A strong increase in ICT use took place over the past 5 years and schools have moved over to broadband. The first measurement available for the New Member States also shows encouraging signs.

The study is a continuation of the earlier benchmarking exercise for eEurope 2002. It involved two surveys: a head teacher survey of more than 10,000 head teachers to obtain information on the schools and a survey of more than 20,000 classroom teachers to focus on their use of ICT for educational purposes. Both were carried out in spring 2006 in all 25 EU Member States, Norway, and Iceland. Concise Country Briefs for each of the 27 countries include information on the ICT equipment and internet in schools, their use in class, comparisons of the situation in 2001 and 2006, attitudes on ICT use by teachers, results on access, competence and motivation for using ICT in school and the ICT readiness of teachers.