The main objective of the LINKED project is to make research results on the topics of digital competence and digital games available to policy makers and practitioners in understandable, user-friendly formats.

To achieve this partners have been in contact with the various stakeholders the project aims to reach and have collected from them questions of interest regarding these two topics. The research partners of the project have consequently set about writing short literature reviews summarizing the main recent research results available to help answer the questions on digital competence and digital games selected.

On the basis of these literature reviews, European Schoolnet have acted as a broker by developing shorter answers, PowerPoint presentations and videos, as alternative formats to communicate the research results in accessible, visual, and less time-consuming ways, to suit the various needs of the project's target groups. The Linked platform (http://linked.eun.org) provides practitioners and policy makers with research evidence on digital competence and digital games in the various user-friendly formats described above, together with reference material (access to relevant policy documents, reports and teaching materials), as well as useful websites and a blog on games-based learning.

LINKED ran from February 2010 until April 2011 and is funded under the European Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme. European Schoolnet (EUN) coordinated the project in cooperation with six European partners: University of Helsinki, Finland; Norwegian Centre for ICT in Education (NCIE), Norway; National Agency for the Development of School Autonomy (ANSAS), Italy; Ministry of Education (DGIDC), Portugal; Centre for Information Technologies of Education (CITE), Lithuania; and Tiger Leap Foundation, Estonia.