LLLPlatform Digital Working Group, Brussels, January 1st 2018

Pauline Boivin

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Brikena Xhomaqi

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Key Facts

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Key Facts

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• Around half of 11-16 year-olds in the EU have encountered one or more of the most frequent internet risks.

• 51% of European citizens do not feel informed about how to deal with cyber threats.

There is an urgent need to raise public awareness of the potential risks of being online and to develop skills to act in safe and responsible ways.

European Political Context

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Digital Education Action Plan (2018) – Action 7 « This action aims to increase awareness of the risks faced when being online and to support capacity building of educators in online safety”.

The European Strategy for a Better internet for children

New Skill Agenda for Europe

DELTA Working Group and the New Commission

EU Programmes: Erasmus+, European Social Funds, Digital Europe

LLLP Work on Digital Education

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Digital competences are not just needed for the labour market but as well for life!

Cross-sector and multi-level cooperation is needed

Policies that respond to all educators’ and learners’ needs

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“People are at the heart of the process and they should

be able to actively regulate their own learning, training

and upskilling without being reduced to passive

consumers of technology”

- LLLP Position Paper, Reimagining education for the digital age (2017)

DIGIT Policy Recommendations

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Provide the necessary resources and tools to educators in order to shapeup ‘responsible internet users’

Boost educators’ competences in order to help people understand digital issues, implications, side effects and misuse

Ease the learning process in a family context to raise responsible future digital citizens

Provide the right instruments for citizens in order to promote conscious use of the broader concept of online identity

DIGIT Policy Recommendations

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The European Strategy for a Better Internet for Children should be extended to

adults!

Boosting digital footprint awareness and competences should become a policy

and funding priority in Erasmus+, Digital Education Action Plan, DELTA WG

More consistencies and synergies across policy sectors at EU and national levels

Mainstream courses on digital footprint-related issues in formal education (digital

citizenship, online identity management, online safety and on side effects of

internet use)

Thank you for your attention!Life

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With the financial support of: