The Directorate-General for Education (DGE) publicly announced the document ‘Recommendations for Digital Well-being’ on 29 January in Coimbra, at the Convento de São Francisco, at the ‘Learning More Now’ Seminar. This document is the result of an invitation to various experts on the subject in Portugal who were part of a working group led by the DGE during 2024. Maria José Brites and Teresa Sofia Castro, coordinators of the YouNDigital - Young News and Digital Citizenship project (DOI 10.54499/PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021), are part of this working group and also sign this document.
The ‘Learn More Now’ Seminar provided an opportunity to reflect on and discuss strategies centred on ‘Improving Learning’ and ‘Integration and Success of Migrant Students’ with heads of school groups and non-grouped schools, heads of school association training centres, education experts and representatives of the various bodies of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation.
Among the topics discussed at the event were: the integration and success of migrant students, psycho-pedagogical tutoring and digital well-being in education.