The Directorate-General for Information Society and Media launched a public tender  to assess the impact of ICT use in schools for the purpose of teaching/learning.

The tender, published in the Official Journal “S”, is framed within the 2010 Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme - CIP work program. It  will run over nine months.

The objective of the study are to collect information on and assess the impact of ICT use in schools for the purpose of teaching/learning.

To this end, (an) appropriate survey(s) will be designed and carried out in the 27 EU Member States + Croatia, Iceland, Norway and Turkey and the results assessed and discussed in a study report, also containing an extensive set of data charts and tables. In addition, information on the situation in each country will be prepared in the form of a set of individual country profiles.

Interested institutions who may participate in this tender should submit their bid before September 10, 2010 to the following address:

European Commission
Directorate-General for Information Society and Media
Directorate C — Lisbon Strategy and Policies for the Information Society
Unit C4 — Economic and Statistical Analysis
Office BU 25, 1/168
Avenue du Bourget 1–3
1049 Brussels (Belgium)
heidi.cigan@ec.europa.eu