European UnionDeadline PassedNon-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
Impact of the learning environment and the use of digital tools in everyday life on key skills and competence development
Horizon Europe Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations
Funding Amount
Amount not specified
Deadline
16/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Impact of the learning environment and the use of digital tools in everyday life on key skills and competence development Call?
Grant Description
Support interdisciplinary research investigating how children’s everyday use of digital technologies, including generative artificial intelligence, affects their cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing and learning in primary and secondary compulsory education. Projects will analyse the impact of physical and digital learning environments, involve the voices of children and stakeholders, use mixed methods and leverage European research infrastructures and data spaces, ensuring data are findabl...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
Projects should deliver:
• Comprehensive analyses of how digital tools in everyday life influence children’s cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing and their learning trajectories.
• Evidence-based recommendations for designing and implementing high-quality education that integrates digital technologies in ways that safeguard and promote the wellbeing of students, teachers and school leaders.
• Identification of effective pedagogical and environmental interventions to support social, emotional and academic needs in primary and secondary schools.
• Generation of FAIR data resources and methodological toolkits to inform policy and practice in digital education and school design.
• Policy-relevant insights and guidelines to help educational institutions and policymakers optimise digital and physical learning settings for healthy development and equitable learning outcomes.
• Comprehensive analyses of how digital tools in everyday life influence children’s cognitive, emotional and social wellbeing and their learning trajectories.
• Evidence-based recommendations for designing and implementing high-quality education that integrates digital technologies in ways that safeguard and promote the wellbeing of students, teachers and school leaders.
• Identification of effective pedagogical and environmental interventions to support social, emotional and academic needs in primary and secondary schools.
• Generation of FAIR data resources and methodological toolkits to inform policy and practice in digital education and school design.
• Policy-relevant insights and guidelines to help educational institutions and policymakers optimise digital and physical learning settings for healthy development and equitable learning outcomes.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Investigate how expansion and normalisation of digital devices and tools in children’s daily lives affects learning and wellbeing at developmental stages of literacy and numeracy acquisition and adolescence.
• Select target groups reflecting intersecting factors (age, gender, disabilities, digital exclusion, socio-economic status) to analyse differential impacts.
• Examine how school learning environments—physical and digital—can support social, emotional and academic needs, and identify effective interventions.
• Focus on primary and/or secondary general compulsory education; projects may address one or multiple age cohorts.
• Employ mixed-methods and inter-/transdisciplinary approaches (including SSH), combining quantitative and qualitative data, and deepen collaboration across fields.
• Include active and meaningful participation of children, young people and relevant stakeholders in data collection and analysis.
• Leverage existing data and services from European Research Infrastructures federated under EOSC and relevant Data Spaces.
• Ensure all newly produced data adhere to FAIR principles.
• Select target groups reflecting intersecting factors (age, gender, disabilities, digital exclusion, socio-economic status) to analyse differential impacts.
• Examine how school learning environments—physical and digital—can support social, emotional and academic needs, and identify effective interventions.
• Focus on primary and/or secondary general compulsory education; projects may address one or multiple age cohorts.
• Employ mixed-methods and inter-/transdisciplinary approaches (including SSH), combining quantitative and qualitative data, and deepen collaboration across fields.
• Include active and meaningful participation of children, young people and relevant stakeholders in data collection and analysis.
• Leverage existing data and services from European Research Infrastructures federated under EOSC and relevant Data Spaces.
• Ensure all newly produced data adhere to FAIR principles.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Single-stage submission via the Horizon Funding & Tenders Portal by 16 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Projects funded as lump sum RIA: Part B page limit of 50 pages plus mandatory detailed budget table template.
• Applicants must select the relevant destination (‘Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations’) from the 2025 Work Programme when preparing their proposal.
• Admissibility, eligibility, award criteria, scoring thresholds and procedures are governed by Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes A–G, including country eligibility (Annex B), financial capacity (Annex C) and evaluation rules (Annex D–F).
• Data produced must be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR).
• Use of European Research Infrastructures and EOSC is encouraged.
• Proposals must follow the Lump Sum Grant Decision (7 July 2021) and accompanying Horizon Europe Programme Guide and detailed call-specific instructions.
• Projects funded as lump sum RIA: Part B page limit of 50 pages plus mandatory detailed budget table template.
• Applicants must select the relevant destination (‘Innovative Research on Social and Economic Transformations’) from the 2025 Work Programme when preparing their proposal.
• Admissibility, eligibility, award criteria, scoring thresholds and procedures are governed by Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes A–G, including country eligibility (Annex B), financial capacity (Annex C) and evaluation rules (Annex D–F).
• Data produced must be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR).
• Use of European Research Infrastructures and EOSC is encouraged.
• Proposals must follow the Lump Sum Grant Decision (7 July 2021) and accompanying Horizon Europe Programme Guide and detailed call-specific instructions.
Important dates
Open from: 15/05/2025
Deadline:16/09/2025
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