In a world that is increasingly more connected, digital citizens actively or passively accept to transmit information, part of which is 'personal data'. This information is often collected and elaborated by third parties to infer further knowledge about users. The act of gathering the data is...

This study is part of a larger effort to better understand online behaviour. We tested the effect on people's security behaviour of different ways of warning them about cybersecurity threats with an online experiment (n=5,065) in Germany, Sweden, Poland, the UK and Spain. Participants had to...

This study is part of a larger effort to better understand online behaviour. We tested the effect on people's security behaviour of different ways of warning them about cybersecurity threats with an online experiment (n=5,065) in Germany, Sweden, Poland, the UK and Spain. Participants had to...

This report describes experts' views on what it means to be digitally competent today. Although experts' views vary, the method applied in this study enables us to derive an aggregated view on digital competence. The report identifies twelve areas of digital competence, of which some relate to...

This report attempts to summarise findings and conclusions of over 30 studies published within the EURIPIDIS project (European Innovation Policies for the Digital Shift). The objective of EURIPIDIS was to better understand how digital innovation and entrepreneurship work; to assess the EU's...

The recent availability of time series of Sentinel-2 imagery represents a significant technological step in the use of Earth Observation (EO) data for forest cover monitoring. The 5 days revisiting time (S-2 A and S-2B satellites) and the 10m spatial resolution imply the need for much larger...

The speed, scale and scope of the digital transformation and the widespread use of digital technologies in most aspects of our daily lives are changing the way we work, innovate, produce, interact and live. Knowledge flows almost instantaneously and digitalised information can be infinitely...

This report attempts to summarise findings and conclusions of over 30 studies published within the EURIPIDIS project (European Innovation Policies for the Digital Shift). The objective of EURIPIDIS was to better understand how digital innovation and entrepreneurship work; to assess the EU's...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are major drivers of social and economic change. They are also one of the key thematic objectives (TOs) in the European Structural and Investment Fund (ESIF). The aim of these funds is to strengthen economic, social and territorial cohesion...

The European Digital Competence Framework for Consumers, or "DigCompConsumers", offers a reference framework to support and improve consumers' digital competence. Consumer digital competence is defined as the competence consumers need to function actively, safely and assertively in the digital...