About the project
Digitisation is changing society. Communication technology strongly impacts children's and adolescents' wellbeing. In order to benefit from new technologies, new skill sets are required.
The overarching aim is to enhance and maximise the long-term positive impact of the ICT environment on multiple aspects of wellbeing for all children by stimulating resilience through the enhancement of digital skills.
Objectives
- To acquire extensive knowledge and better measurement of digital skills.
- To develop and test an innovative, evidence-based model predicting the complex impacts of ICT use and digital skills on children’s cognitive, psychological, physical and social wellbeing.
- To explain the ways in which at-risk children, in terms of mental health, ethnic or cultural origin, socio-economic status, and gender, can benefit from online opportunities despite their material, social and psychological risk factors.
- To generate insightful evidence-based recommendations and strategies for key stakeholder groups to promote digital skills and wellbeing.
Final conference
Event page for YSKILLS Final Conference
Financing
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 870612. Our website reflects only the authors’ views and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.
Cooperation
- KU Leuven
- London School of Economics
- Masaryk University
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- University of Helsinki
- University of Vienna
- LMU München
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa
- University of Tartu
- Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
- University of Twente
- Ghent University
- Aarhus University
- European Schoolnet (EUN Partnership)
Duration
01.01.2020 - 31.12.2023