The Synthesis Report contains an overview of the findings of the project: Mapping European Wireless Trends and Drivers. It aims to present maps of emerging wireless technologies in Europe and the current trends in development. It also analyses the drivers that could support these emerging...

Smart-phones are today used to perform a huge amount of online activities. They are used as interfaces to access the cloud, as storage resource, as social network tools, agenda, digital wallet, digital identity repository etc. In other words smart-phone are today the citizen's digital companion,...

On 28th and 29th of November 2011 the Citizen Digital Footprint Action (CIDIPRINT) organised a workshop on "Digital Footprint in a Mobile Environment". The workshop was aiming to turn the current debate on 'privacy vs. security' into a collaborative approach to define privacy with embedded...

On 28th and 29th of November 2011 the Citizen Digital Footprint Action (CIDIPRINT) organised a workshop on "Digital Footprint in a Mobile Environment". The workshop was aiming to turn the current debate on 'privacy vs. security' into a collaborative approach to define privacy with embedded...

This study identifies the academic effects of online learning mandates on high-school students separately from the overall effect of the pandemic. We exploit exogenous variation in 2020/2021 Italian schooling mandates that imposed online learning on upper secondary school students while...

The European Union is facing a scarcity of skilled professionals in the field of nuclear energy, especially at the higher educational levels. This is mainly due to the worldwide reduction in public acceptance of everything nuclear in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl...

This document provides an overview of the discussion that took place 31 March - 1 April at IPTS, Seville, Spain, in the validation workshop of the interim results of the project on Innovations in new ICT facilitated learning communities. This report presents the main messages from the workshop...

In 2008, as part of its policy support for DG Education and Culture, IPTS launched a study to explore the innovative social and pedagogical approaches to learning that are emerging in new ICT-enabled collaborative settings. This is the final report on the project. Lifelong learning plays a...

The main aim of this study is to collect evidence on the learning innovation emerging in online communities and to draw conclusions on the lessons learnt and on emerging models and features that could eventually be transferred to education and training systems to support lifelong learning,...

The European electricity sector is undergoing radical changes in every segment of the power industry, from generation to supply. Ambitious policy goals set at European level to enhance the competitiveness, security and sustainability of the EU's energy system have called for major changes in the...