19. Encourages the Commission and Parliament to strengthen further their commitment to educate and train staff in communication skills, enabling them to communicate with the media and with the public in order to improve the EU institutions' provision of information and communication; regards enhanced recruitment of media professionals in order to fulfil these requirements as essential;

R. whereas the emergence of new communication tools has transformed all branches of journalism and the media industry, prompting a rethink of the methods traditionally employed in the sector, enabling anyone to create and share content on blogs; whereas social networks have become a central Web 2.0 feature and have changed habits and brought a new dimension to news provision, as an increasing number of journalists are using such networks as a source of, or means of disseminating, information; whereas social media are used to some extent in researching and producing various types of article and are used by journalists to publish, share ...[+++] and promote their articles,

In June 2006, two new topics were discussed in the Forum: children's use of new media and blocking access to child sexual abuse images[7].

From this point of view, integration of the cultural institutions into new learning environments must be encouraged, while running specific projects in education in the visual image and the new media for the general public.

Such events will concentrate on developing projects of a high educational quality backed by adequate teaching resources.

(27) Whereas the Commission will at regular intervals investigate developments in the market for new services in the field of the Information Society, especially in the framework of the convergence between telecommunications, information technology and media and, where necessary, take initiatives in order to adapt rules promptly in order to encourage the European development of new services,