The Europe 2020 strategy acknowledges that a fundamental transformation of education and training is needed to address the new skills and competences that will be required, if Europe is to remain competitive, overcome the current economic crisis and grasp new opportunities. Innovating in education and training is a key priority in several flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 strategy, i.e. the Agenda for New Skills and Jobs, Youth on the Move, the Digital Agenda, and the Innovation Union Agenda, and also in the latest EC Communication on 'Opening up education'. Accordingly, one of the five targets for measuring the success of the Europe 2020 strategy is the modernisation of European Education and Training systems with the goals of reducing early school leaving and increasing tertiary education attainment.
Policy-makers and educational stakeholders recognise the contribution of ICT to achieving these targets, and more broadly, the role of ICT as a key enabler of innovation and creativity in Education and Training (E&T) and for learning in general. It is however also highlighted that the full potential of ICT is not being realised in formal education settings and major questions are being asked about the sustainability, impact, costs and mainstreaming of ICT-enabled learning innovations (ICT-ELI) in Europe.

This report is part of the project "Up-scaling Creative Classrooms in Europe" (SCALE CCR) launched by the Information Society Unit at JRC-IPTS1 in December 2011 and completed in June 2013 on behalf of the Directorate-General Education and Culture (DG EAC). The project aimed to provide a better understanding of ICT-ELI that has significant scale and/or systemic impact and to propose recommendations for their sustainable development and mainstreaming across Europe.
This report presents a set of policy recommendations developed through a mixed-research approach involving around 300 educational stakeholders. These recommendations could guide different trajectories of scaling up and progressively mainstreaming ICT-ELI in different contexts and stimulate further research in the field, contributing to the momentum for modernizing Education and Training systems in Europe and beyond.
More information on the SCALE CCR project and links to the related publications can be found on the project webpage: http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/SCALECCR.html