A Responsible Digital Future for Everyone
Discover DIRECT, an Erasmus+ alliance empowering learners, educators and businesses with tools and courses to embed digital responsibility and ethical AI in everyday practice.
An Erasmus+ EU Initiative
PROJECT VIDEO
DIRECT in 90 seconds: What we build, who it helps, and why it matters
Watch a short introduction to DIRECT—how the project strengthens Digital Responsibility skills through practical learning, evidence-based self-assessment, and tools that support organisations in making responsible digital choices.
Project Partners
Organisations Driving Responsible Digital Change
Discover the universities, research hubs and businesses behind DIRECT, joining forces to embed ethics in Europe’s future.
ABOUT OUR project
DIRECT Objectives: Ethics & Impact Across Europe
DIRECT transforms ethical technology principles into practice via an EU-wide competence framework, multilingual learning platform, hands-on pilots and resources that guide educators, businesses and policymakers.
LATEST NEWS
Digital Insights & Updates
Catch up on the newest stories from the DIRECT blog—brief explainers, project milestones, ethical-tech reflections and hands-on resources that help you weave digital responsibility into everyday practice.
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Digital Wellbeing at Work: A New Dimension of Digital Responsibility
Digital technologies have transformed the way we work, learn and communicate. Emails, instant messages, online meetings, collaborative platforms and artificial intelligence tools allow us to share information faster, solve problems more efficiently and stay connected across distances. However, the same technologies that make work easier can also create new challenges when they are not used…
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Cancel Culture and Responsible Use of Technology
In the age of social media, new technologies have empowered individuals to share opinions, hold others accountable, and spark social change. However, this digital empowerment has also given rise to cancel culture, the act of collectively calling out and “canceling” individuals, celebrities, or companies for perceived wrongdoings, often through online platforms. While it may seem…
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The Right to Be Forgotten: Teaching Learners to Manage Their Digital Footprint
Every online interaction leaves a trace. Whether posting on social media, making an online purchase, or simply browsing the web, individuals continuously generate a digital footprint that can persist long after the original activity has ended. As personal data becomes increasingly valuable and widely shared, understanding the long-term implications of these digital traces is an…
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“Technology finds its true power when steered by responsibility.”
— the project team
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