This paper aims to provide an overview of the situation of ICT in schools in the years 2006 and 2007. It concentrates on the following areas:

• State and progress of ICT infrastructure and use;
• Results of the impact of ICT in schools;
• Examples of national policies and innovations;
• Issues for schools.

EUN regularly carries out extensive monitoring and research activities in various fields related to ICT integration in schools, such as describing and analysing ICT policies within the Insight observatory, gathering of innovative practices of schools involved in EU funded projects, leading the Internet safety network and EUN content related projects, which promote the learning resource exchange (LRE) for schools.

This first version of the paper aims to highlight key results from some of this research to give an overview on the developments in this field, on trends and examples of innovations and point to emerging issues. More specifically it brings together key findings from:

• Studies and surveys carried out by EUN in the last two years;
• PIC surveys and thematic dossiers;
• Analysis of country reports; 
• Other relevant studies in the field.

It is planned to provide a more comprehensive trend an issue paper covering more extensively other areas (e.g. content, science education, teacher development) drawing also extensively from the updated Insight country reports in the second half of 2007 around September/October 2007. The aim is to provide a trend and issue paper as a key Insight service to EUN consortium members on a regular basis.

The report can be downloaded here as a [pdf].

French version/version française [pdf].