Deliverables
Synthesis of findings from country case studies will provide a comparative account of how family members in different national contexts negotiate ICT usage and interpret its impact on the family overall and its members individually The synthesis will also include a methodological report providing insights into how to conduct participatory research within family settings particularly when it comes to early childhoodLead Partner AIF Participants OsloMet UBB TLU and COFACE Duration Months 25 28
"Policy recommendations including NSC inputs (8,000-10,000 words). Presented as Working Paper 7.1 Provisional title ""Policies for tackling digital transformation of young lives in Europe"""Summarizing results for policy use This task aims to build an evidencebased foundation for policy recommendations the findings and process of DigiGen will be analysed in close collaboration with the CMs and WP leaders and will include feedback from NSC and IAC members Lead partner OsloMet Additional participants All Consortium Members Duration 1136
Comparative report on students' assessments of ICT in education (about 5,000 words). Presented as DigiGen working paper 5.1 with the working title ‘Students Narratives and perceptions of ICT in education in selected European countries'Qualitative data on ICT usage in schools The goal is to get a broader picture of ICT use among children and young people in primary and secondary schools in a range of European countries using a longitudinal and innovative study design in a selection of the following countries Germany Norway Greece Estonia and Romania The design will comprise substudies with two different timings of data collection before and after transition into a new formal educational phase upper primary and lower secondary education Narrative reports from young people in both upper primary and lower secondary education N30Interviews with students N30 teachers N30 and stakeholders N15 in both upper primary and lower secondary educationLead Partner UPB Participants OsloMet UPSPS UBB and TLU Duration 434Video material produced by students N30 with students interviewing younger students and teacher candidates from universities focusing on ICT use and experiences This material will be produced within the organisation of workshops facilitated by researchers in each participating country ie Germany Norway Greece Estonia and Romania The material produced will feed into the development of the content of the video game prototype ie storyboards in collaboration with the game developers at UPSPS see WP4Lead Partner UPB Participants OsloMet UPSPS UBB TLU and COFACE Duration 1228
Comparative report (about 6,000 words). Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 6.2 with the provisional title ‘Multimodal research: Youth becoming digital citizens'Focus group discussions organised as digital storytelling workshops with young people involved in the production of online political discourse with the aim of identifying how they are affected by the online environment of their choice and key strands in youth ideological online production Within the workshops the My View application will be used as a tool for the coproduction of relevant material that will inform on the motivations causes and means that young people find appropriate and meaningful for what they perceive as civic participation as digital citizens In each of the three countries researchers will hold 23 workshops with 68 participants in each workshop Lead Partner UOL Participants UPSPS and TLU Duration 1220
Policy Brief (about 3,000-5,000 words) on Children's use of technologies, digital citizenship and wellbeingPolicy analysis to critically assess digital citizenship in educational systems The analysis will be conducted in the three countries the UK Greece and Estonia focusing on the inclusion and promotion of digital citizenship The focus will be on policy documents by government bodies educational organisations and civil society actors The results from findings in Tasks 61 and 62 will be used to inform the analysis and contribute to policy recommendations WPs78 Lead Partner UOL Participants UPSPS TLU and COFACE Duration 1228
ICT-use in Europe – A literature review: overview on families, at-risk-groups in Europe. (about 8,000 words). Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 2.1 with the provisional title ‘ICT usage across Europe: An overview of existing data’Review existing databases at European and national level within the Consortium that provide information on the online behaviour of children and young people A detailed account of the information contained in different databases will be provided The extent to which different databases from different participating countries are comparable will also be explored allowing for crosscountry comparative analysis Moreover this task will identify the type of relevant information on ICT usage that is lacking from current surveys and will provide concrete recommendations for the incorporation of variables or modules that could enrich future analyses Lead Partner UdG Participants OsloMet UPSPS UOL AIF UPB UBB TLU Duration Months 1 8
Scientific report on ICT usage and childcare (about 8,000 words). Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 3.3 with the provisional title ‘Is there a childcare digital divide?'Motivations to use ICT at home and childcare The goal here is to understand how ICT has made it possible for some parents to work from home part of the week saving commuting time and potentially having additional time for childcare Thus new forms of employment can potentially have an effect on childrens wellbeing But is there a childcare digital divide Different data sources will be considered including the European Union Labour Force Survey EULFS Lead Partner UdG Duration Months 23 30
