The eTwinning scheme contributes to the EU's objectives of improving digital competence and collaborative peer learning.

Interactive online learning is the best and most cost effective tool to advance intercultural dialogue and therefore should be included in the amendment.

pay due attention to advantages offered by new technologies to ensure a high degree of public safety and to fully exploit the potential offered by the internet to disseminate information, to strengthen the role of the newly created "Justice Forum", to encourage the development of new learning methods (e-learning), and to gather and share data, updating and reinforcing existing databases such as the customs' databases, which are essentials in fighting smuggling and human trafficking, while at the same time ensuring respect for fundamental rights and notably a high level of protection of the privacy of individuals with regard to the proces ...[+++]sing of personal data in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters;

pay due attention to advantages offered by new technologies to ensure a high degree of public safety and to fully exploit the potential offered by the internet to disseminate information, to strengthen the role of the newly created "Justice Forum", to encourage the development of new learning methods (e-learning), and to gather and share data, updating and reinforcing existing databases such as the customs' databases, which are essentials in fighting smuggling and human trafficking, while at the same time ensuring respect for fundamental rights and notably a high level of protection of the privacy of individuals with regard to the proces ...[+++]sing of personal data in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters;

(m) pay due attention to advantages offered by new technologies to ensure a high degree of public safety and to fully exploit the potential offered by the internet to disseminate information, to strengthen the role of the newly created "Justice Forum", to encourage the development of new learning methods (e-learning), and to gather and share data, updating and reinforcing existing databases such as the customs' databases, which are essentials in fighting smuggling and human trafficking, while at the same time ensuring respect for fundamental rights and notably a high level of protection of the privacy of individuals with regard to the pr ...[+++]ocessing of personal data in the framework of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters.

These projects should develop new models for cooperation between European Higher Education institutions, in particular addressing the provision of continuous training and professional development, and in the development of learning support services as well as for training teachers, trainers and other educational personnel in the pedagogical use of e-learning; examining quality assurance methods; the development of a better understanding of organisational change and possible risks associated with implementing e-learning in Higher Education; and the development of European models for public-private partnerships in the field of e Learnin ...[+++]g in Higher Education, as well as developing the opportunities opened by new partnerships and funding models.