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QoC-Talk 97: Media literacy, DigComp 3.0 and HERMMES

Synergies and Impact on Young People

Hosted by EP Vice-President Victor Negrescu

Dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion shapes young peo­ple’s devel­op­ment, edu­ca­tion, and well-being, impact­ing not only how they access infor­ma­tion, but also how they think, inter­act, and form their iden­ti­ty. Recog­nis­ing the urgency of these issues, the Euro­pean Par­lia­men­t’s Com­mit­tee on Cul­ture and Edu­ca­tion (CULT) is prepar­ing an Own-Ini­­ti­a­­tive Report titled “Impact of Social Media and the Online Envi­ron­ment on Young Peo­ple” (2025/2081(INI)).

At the same time, the Euro­pean Commission’s Joint Research Cen­tre is tasked to devel­op learn­ing out­comes as part of the Dig­Comp 3.0 revi­sion. And while Dig­Comp recog­nis­es the impor­tance of well-being and pro­vides essen­tial guid­ance for the devel­op­ment of dig­i­tal com­pe­tences, it does not define when or how these com­pe­tences could be introduced.

The HERMMES approach, co-fund­ed by the EU, com­ple­ments this by offer­ing guide­lines and a cur­ricu­lum that is designed for chil­dren and young peo­ple, tak­ing their devel­op­men­tal stage into account. The main aim is that they reach media matu­ri­ty, the capac­i­ty to engage respon­si­bly, reflec­tive­ly, and crit­i­cal­ly with media across dif­fer­ent stages of child­hood and ado­les­cence. In our view, dig­i­tal com­pe­tence and media lit­er­a­cy do not only con­sist of tech­ni­cal skills, but need to be under­stood as a broad­er ped­a­gog­i­cal task, see­ing how the pres­ence of dig­i­tal tools, AI, vir­tu­al real­i­ty, social media, and the whole online envi­ron­ment touch­es upon all areas of school and home life.

The aim of the event is to explore the syn­er­gies between Dig­Comp 3.0 and the HERMMES approach, fram­ing the con­text around the Par­lia­ment report on the impact of social media and online envi­ron­ment on young peo­ple. What is the role of edu­ca­tion in this and what are the prac­ti­cal steps to imple­ment it?

Expected outcomes

🔹 Stake­hold­er engage­ment: strength­en­ing col­lab­o­ra­tion among pol­i­cy­mak­ers, edu­ca­tors, and civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions to help build media lit­er­a­cy and dig­i­tal com­pe­tence among chil­dren and young people.

🔹 Appli­ca­tion of Dig­Comp for chil­dren and young peo­ple: par­tic­i­pants will gain insights into how Dig­Comp 3.0 and HERMMES can be applied in edu­ca­tion­al settings.

🔹 Pol­i­cy rec­om­men­da­tions: gen­er­at­ing action­able rec­om­men­da­tions to inform the CULT Com­mit­tee’s report and broad­er EU dig­i­tal edu­ca­tion poli­cies (as part of the Dig­i­tal Edu­ca­tion Action Plan 2021–2027 and beyond).

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