Acer, the second player worldwide in the PC market, has given green light to its education project aiming at introducing schools to a new kind of interaction between teachers and students through the use of netbooks. In partnership with European Schoolnet, an initial pilot will be carried out in six different European Countries.

ASPECT is a 30-month Best Practice Network (commenced September 2008) supported by the European Commission's eContentplus programme that involves 22 partners from 15 countries, including 9 Ministries of Education (MoE), four commercial content developers and leading technology providers.

The 2008-2009 edition of the Development Youth Prize will focus on ‘Human Development in Africa’. Students from all European member states aged 16 -18 years are invited to prepare their creative artworks on three new themes: gender equality, children and youth and cultural diversity.

The European e-Skills Career Portal is a one-stop-shop to support young people and young professionals in upgrading their IT skills, in response to the growing demand for IT skills in today’s knowledge economy.

ENTITLE is a multilateral project under LifeLearning Programme Key Action 4 - Dissemination and Exploitation of Results, designed to support and extend the progress made to date by Europe’s public libraries in supporting learning for all age groups and sections of society. It focuses on the contribution to be made through informal learning settings in libraries to lifelong learning, combating digital illiteracy and social exclusion, paying special attention to gains achieved through the applications of ICT.