: explanations about Turkish National Agency's project management approach and implementation, project objectives, approach and expected results, methodological framework for the research activities and project visibility applications’ methodological framework.
It was held on 26 April 2019 at University of Cologne. Representatives attended the meeting from Erciyes University, Kayseri Security Directorate, Barcelona University and Köln University on behalf of the project consortium. In the meeting, the results of the research activities that had been carried out with a multiple methodological design to provide support data to the background information of the project products were discussed.
The European Commission's communication for European human rights, which is expressed as the new skills agenda for Europe, to work together to strengthen employability and competition, suggests ways to address the challenges faced by Europe. The aim is that everyone has the most important authority set for personal development, social inclusion, active citizenship and employment. The key components of the digital competence, which are among these competencies, are also summarized by the European Commission in 5 areas. One of them is “Security”. Security aims to understand risks and threats in digital environments, to know security measures and to take the reliability and privacy into account, to avoid the risks and threats of physical and psychological health while using digital technologies, to protect themselves and others against possible dangers in digital environments and to protect personal data and privacy in digital environments. In data and information literacy; the expected competencies are listed as comparing, critically evaluating and analyzing information the reliability of the sources of digital content; also analyzing and making critical analysis of the data, information and digital content.
Research findings related to the subject increase the importance of these two competences in a strategic way, and especially reveal the need to control the use of the internet at secondary level young people and to direct them to their own education and lives. According to these studies, the problematic sides of the students' relationship with the internet affect their academic success negatively. The project is based on this problem, and as it moves to a more independent stage with the secondary school level, it has identified secondary school students as the primary target group because they have become more confident and more secure internet users. The project will enable target group members to manage and / or develop digital awareness of their problems: (a) Training primarily important teachers (advisors) who will be able to respond to their healthy digital life needs, and (b) raising awareness of themselves and their parents. The specific aspect of the project is that it does not address digital issues on a single level, as in the case of internet addiction. The project approaches the digital problems through a holistic perspective and acts from the health concept.
The project, which has been designed as 24 months, consists of a comprehensive research activity that will be carried out with a multi-methodological design to provide support for background information of project products, which is the continuation of the discussion of online security and healthy digital life, which in the first place reveals the project proposal. The second category includes internet and mobile communication technologies that may be a source of concern and their production related to the efforts to overcome these problems positively and their usage and dissemination activities. The final phase is complementary and includes the set of activities for disseminating the project on the sectoral and geographical axis.
Founded initially as Kayseri University in 1978, Erciyes University today serves with 19 Faculties, 7 Institutes, 1 High School, 2 Vocational Schools, 39 Research Centers, nearly 65,000 students and approximately 2300 academic staff.
160 universities from Turkey have been involved in at least one of the overall rankings in 10 different world rankings published in 2017. These sorting systems are Webometrics, SCIMago, US News and World Report, QS, THE, Leiden (CWTS), CWUR, RUR, ARWU and URAP. According to a study conducted by URAP, 17 universities in Turkey have been ranked by at least 6 out of 10 institutions which carried out the rankings worldwide.
According to the results, Erciyes University was ranked 9th among the universities in Turkey by taking part in 8 ranking systems. In 2016, Erciyes University was ranked in 6 ranking systems. 22 universities from Turkey have been among the best universities in Asia in the ranking of Asia 2018 which is conducted with the corporate data for 2016.
According to these results, ERÜ recorded a significant achievement by being listed in the best 201-250; it was listed as 12th in Turkey universities, and recorded as 8th among the state universities. Erciyes University was also named as Research University by the Council of Higher Education and it was among the top 10 universities of Turkey.
The University of Cologne is one of the largest universities in Germany, with nearly 45,000 students in six faculties and nearly 500 professors. It is also the largest teacher education institution in Europe with over 10,000 students currently enrolled in teacher education. In addition, the university offers educational opportunities for students who will work in educational settings outside schools. At the same time, the university is continuously participating in numerous national and international research projects. E-Learning is one of the flagship of the university.
Barcelona University has been the leading center of education, science and critical thinking since it was founded in 1450. The University of Barcelona, which has gained considerable recognition both in and outside of Spain with its quality of education and research, successfully combines its obligation to serve the local community and the country's interests with its distinctive, dynamic, constructive and humanistic character that penetrates the daily activities of the institution. More than 64,000 students are enrolled in the six campuses of Barcelona University each year. More than 20 million euros have been provided to the University for 61 research projects from the European Commission Horizon 2020.
Order and security services carried out by Kayseri Provincial Directorate of Security are one of the leading public services in terms of maintaining public life in peace and order. In order to increase the efficiency and quality of this service, which is carried out within the framework of professional and technological approaches, projects are carried out by the relevant units with a scientific sub-structure, a defined goal and the results that need to be achieved. One of the critical departments operating within the organization is the Department of Cybercrime. Along with changing and developing technology, crimes have been started to be processed through information systems. Since 2012, it has been serving with expertise personnel in order to prevent crime from using information systems. 
At the same time, it has been designated as the Regional Center for Forensic Information Services; it operates in Yozgat, Sivas, Nevsehir and Kırşehir. It investigates and perpetuates the evidences in digital materials sent from judicial and security units of these provinces.
