On 23 January, SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation secretariat and members had an insightful meeting with Paul Nemitz, Principal Adviser on the Digital Transition in DG Justice and Consumers at the European Commission, facilitated by Dr. Susanne Drake from the Willi-Eichler-Akademie. Mr. Nemitz started the discussion by highlighting the power element in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and that we must…
ECHO Network: The use of internet for the peace movement | Zagreb, Croatia The final Study Visit of the ECHO Network project took place in Zagreb, Croatia. From 4 to 8 December, participants took part in activities organised by the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) and explored the topics of digital spaces in the framework of anti-war movement. The…
From 25 to 29 September, ECHO Network’s third study visit took place in Rome. Hosting organisation and ECHO Network project partner, CEMEA Federazione Italiana organised this visit on the topic of online learning and digital technology. CEMEA Federazione Italiana and its partner organisations Acque Correnti and Movimento di cooperazione educativa (MCE) shared their experience in conducting online training courses. They emphasised the importance of working…
Increasingly, in Europe as in the rest of the world, Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are built and deployed for harmful purposes linked to state surveillance. As the negotiations between EU legislators on the EU AI Act are ongoing, civil society organisations including SOLIDAR & SOLIDAR Foundation are calling on policy-makers to set strict limits and scrutiny…
ECHO Network Study Visit Brussels – Active Education and Ethical Digital Tools From 12 and 15 June, the second Study Visit in the framework of the ECHO Network project took place in Brussels, organised by SOLIDAR Foundation’s partner CEMÉA Belgium. The ECHO Network project is based on exchanging experiences and best practices in achieving the vision…
ECHO Network – New Project on Democracy in the Online Space kicks off in November! SOLIDAR Foundation is proud to announce that it will join the consortium of the Erasmus+ funded project ECHO Network (Ethical Common Human Open Source network). Coordinated by our French member, CEMEA, and reuniting as partners SOLIDAR Foundation members from Croatia (Centre…
Attuning the European Digital Competence Framework (DigComp) to present realities On 22 March, the European Commission published the updated version of the European Digital Competence Framework, DigComp 2.2, which serves as an essential piece in the EU’s efforts to meet the targets it has set for itself in its Digital Education Action Plan (70% of…
SOLIDAR Foundation contributes to DigComp 2.2 SOLIDAR Foundation contributes to DigComp 2.2 In December 2020, the European Commission has launched a process to update its European Digital Competence Framework, DigComp. This upcoming version, DigComp 2.2, is foreseen to be released in December 2021, with the aim of providing example of situation involving digital competences and the…
On 25 August, SOLIDAR Foundation provided its views on the European Commission public consultation on the Digital Education Action Plan (DEAP). This consultation feeds into the upcoming update of the DEAP in September 2020, to ensure that it promotes high quality and inclusive education and training in the digital age. This becomes increasingly relevant as the COVID-19-related lockdown has illuminated deficiencies in…
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