Translation of "Nouveaux médias numériques " (French → English) :

ACTIONS The Commission will: Key Action 10: Propose digital literacy and competences as a priority for the European Social Fund regulation (2014-2020); Key Action 11: By 2012, develop tools to identify and recognise the competences of ICT practitioners and users, linked to the European Qualifications Framework[49] and to EUROPASS[50] and develop a European Framework for ICT Professionalism to increase the competences and the mobility of ICT practitioners across Europe; Other actions: Make digital literacy and skills a priority of the "New skills for new jobs" Flagship to be launched in 2010[51], including the launch of a multi-stakeholder sectoral council for ICT skills and employment to address demand and supply aspects; Promote a highe ...[+++]r participation of young women and women returners in the ICT workforce through support for web-based training resources, game based eLearning and social networking; Develop in 2011 an online consumer education tool on new media technologies (e.g. consumer rights on the internet, eCommerce, data protection, media literacy, social networks etc.).

Promote the protection of children and young people, in particular regarding the competences concerning new media and their protection against certain dangers arising from the use of new media, while also recognising the benefits and opportunities new media can offer young people, e.g. through the follow-up of the Council conclusions of 21 May 2008 and 27 November 2009 on media literacy in the digital environment,

The diffusion of digital creative content and the multiplication of online and mobile distribution platforms create new challenges for media literacy.

As a consequence, it is crucial to build up better knowledge and understanding of how the media work in the digital world, who the new players in the media economy are and which new possibilities, and challenges, digital media consumption may present.

new media paradigms and new forms of content, including entertainment; creation of and access to interactive digital content; enriched user experiences; cost-effective content delivery; digital rights management; hybrid media,

- Knowledge technologies and digital content: The objective is to provide automated solutions for creating and organising virtual knowledge spaces (e.g. collective memories, digital libraries) so as to stimulate radically new content and media services and applications.