Report on Policy Forums (about 6,000 words) and policy annex. Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 8.1 with provisional title ‘Policy forum report on the impact of ICT on children and young people'Development publication and targeted distribution of Policy Briefs Policy Recommendations and Research Briefings COFACE will work closely with work package leaders to produce a series of policy briefs from WPs 27 formulating them according to the relevant audiences eg EC Member States education child and family and ICT ministries and relevant institutions civil society academia see Section 221 The recommendations will be printed on separate leaflets and uploaded on the website The policy briefs will be produced over the course of the project summarising findings on key issues of public concern and addressed to a policy practitioner and wider public audience uploaded to the website and circulated at academic stakeholder and public events Lead Partner COFACE and OsloMet Additional participants All partners Duration month 10 36Organise implement and evaluate a midterm and end of project Policy Forum at European level Lead partners COFACE AIF and OsloMet will organise a midterm Policy Forum in Vienna Month 17 and as part of the Final Conference in Brussels Month 36 which will include a policy roundtable with EC policy officers see section 31 Table 31d A report including evaluation will be written by lead partners COFACE AIF and OsloMet D81 including a policy annex Lead Partner COFACE AIF and OsloMet Additional participants All partners Duration month 1536
Comparative report (about 6,000 words). Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 6.1 with the provisional title ‘Online political behaviour and ideological production by young people'Conducting netnography of online civic participation This task will focus on how young people make use of blogs websites of youth organisations and social media networks in relation to their online civic participation An emphasis will be placed on how socioeconomic gender and political culturerelated factors influence young peoples online civic participation Fieldwork will include the following research methods Discourse and semiotic analysis of youth narratives images including videos with an emphasis on the role of young people in producing online content and Online interviews with young people as users in the UK Greece and Estonia 1020 youth in each country Lead Partner UOL Participants UPSPS and TLU Duration 412
Scientific report on ICT usage across Europe with special attention to at-risk groups with regard to their accessibility to ICT due to the socio-economic background (about 10,000 words). Presented as DigiGen Working Paper 2.2 with the provisional title ‘MMap the diversity of ICT use in quantitative and qualitative terms among children and young people across Europe using existing surveys while paying special attention to diversity in terms of age and gender in addition to cultural social and economic background To this purpose data from the international study PIRLS 2016 and TIMSS 2019 Grade 4 primary education and ICILS 2018 Grade 8 as well as the European study ESSIE Grade 8 at least as background and context information will be reanalysed with a specific focus on our research questions Online behaviour use of digital content and access to different devices will be described This secondary analysis of existing data will also aim to identify and analyse atrisk groups with regard to social disadvantages and barriers that determine their accessibility to ICT To the extent that existing data will allow the analysis will also measure potential impacts on digital skills and competencies to learn whether a widening educational divide between advantaged and disadvantaged children and young people is emerging in Europe Lead Partner UdG Participants UPSPS AIF and UPB Duration Months 9 18
Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan (PEDR) (Version 1: Month 12, Mid-term revision: Month 24, Final version: Month 36 will include an Innovation Radar questionnaire.Evaluate the PEDR and develop a ‘continuation strategy’ for post-project. The Communication, dissemination and exploitation plan of the project’s Results (PEDR) will be updated by month 12 (D8.2) and revised throughout the project. The final version will include an evaluation of the dissemination and impact activities and a continuation plan addressing further dissemination of outputs and future collaboration between partners, extending the impact of the project beyond its implementation period (see Section 2.2.6). This will include the recommendation for a prototype (i.e. storyboards) of the game from WP4 which the partners will seek funding beyond the project in order to develop further. In addition, an overall policy brief annex will include a summary of the findings from policy briefs (D2.3, D3.4, D6.3, D7.2) aimed at policy makers. Lead Partner: COFACE and OsloMet. Additional participants: All partners. Duration month 1- 36Patents, investors nor technological development are relevant in this project. The educational toolkits are seen as a type of exploitation targets. The project is not developing any technology as the app that will be used will only be updated for use in the project. The app is jointly owned by OsloMet and the University of Oslo from a previous nationally funded project. Thus, we do not envision any patents or further investors.
