21st Century Learning and Teaching

This booklet highlights some of the many EU initiatives and co-funded research and innovation projects which address societal challenges through digital innovation, such as better healthcare, independent living for the elderly, delivering effective public services, energy saving, smart transport, secure internet, inclusion, preservation of cultural heritage.  

A showcase of policy actions and projects illustrates what role ICT plays in addressing societal challenges and how ICT research and innovation result in very practical applications that help improving quality of life, push productivity and competitiveness and lead to new opportunities for EU citizens and businesses.

Do you have an innovative ICT-related research project? Win a possibility to showcase it in ICT 2013! 

Individual students or small groups (max 5) can submit ICT research projects to showcase at the ICT 2013 event in Vilnius.

The projects can be submited in 8 categories, which reflect the orientations of the ICT research in the next European research framework programme,Horizon 2020:

- New components and systems, low-power computing;

- Networking technologies, cloud computing;

- Smart personal environments, robotics;

- Technologies for content and information (new interfaces, big data, tools for creative content and media);

- ICT for societal challenges (health, security, sustainability, education, inclusion);

- Digital platforms and tools for collaboration ;

- Other innovative ICT research projects.