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Objectives
The Unit's mission is to improve access to and to stimulate the development of high quality European digital content for all.
The main areas of activities are:
- to encourage, through feasibility studies and pilot projects, the development of high quality European digital content, geared towards the linguistic and cultural diversities of Europe;
- to protect children against harmful and illegal content on the Internet by setting up a network of hotlines, promoting filtering and rating tools, establishing codes of conduct, and launching awareness campaigns for children, parents and teachers;
The implementation tools are:
- The eContent Programme, which was concluded in December 2004 and its follow up programme eContent plus 2005-2008.
- The Safer Internet Action Plan concluded on 2004 and its follow up programme Safer Internet plus 2005-2008.