Children and young people share their experiences with ICT in education during COVID-19
Although DigiGen is not a COVID-19 project, the reality of the situation compels us to examine children’s experiences of using ICT in education during this distinctive period. As a result, a new working paper presents results from the exploratory Pilot Study COVID-19...
Children’s digital rights in the EU’s digital decade – June Lowery-Kingston
By June Lowery-Kingston, Head of Unit Accessibility, Multilingualism & Safer Internet, and Deputy to the Director, Data, DG CONNECT, European Commission ‘The pandemic has exposed how crucial digital technologies and skills are to work, study and engage – and where...
New chapter published on “The digital generation: Representations of a generational digital divide”
The DigiGen project focuses on ‘the digital generation’ but who are they? This concept is explored and challenged through the new chapter “The Digital Generation: Representations of a generational digital divide” by DigiGen researchers Idunn Seland and Christer...
Digital diversity across Europe: Recommendations to ensure children across Europe equally benefit from digital technology
The ongoing digital transformations today bring along the risk of new digital divides between those with access, skills and motivation to use new technologies and those without. The consequences may lead to new forms of social disadvantages and inequalities. For...
DigiGen team meets to kick off the second half of the project
The DigiGen team came together online on 2 and 3 September during their fifth consortium meeting hosted by the team members from the Paderborn University in Germany. The meeting encouraged an open exchange on data analysis and policy implications as the project...
Opportunities and dangers of digital technologies: The views of children and young people on their leisure time behaviour – Andreas Chmielowski
By Andreas Chmielowski, MSc., PhD student at the Department of Economics at the University of Gothenburg. Andreas was a research associate at AIF until late August, where his research focused on the influence of information and communication technologies on the...
Educational use of digital technology to achieve social success – Catalonia’s approach
By Mar Camacho Martí, General Director of Innovation, Research and Digital Culture, Ana Albalat Martínez, Deputy Director of Innovation, Research and Digital Culture, and Roser Cussó Calabuig, Head of the Digital Culture Area at the Department of Education of the...
Digital policy forum – Triangle of research, policy and practice
On 22 June 2021, DigiGen hosted its mid-term policy forum online bringing together key policy, academic, and practice stakeholders working on securing safer and more beneficial use of digital technologies for children and young people. Participants came from across...
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870548.
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