EU-Wide Advantages and Opportunities for HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-07

1. Single Market Access – Reaching 450+ Million Citizens

• Europe’s single market offers a diverse “living laboratory” to test digital-learning interventions across 27 Member States, providing statistically robust and culturally varied evidence that national funding cannot replicate.

• Uniform CE-marking, GDPR and (forthcoming) AI Act frameworks mean that validated ed-tech solutions emerging from the project can be commercialised or up-scaled EU-wide without costly country-by-country re-certification.

• Exploitation plans can target Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPIS) and large-scale school ICT tenders co-funded by Recovery & Resilience Facility (RRF) funds, multiplying post-project uptake.

2. Cross-Border Collaboration & Knowledge Exchange

• Horizon Europe mandates minimum three beneficiaries from three Member/Associated States, guaranteeing a multi-national consortium that can analyse digital-learning impacts across different curricula, linguistic contexts and socio-economic realities.

• Partnership with pan-EU networks (eTwinning, European Schoolnet, Erasmus+ Teacher Academies) facilitates rapid piloting in thousands of schools and feeds policy recommendations straight into Ministries of Education.

• SSH integration encourages collaboration with EU-level civil-society bodies (European Parents Association, European Youth Forum, EDF, Eurochild), ensuring meaningful child participation and inclusivity.

3. Alignment with Flagship EU Policies

1. European Education Area (EEA) 2030 targets – project evidence supports the digital transition goal of 15% reduction in low achievers in basic skills and the annual training target (60% adults).

2. Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 – delivers data on effectiveness of AI-powered learning tools and wellbeing safeguards, informing DEAP ‘Action 3: European Digital Education Hub’.

3. EU Child Guarantee – develops interventions that prevent digital exclusion of vulnerable children, directly supporting Member States’ national action plans.

4. Green Deal / New European Bauhaus – research on sustainable, healthy school buildings links learning-environment design with climate-friendly renovation wave.

5. Union of Equality Strategies & Accessibility Act – by analysing impacts on children with disabilities and designing inclusive ed-tech, the project operationalises EU accessibility legislation.

4. Regulatory Harmonisation Benefits

• A single set of privacy-by-design requirements (GDPR/AI Act) simplifies joint data lakes and permits FAIR data sharing via EOSC across borders.

• Common EU procurement directives enable joint trans-national buyer groups (e.g., European Innovative Procurement Network) to scale proven solutions.

• Harmonised ethical guidelines for child participation (e.g., Council of Europe’s “Child-friendly justice”) streamline multi-country research protocols and ethics approvals.

5. Access to Europe’s Innovation & Research Ecosystem

• European Research Infrastructures (ERICs) such as CESSDA provide curated cross-national social-science datasets; linking with them enhances methodological rigour and visibility.

• European Open Science Cloud offers subsidised compute and storage for large-scale learning analytics.

• Collaboration with EIT-KICs (EIT Digital, EIT Culture & Creativity) opens acceleration tracks for project spin-offs.

• Researchers gain mobility opportunities via Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and COST networks, fostering lasting pan-EU expertise.

6. Funding Synergies & Leveraging EU Instruments

| EU Instrument | Complementarity | How to Exploit |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Erasmus+ (Cooperation Partnerships, Teacher Academies) | Pedagogical pilot roll-outs, teacher upskilling | Replicate tested interventions in 2026-2030 calls |

| Digital Europe Programme | Large-scale deployment of trustworthy AI educational tools | Apply for DEP-AI-Testing-Facilities post-RIA |

| ESF+ & ERDF | Regional uptake, infrastructure upgrades in less-developed regions | Integrate evidence into OPs & Just Transition plans |

| Creative Europe | Edutainment content and cultural heritage links | Co-create inclusive digital content after proof-of-concept |

| Recovery & Resilience Facility | National digital school strategies | Provide policy inputs for RRF milestones |

7. EU-Scale Impact & Scalability Path

1. Benchmarking & Comparative Analytics – multi-country PISA-style datasets allow creation of EU reference indicators on digital-wellbeing correlations, feeding into Eurostat and future Council Recommendations.

2. Policy Uptake – structured dialogue with DG EAC, DG CNECT and the Education & Training Working Groups enables swift translation of findings into EU Council Conclusions.

3. Replication Playbook – consortium can publish an open-access “EU Blueprint for Wellbeing-Centric Digital Education”, standardising methodologies for any Member State.

4. Market Creation – evidence base de-risks investment for European Ed-Tech SMEs and investors, stimulating growth of an EU value chain competitive with US/Asian giants.

5. Social Cohesion – by reducing digital divides and supporting inclusive schooling, the project advances the EU priority of “leaving no child behind”, fostering long-term socio-economic resilience.

8. Strategic Value vs. National-Level Actions

• Only an EU platform can capture linguistic diversity (24 official languages) to study AI-driven language tools’ bias and efficacy.

• Pan-EU reach is essential to examine policy heterogeneity (e.g., smartphone bans vs. permissive use in classrooms) and derive transferable best practices.

• EU backing legitimises sensitive research on child data and AI ethics, providing a trusted governance umbrella that single states may lack.

• Economies of scale in data infrastructure and joint licensing lower overall cost per participant, yielding higher value for money than fragmented national projects.

Bottom Line: Participating in HORIZON-CL2-2025-01-TRANSFO-07 positions consortia to influence European education policy, access unparalleled research infrastructure, and unlock multi-billion-euro deployment channels—advantages achievable only through an integrated EU approach.