Media Coverage

April 28, 2023

Nur halb so viele Mädchen in Entwicklungsländern haben Internetzugang wie ihre männlichen Altersgenossen. Wie ein am Donnerstag veröffentlichter Bericht des UN-Kinderhilfswerks Unicef zeigt, nutzen gerade einmal zehn Prozent der Mädchen und jungen Frauen in Staaten mit niedrigen Einkommen das Internet. Bei den Burschen sind es 22 Prozent.

April 27, 2023

Only half as many girls in developing countries have Internet access as their male peers. This is shown by a recent report by the UN children’s fund Unicef. Just ten percent of girls and young women in low-income countries use the Internet.

April 19, 2023

The concept of digital maturity goes beyond measures of digital skills or literacy. It is in fact a dynamic concept that changes over time and describes the overall ability of children to assess and regulate their behaviour on when, how, and in which contexts the use of digital technologies is either beneficial or harmful to them. That is why even though the project focuses on children 9–18 years old, we expect that we will also be able to apply modified versions of our “Digital Maturity Inventory” (DIMI)  to adults.

April 19, 2023

We spend our days surrounded by digital technology. We use it to work, learn, socialise, entertain ourselves, shop … almost every aspect of life nowadays involves the use of information and communication technologies. But how can relatively inexperienced children fully benefit from the advantages of the digital world while avoiding harm?

To answer this question, two EU-funded projects, ySKILLS and DYGIMATEX are trying to understand whether children today are ready to deal with the challenges posed by the digital world by evaluating their digital skills and digital maturity levels.

October 31, 2022

Los padres y profesores interesados en las consecuencias del uso y abuso de los dispositivos digitales pueden echar un vistazo a una investigación en curso, liderada por la Universidad de Viena, financiada con fondos europeos, que está analizando la madurez digital de niños y adolescentes de entre 9 y 18 años. El programa Digymatex busca establecer una clasificación de los distintos factores que permitirían hablar de madurez digital.

May 22, 2022

How do children grow up in digitalised media environments, how do they deal with digital challenges, what skills do they need, what is “Digital Maturity”, and how can it be defined and measured?

April 4, 2022

In 2019, the European Commission provided funding for four new international projects that would investigate the impact of technological transformations for children and youth. Delegates from these projects will meet in Oslo in May 2022 to share insights and discuss new research opportunities and challenges.

March 16, 2021

Wann sind Handys sinnvolle Werkzeuge für Kinder und wann sind sie schädlich? Und wie lässt sich digitale Reife messen? Um Fragen wie diese geht es im EU-Projekt DIGYMATEX, bei dem Forscher*innen aus zehn Ländern, unter ihnen Sozialpsychologe Arnd Florack von der Uni Wien, die Nutzung digitaler Technologien bei Neun- bis 16-Jährigen unter die Lupe nehmen

November 19, 2020

People who spend more time on their phones are more likely to reject larger, delayed rewards in favor of smaller, immediate rewards, according to a new study, by DIGYMATEX partner Peter Mohr of Freie Universität Berlin with Tim Schulz van Endert.

October 7, 2020

Dr. Pablo Gracia from Trinity College Dublin was interviewed on Tipp FM to discuss his study with sociologist Melissa Bohnert. The research, carried out by the EU-funded DIGYMATEX Project, focuses on how screen time impacts child mental health and wellbeing in Ireland.

September 22, 2020

Children who spend significant amounts of time on screens are more likely to suffer declines in emotional wellbeing, and the level of harm has increased in more recent times, according to a new Irish study.

The study, by sociologists Melissa Bohnert and Dr Pablo Gracia at Trinity College Dublin and published in the Child Indicators Research journal, is the first to look at two cohorts of children to form a comparative analysis on effects.

May 29, 2020

The time children and young people spend online has increased significantly, giving them access to unprecedented opportunities but also exposing them to new risks. To address this new reality, the European Commission (EC) is funding four Horizon 2020 projects: CO:RE, DigiGen, DIGYMATEX, and ySKILLS, all of which have synergies with Better Internet for Kids (BIK) actions.

March 23, 2020

Die Europäische Union hat das internationale DIGYMATEX-Konsortium mit 3,45 Millionen Euro ausgestattet, um evidenzbasierte Werkzeuge bereitzustellen, die das Verständnis und die Bestimmung der digitalen Reife von Kindern unterstützen. Von der Universität Wien sind Forscher*innen des Instituts für Arbeits-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpsychologie beteiligt.

March 18, 2020

I det nystartede prosjektet DIGYMATEX vil Nofima bidra med innovasjonskunnskap og kompetanse på barn- og matforskning. Vi har blant annet ansvar for å undersøke gjensidig påvirkning mellom barnas digitale modenhet og barnas matvaner. 

March 16, 2020

Researchers in the Digymatex consortium are collaborating to ‘disentangle’ how children interact with smartphones.

February 24, 2020

The interdisciplinary project will introduce new evidence-based tools that will determine the long-term effects of using mobile devices on child behaviour and will offer concrete solutions for safer and more beneficial use of digital technologies.

January 23, 2020

IE Business School is part of the scientific consortium that has received a grant from the EU for a research project intended to design tools for understanding and measuring the youth digital maturity.

November 19, 2019

The European Union has allocated funding under the auspices of the Horizon 2020 programme to three major consortia in which the UvA is a partner.

The UvA is a partner in the project Establishing a Comprehensive Understanding and Taxonomy of Children’s Digital Maturity (DIGYMATEX), which is being coordinated by Aarhus University (Denmark). The UvA part is being led by developmental psychologist Dr Wouter van den Bos. The subsidy for the total project is 3.5 million euros. Eleven partner institutions are participating in the project, including IBM.