– 500 teachers and 6000 students from 10 EU countries will benefit from this pilot project –

One hundred schools in the European Union will benefit from European funds for digitisation, amounting to about 20 thousand euros per school, as a result of the pilot project initiated by the Vice-Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Education and Culture, MEP Victor Negrescu.

The grants will enable schools to invest in technological and digital infrastructure, run training modules for teachers and pupils or provide access to quality digital content for learners and are available as a result of the Romanian MEP’s initiative.

“Through this pilot project we wanted to directly help schools, pupils and teachers in rural, remote or technology-deficient areas. I am pleased that a significant number of schools in the European Union, in remote communities, will benefit from these grants because of our initiative and I propose to continue to obtain such funding for education in Europe“, said the social democratic MEP, Victor Negrescu.

The pilot project has a total value of €2.4 million. Out of about 300 applications, in total, about 100 educational institutions in the European Union will use the funding proposed and obtained by Victor Negrescu.

500 teachers and 6000 pupils in 10 countries will benefit from Learning from the Extremes project.

“An effort that has paid off because I believe that every child in the European Union deserves access to quality education wherever they are, including access to modern teaching and learning tools. Technological developments can create gaps that are difficult to overcome for those from disadvantaged backgrounds, and school must be a mechanism to correct them and create equal opportunities”, Negrescu added.

The Romanian MEP is known for initiating a record number of pilot projects during his mandates in the European Parliament, totalling around €90 million, in areas such as education, health, digitalisation or entrepreneurship, and many of his initiatives have subsequently been turned into permanent funding lines.