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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When Digital Services Leave People Behind: The Responsibility to Design for Everyone
September 2026 — A company had recently redesigned its online customer portal to make it easier and faster to use. Customers could log in, update their personal details, upload documents and submit a request without speaking to an employee. During testing, the website appeared to work as expected. But when customers who used screen readers,…
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Who Shapes Our Digital Lives? The Meta Case and the Need for Digital Responsibility
Social media connects people, enables creativity and gives individuals, communities and small organisations a public voice. Yet the same features that encourage participation can also intensify pressure, distraction and compulsive use. The recent Meta case illustrates this tension particularly clearly. In August 2026, Meta reached a proposed settlement with a coalition of US attorneys general…
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The Value of Making Mistakes in the Age of AI
Artificial Intelligence is changing the way we learn, work, and solve problems. In plain words, AI can write a text, solve an exercise, or give us an answer. This can be very useful, but it also raises an interesting question: Are we still giving ourselves enough space to make mistakes? Making mistakes is a normal and…
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— the project team
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