Commissioner Gabriel’s opening message for the DigiGen policy forum
The online DigiGen policy forum on 22 June 2021 was opened by a message from Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth. Full transcript: Ladies and gentlemen,I am glad to have this opportunity to open the DigiGen...
From digital natives to European digital citizens – Victor Negrescu
By Victor Negrescu, vice-chair of the Culture and Education Committee of the European Parliament and co-chair of the European Education Alliance. Former Romanian EU affairs minister and university lecturer. European youth is digital native. Using computers and the...
DigiGen mid-term policy forum 22 June 2021
Online policy forum: Sharing information, needs and expectations on policies and practices for the digital generation June 2021 marks the mid-term point of the DigiGen project which is why on 22 June 2021 we are organising the DigiGen Policy Forum which will take...
Preparing a digital future for families: highlights of a United Nations background report – Susan K. Walker
By Dr. Susan Walker, Associate Professor of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota (skwalker@umn.edu) I was honored to prepare a background report on Families and New Technologies, with a focus on parenting education and work-family balance for the...
Involving children and young people as co-researchers through digital diaries
How is the digital transformation affecting the leisure time of children and young people across Europe? In DigiGen we involve children and young people as co-researchers. One of the tools we use to do this are digital diaries. The digital diary is downloaded by our...
Digital Citizenship Plus seminar series
DigiGen researchers are joining colleagues in Hong Kong for the Digital Citizenship Plus (DC+) seminar series. The DC+ seminar series, an initiative of the Learning and Assessment for Digital Citizenship project that is conducted jointly by colleagues of the Faculty...
New working paper compares ICT use in young people’s civic participation in Estonia, Greece, and the UK
With its focus on civic participation, DigiGen investigates the socio-economic, gendered, and political culture-related issues influencing the digital political engagement of young people. In our latest report ‘Online political behaviour and ideological production by...
DigiGen’s Birgit Eickelmann in online dialogue on digital education with Angela Merkel
The German chancellor Angela Merkel has made digital education and the question of how to ensure that all children and young people benefit from digitalisation a top priority. Together with the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Anja Karliczek, she therefore...
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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