Evaluation report from the kick-off meeting and first progress meeting (approx. 52,000 words) summarising the agreements of the Consortium MembersAdministrative Management. Coordinating and overseeing the implementation of the work packages and providing administrative support: • Definition of reporting procedures including information support for Consortium Members regarding documentation and preparation of reports and deliverables (in close collaboration with COFACE Task 8.1, 8.3) • Organisation, implementation and evaluation of Consortium meetings, workshops and conferences, including collaboration with Consortium and Committee Members • Cooperation with the European Commission, including the Research Executive Agency (REA), and maintenance of the project pages on the Funding & Tenders Portal and provision of support to COFACE in maintaining the project website with Intranet, provision of email lists and message board. Lead partner: OsloMet. Additional participants: All Consortium Members. Duration: Months 1-36
Policy Brief (about 3,000-5,000 words) on Digital diversity across EuropePolicy Brief about 30005000 words on Digital diversity across Europe findings in WP 2
"ICT use in Europe in families and leisure time -DigiGen working paper 4.1 with the working title ""Combining innovative methodological tools to approach digital transformations in families and for leisure time among children and young people""."Fieldwork research in Greece Norway Austria Romania and the UK focusing on two age groups 912 years and 1315 years and using the following methodological tools 20 semistructured interviews in each country 100 interviews in total focusing on how children and young people spend their free time using ICTCommunication diaries via the My View application produced by groups of 30 children and young people from selected districts with different sociocultural backgrounds 150 communication diaries in total The diaries will focus on how children use ICT in their leisure time and for what purpose and also how this leisure use affects their wellbeing and mental health An online video game using Minecraft aimed at understanding the ways in which children and young people practice ownership and display their use knowledge and feelings around online games Here we will have groups of 1015 young people in each of the five countries who will be actively involved in both playing the game online and in follow up focus group discussions The groups will be facilitated and moderated by a researcher who will closely collaborate with experienced game developers based in Greece UPSPS Lead Partners UPSPS Participants OsloMet UOL AIF and UBB Duration Months 428 Questionnaires about online leisure time Children and young people spend more time on ICT in school at home and during their leisure time However we know little about how satisfied children are with the use of their free time including the time spent using a computer To investigate this question we will use the three questionnaires of the Childrens Worlds database wwwisciweborg which asks 8 10 and 12 years old children around the world what do they do with their free time and how satisfied they are with it It will be important to know to what extent using a computer determines a certain lifestyle and if it crowds out other activities as spending time with family and friends reading for fun sports or taking classes outside school time Information on general satisfaction with life and wellbeing will be also studied We will try to unravel differences across European countries Lead partner UdG Duration Months 1825
Evaluation report from the closing conference, which includes the ESC report on ethical challenges and risks (approx. 8,000 words) summarising the agreements of the Consortium MembersGender equality monitoring Ensure gender parity in the project Monitor gender balance in both the research study participants and project staff and suggest recommendations if appropriate to ensure parity as far as practical Lead partner OsloMet Duration Months 136
Country reports presenting the findings from the four case studies (about 6,000 words each).Ethnographic case studies in Austria Norway Romania and Estonia on the use of communication technologies within families and the impact on daily family life in the transition from kindergarten age 56 years to primary school age 810 years Data will be collected using three different techniques Use of a multimethod and multiperspective approach 1 conduct 10 focus group discussions in each country with two different age groups 56 years and 810 years each focus group will have 410 children Individual interviews using a problemcentred approach with 10 families in each country Austria Norway Romania and Estonia The goal is to collect insights from at least three family members child parent andor significant others eg older siblings or grandparents max 30 interviews per country focusing on their views of everyday lives practices and social relationships as they relate to ICT use in families Data collection using the My View application to understand different perspectives on ICT use within families The application will be used in each country by 10 families at least 2 family members per family Children and parents will be invited to represent aspects of family life particularly the negotiation of digital media use through snapshotsLead Partner AIF Participants OsloMet UBB TLU Duration Months 9 24
Evaluation report from progress meetings (2-4) (approx. 4,000-5,000 words) summarising the agreements of the Consortium MembersResearch governance and quality management Ensure high quality of project results Establish and maintain a detailed Data Management Plan DMP that will be developed in line with the Guidelines on Data Management in Horizon 2020 with a first draft available at month 6 and updated month 12 and 18 Provide advice and recommendations on ethical issues through the Ethics Subcommittee ESC chaired by Maria Symeonaki UPSPS At the end of the project and in consultation with both IAC members specialising in ethical issues and individual researchers the ESC will review the experiences of ethical risks challenges and solutions and will generate a publicly available report as a resource for future social researchers working in this field of study Establishment of workflows that will guarantee the achievement of highquality project results as planned Coordination of deliverables publications and reports to the REA as well as dissemination materialEstablishment of the data and risk management strategy see sections 22 and 32 and development of appropriate contingency plans in the case of delays and unexpected changes Provision of input by the International Advisory Committee in terms of monitoring and feedback Lead partner OsloMet Additional participants All Consortium Members Duration Months 136
