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Our overarching aim
To enhance and maximise 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
Objective 1:
To acquire extensive knowledge and better measurement of digital skills.
Objective 2:
To develop and test an innovative, evidence-based explanatory and foresight model predicting the complex impacts of ICT use and digital skills on children’s cognitive, psychological, physical and social wellbeing.
Objective 3:
To explain the ways in which at-risk children (in terms of mental health, ethnic or cultural origin, SES and gender) can benefit from online opportunities despite their risk factors (material, social, psychological).
Objective 4:
To generate insightful evidence-based recommendations and strategies for key stakeholder groups to promote digital skills and wellbeing.
Our approach
ySKILLS proposes a holistic, child-centric approach to understanding how use of the internet has variable consequences for children’s rights to participation, information, freedom of expression, education, and play, and to protection from harm.
NEWS
This ySKILLS newsletter gives an overview of the findings and activities from the previous months of the ySKILLS project.
ySKILLS webinar:
Youth mental health and internet use
This webinar discusses one of the four in-depth studies of the ySKILLS project, focusing on youth mental health and internet use.
Empowering Young Refugees through Digital Skills:
Key Insights from a Policy Roundtable Discussion
On June 19th, the ySKILLS project organised a policy roundtable to present the key findings from our qualitative study with young refugees in Belgium, Greece, and the UK. This gathering served as a platform for collaborative contemplation on potential avenues to support young refugees to take full advantage of the opportunities that the online world can offer to them.
Consortium
The ySKILLS consortium includes 16 partners who will actively engage in meeting the objectives of the project. To achieve these objectives, ySKILLS brings together leading international centres for research on media studies, communication sciences, youth research, psychology, pedagogy, law, educational neuroscience and sociology.
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Related projects
As part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, ySKILLS, as well as other related projects has received funding to enhance and maximise long-term positive impact of the ICT environment on multiple aspects of wellbeing for all children. Here are some fellow projects:
