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
ySKILLS Final Conference
Are children skilled enough for the digital world? The ySKILLS project is coming to a close and we are hosting our final dissemination conference in Leuven, Belgium on 30 November.
Time and place: Nov. 30, 2023 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM, Irish College, Leuven / Zoom
Final Conference in Leuven
During this event, we will present our research findings regarding the current state of digital literacy among children and young people in Europe. Additionally, we will bridge the gap between our empirical data and European-level policies and legislation. We have arranged a programme featuring a combination of brief presentations and panel discussions where practitioners, policymakers, and researchers will engage in dialogue.
If you are able to attend in person, there will also be ample networking opportunities!
The ySKILLS Final Conference will take place at the Irish College in Leuven. It will also be possible to stream the conference live on Zoom, registration is free but required.
Agenda
- Registration and networking
- Welcome address by Leen d'Haenens - coordinator ySKILLS
- Presenting the ySKILLS model, David Smahel
- Digital skills, ySKILLS research findings, trends over three years, Natalia Waechter and Hana Machakova
- Digital skills and vulnerable groups,
- Digital skills and vulnerabilities, Giovanna Mascheroni
- Young people's online engagement and mental health: What is the role of digital skills? Mariya Stoilova
- Young refugees: Digital skills for precarious lives, Myria Georgiu
- A fresh approach to measuring digital skills
- Introducing the yDSI, Ellen Helsper
- Panel discussion addressing approaches to measuring digital skills, Chair: Hans Martens - European Schoolnet
- Listening to children's voices and involving educational practitioners
- Doing research with children, Bieke Zaman
- The ySKILLS educational toolkit, Cristina Ponte
- Panel discussion with educational practitioners, Chair: Verónica Donoso
- Keynote address by Kim van Sparrentak - European Parliament
- Children's rights in the digital world, Sonia Livingstone
- Discussant: Fabiola Bas Palomares - Eurochild
- Bridging research and policy, Niamh Ni Bhroin
- Panel discussion - From recommendations to actions, Chair: Leen d'Haenens
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