The DigiGen project is funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme under Grant no. 870548. It involves partners from 9 different European countries to develop significant knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives. This includes a focus on educational institutions, the home, leisure time and children and young people’s civic participation. The project aims to achieve this by explaining the conditions under which harmful versus beneficial effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use by children and young people occur in order to develop effective social, educational, health and online safety policies, practices and market regulation. This is achieved through the use of participatory methodologies that focus on understanding why and how some children and young people benefit from ICT use while others seem to be impacted negatively. It takes as its focus children and young people (from 0-18 years of age), a group growing up today that is described as the digital generation (DigiGen). Through sustained engagement with the digital generation as co-researchers, the project includes the use of innovative quantitative and qualitative methods and in-depth case studies. In the project, the cross-disciplinary team of researchers enhances cooperation between home, schools and the wider community to ensure safe and productive ways of using ICTs.

The overall objectives also aim to contribute to the achievement of a number of child-focused Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), more specifically improving health and wellbeing (SDG 3), expanding educational opportunity and quality education (SDG 4), achieving gender equity (SDG 5), decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), tackling inequality (SDG 10) and sustainable, safe and inclusive cities (SDG 11).

The DigiGen project is funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme under Grant no. 870548. It involves partners from 9 different European countries to develop significant knowledge about how children and young people use and are affected by the technological transformations in their everyday lives. This includes a focus on educational institutions, the home, leisure time and children and young people’s civic participation. The project aims to achieve this by explaining the conditions under which harmful versus beneficial effects of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use by children and young people occur in order to develop effective social, educational, health and online safety policies, practices and market regulation. This is achieved through the use of participatory methodologies that focus on understanding why and how some children and young people benefit from ICT use while others seem to be impacted negatively. It takes as its focus children and young people (from 0-18 years of age), a group growing up today that is described as the digital generation (DigiGen). Through sustained engagement with the digital generation as co-researchers, the project includes the use of innovative quantitative and qualitative methods and in-depth case studies. In the project, the cross-disciplinary team of researchers enhances cooperation between home, schools and the wider community to ensure safe and productive ways of using ICTs.

The overall objectives also aim to contribute to the achievement of a number of child-focused Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), more specifically improving health and wellbeing (SDG 3), expanding educational opportunity and quality education (SDG 4), achieving gender equity (SDG 5), decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), tackling inequality (SDG 10) and sustainable, safe and inclusive cities (SDG 11).