Policy Brief (about 3,000-5,000 words) on The impact of technological transformation on the digital generationAnalysis and linkages with the SDGs Through synthesis and analysis of all research findings this task will revisit the SDGs in order to understand how the different countries are working with many of the childfocused SDGs taking into account the technological transformations taking place The aim is to make recommendations about what national authorities should consider when writing their own reports on the SDGs to the United Nations Lead partner OsloMet Additional participants All Consortium Members Duration 2436
Best practice toolkit/e-learning module for improving practice and policiesDeveloping and testing the best practice toolkitelearning module for improving practice and policies This task is based on the recommendations and findings in WPs 26 In each WP of the DigiGen project it is expected that a large amount of data judgment perspectives and research will emerge This evidence structured as best practices and recommendations is designed to provide direction and evidencebased guidelines for the academic and decisionmaking stakeholders The best practice toolkit will include practice recommendations tailored specifically to education interventions as well as related integration and policy recommendations about ICT related risk resilience and enhancing factors The consortium will test the toolkit in the three of the countries where ethnographic case studies are conducted Greece Germany and Romania Lead partner OsloMet Additional participants UPSPS UPB and UBB Duration 2435
Policy Brief (about 3,000-5,000 words) on Digital transformations on children and familiesPolicy Brief about 30005000 words on Digital transformations on children and families findings in WP 3
Manuscript in preparation or in press on digital transformations of young lives in Europe (60 - 90,000 words)Summarizing the research findings on the impact of technological transformations on the digital generation across national contexts in Europe This task rests on the contribution from all WPs and builds on all the research findings and scientific contributions from the CMs Research results and conclusions will be summarized and reworked in order to produce comprehensive knowledge on children and young peoples use of and how they are affected by technological transformations in their everyday lives across educational institutions at home in their leisure time and transition to work and civic participation Lead Partner OsloMet Additional participants All Consortium Members Duration 3036
Develop an interactive map depicting ICT usage by children and young people across Europe listing state data reports on the main aspects such as digital skills or use of the Internet and other electronic networks This will provide a clear picture of divergent and convergent features and tendencies enabling comparability between European countriesLead Partner UPSPS and COFACE Participants UdG and UBB Duration Months 19 24
Publications
Author(s):
Kapella, Olaf; Sisask, Merike
Published in:
2021
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.19070090
Author(s):
Eickelmann, Birgit; Casamassima, Gianna; Labusch, Amelie; Drossel, Kerstin; Sisask, Merike; Teidla-Kunitsõn, Gertha; Karatzogianni, Athina; Parsanoglou, Dimitris; Symeonaki, Maria; Gudmundsdottir, Greta; Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjørk; Mifsud, Louise; Barbovschi, Monica
Published in:
2022
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.7152390
Author(s):
Athina Karatzogianni, Katrin Tiidenberg, Dimitris Parsanoglou
Published in:
2021
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.14535156
Author(s):
Ayllón, Sara; Barbovschi, Monica; Casamassima, Gianna; Drossel, Kerstin; Eickelmann, Birgit; Ghețău, Cosmin; et al.
Published in:
2020
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.12906737.v1
Author(s):
Lorenz, Theresa; Kapella, Olaf
Published in:
2020
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.12587975.v1
Author(s):
Eickelmann, Birgit; Barbovschi, Monica; Casamassima, Gianna; Drossel, Kerstin; Gudmundsdottir, Greta Bjork; Holmarsdottir, Halla Bjork; Kazani, Aggeliki; Mifsud, Louise; Parsanoglou, Dimitris; Port, Sonja; Sisask, Merike; Symeonaki, Maria; Teidla-Kunitsõn, Gertha
Published in:
2021
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.16669345
Author(s):
Karatzogianni, Athina; Tiidenberg, Katrin; Parsanoglou, Dimitris
Published in:
2022
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.6382186
Author(s):
Kapella, Olaf; Schmidt, Eva Maria; Vogl, Susanne
Published in:
2022
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.5281/zenodo.6411125
Author(s):
Ayllón, Sara; Holmarsdottir, Halla; Lado Franco, Samuel
Published in:
2021
Publisher:
DigiGen
DOI:
10.6084/m9.figshare.14339054
Author(s):
Seland, I; Holmarsfottir, H. B.; Hyggen, C.; Kapella, O.; Parsanoglou, D. & Sisask, M.
Published in:
Societies, Issue 2022, 12(5), 125, 2022, ISSN 2075-4698
Publisher:
MDPI
DOI:
10.3390/soc12050125
Author(s):
Symeonaki, M., Filandrianos, G. & Stamou, G.
Published in:
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Humanit Soc Sci Commun), 2022, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher:
Springer Nature Limited
DOI:
10.1057/s41599-022-01356-5
Author(s):
Idunn Seland, Christer Hyggen
Published in:
Generational Tensions and Solidarity Within Advanced Welfare States, 2021
Publisher:
Routledge, Taylor&Francis Group
DOI:
10.4324/9781003129592-8
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