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Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027

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COM(2020) 624 final, 30 September 2020. Complete 21-page English communication, including its cover. Not the separate explanatory brochure or accompanying staff working document.
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Official title: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions: Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 - Resetting education and training for the digital age
Official reference: COM(2020) 624 final
Document type: Communication
Document date: 2020-09-30
Document date kind: Document issue
Document-date evidence: Publications Office of the European Union · PDF cover: Brussels, 30.9.2020, COM(2020) 624 final. — Document issue/adoption date; distinct from publication.
Publication date: 2020-09-30
Publication-date evidence: European Parliament · Legislative Train, COM number COM(2020) 624 and paragraph stating the new Action Plan was published on 30 September 2020. — Explicit publication evidence for the cited manifestation.
Version label: Final Commission communication
Legal status: Non binding
Language: en

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Temporal collection

Contemporary EU AI policy

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Direct AI relevance

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Classification evidence

Relevance class: Direct AI relevance · Publications Office of the European Union · Action 6, printed p.12 (PDF p.13); action 8, printed p.17 (PDF p.18). — Contains substantive AI-specific actions: ethical guidance for AI and data in education (action 6), AI/data skills and AI learning resources (action 8). Admission is based on these actions, not on generic digital relevance.
Sector tags: Education · Publications Office of the European Union · Actions 6 and 8, printed pp.12 and 17; AI ethics in teaching and AI/data skills. — Substantive coverage supports this navigation classification; not a claim that every application mentioned is regulated by this document.
Sector tags: Research and innovation · Publications Office of the European Union · Action 6, printed p.12; Horizon Europe support for AI-related educational research. — Substantive coverage supports this navigation classification; not a claim that every application mentioned is regulated by this document.
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Research assessment

Inclusion rationale: Contains substantive AI-specific actions: ethical guidance for AI and data in education (action 6), AI/data skills and AI learning resources (action 8). Admission is based on these actions, not on generic digital relevance.
Researcher notes: The 21-page formal COM text is the canonical manifestation, not the differently paginated brochure. The register date and dateOfTransmission are not used as publication evidence; the Parliament Legislative Train explicitly reports publication. Broader digital actions do not imply that all digital legislation belongs in this corpus.
Review status: verified

Relationships

Skills empower workers in the AI revolution · Related to · Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027

Official relationship · Verified

Official rationale: Locator: PDF p.5, Policy background / Raising the bar for trustworthy artificial intelligence, paragraph linking digital infrastructure and skills goals to the digital education action plan. This is an explicit policy-context reference, not evidence that the brief is a mandated deliverable under the plan.

Evidence source: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Digital Education Action Plan 2021-2027 · Related to · Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI

Official relationship · Verified

Official rationale: Locator: section 4.1, action 6, printed p.12 (PDF p.13), footnote 21. The planned educational guidance on AI and data use is stated to build on the Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI. The relationship is limited to that action; the whole action plan is not a version of the guidelines or an implementation of the later AI Act.

Evidence source: Publications Office of the European Union

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Reviewed by: Yichen Hao
Evidence review date: 2026-09-12T11:57:14.718211Z

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