After 15 years since the decision that led Sweden to replace printed books with tablets and laptops, the country wants to return to paper texts. The reason? The failure of a gamble on digital education that negatively impacted reading comprehension, attention, and performance.

Sweden went from textbooks to screens; it was a multi-million dollar investment that did not yield the expected results. In this regard, and “following the impact on actual assessments and pressure from families,” Sweden will have to reinvest millions, “but this time to bring back the paper textbooks it once considered obsolete.”

It is estimated that the amount will exceed one hundred million euros to revitalize a student system that has not been a complete failure; simply put, “the excess of electronic devices in classrooms has not been entirely balanced.”

After the initial phase, teachers and families began to notice “difficulties in reading comprehension, information retention, loss of attention, and poor writing skills.”

Experts point out that backlit screens have been detrimental to concentration and understanding. Now, the idea is to alternate digital and physical materials to achieve better results. “Of course, e-books are not bad, but, as always, too much of anything is bad. Constant use of devices is something that must be managed at a general level,” according to the experts.

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The wait for Sweden’s accession to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ended this Monday with its official admission.

In a ceremony held this Monday, March 11 at NATO headquarters, the Swedish flag was raised as an indication of its integration into the organization. With this, Sweden becomes the 32nd member state.

The secretary general of the military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, was present at the ceremony, who carried out the flag raising together with the Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson. Stoltenberg indicated that “Sweden’s accession to NATO makes the transatlantic military alliance bigger and stronger.”

He referred to Ukraine, a country that also requested membership in NATO, adding that it is closer to achieving this goal. Regarding Russia, he noted that Vladimir Putin failed in his attempts to weaken the organization.

Sweden, now an official member of NATO, has been a long-standing partner, “under the protective shield of Article 5” of the mutual defense treaty, Stoltenberg said, adding that this article is “the maximum guarantee of freedom and security. All for one and one for all.”

The Swedish Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, emphasized that NATO countries, now with Sweden, will share the “burdens, responsibilities and risks” in the face of war threats.

🇸🇪 | AHORA: La bandera de Suecia, el miembro número 32 de la OTAN, ondea en la sede de Bruselas. pic.twitter.com/Tq4BUo63IS

— UHN PLUS (@UHN_Plus) March 11, 2024

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The Austrian fintech Bitpanda has just partnered with the PayPal platform and now allows commission-free withdrawals and deposits in Spain. Operations have been active since February, Thursday 22.

According to Bitpanda’s announcement, the strategy will be extended to other countries, such as Italy, France or Switzerland, to facilitate transactions for fintech clients.

The objective is to expand its offer of payment methods, “which include Apple Pay, SEPA bank transfers, as well as credit and debit cards.”

Mireya Fernández, who was recently named Country Lead of Southern Europe and CEE, has indicated: “including PayPal to the Bitpanda ecosystem as another free deposit option for our users in Spain is another example of our attention and commitment to the experience of the user. Something fundamental to strengthen our leadership in the market. “We are proud to offer our Spanish customers this additional extra of comfort and safety.”

The new payment option for Spaniards, through the association of Bitpanda and PayPal, means speed, simplicity and confidence in each deposit and withdrawal, without commissions.

With this announcement, the platform also announced the increase in the daily credit card limit, which went from 10,000 to 20,000 euros.

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The European Commission announced the winners of the iCapital award, which is awarded to the European Capital of Innovation. This year, Lisbon (Portugal) was the winner as the European Capital of Innovation and Linköping (Sweden) was the winner as the most innovative city.

This award, which reaches its ninth edition in 2023, is organized with the support of the European Innovation Council, within the framework of Horizon Europe. It consists of giving recognition to cities that have achieved integrative innovation ecosystems of the academic sectors, companies and the public sector in search of social well-being.

According to the Swissinfo portal, the iCapital award “is one of the five European Innovation Council awards that are awarded within Horizon Europe, the research and innovation framework program of the European Union. The award is open to cities in all EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries, and is managed by the European Innovation Council and the Executive Agency for SMEs.”

The European Capital of Innovation Awards (iCapital) highlighted Lisbon in the European Capital of Innovation category, with Warsaw (Poland) as first runner-up and Lviv (Ukraine) as second runner-up.

In the Most Innovative European City category, Linköping (Sweden) won; Padua (Italy) was first runner-up and second runner-up was Cork (Ireland).

The Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Iliana Ivanova, presented the awards in Marseille during a ceremony organized jointly with Aix-Marseille Provence Métropole, winner of iCapital 2022.

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Cooperation on emerging technologies, sustainable trade and economic security was the key point discussed by the United States and the EU at the meeting held this Wednesday in Sweden.

During the fourth edition of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC), both regions issued a joint statement to highlight “the progress made in the field of semiconductors, implementing agreements on early warning in the supply chain and transparency in subsidies and putting into practice a mechanism to prevent competition for subsidies.”

Other topics related to the three main ones, also discussed during the meeting, include 6G wireless communications, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in industry and other areas, the manipulation of information and its effect on the youngest, commercial relations.

On transatlantic trade relations, both parties “agreed on a work program for the Transatlantic Initiative on Sustainable Trade, which will allow closer cooperation to advance the green transition, and adjust regulations related to export restrictions on items sensitive to Russia and Belarus.

Considering that in 2022 trade between the US and the EU reached a record figure of 1.55 trillion euros, during the meeting the parties reaffirmed their commitment to strengthen “commercial relations by facilitating them in key sectors”.

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Researchers in Sweden have developed the world’s first transistor made of wood, featured in the PNAS magazine, which paves the way for the regulation of electronic plants.

Transistors, invented almost a hundred years ago, are considered by some to be as important an invention for humanity as the telephone, the light bulb, or the bicycle. Today, they are a crucial component in modern electronic devices and are manufactured at the nanoscale. A transistor regulates the current through it and can also function as a power switch.

“We have devised an unprecedented principle. Yes, the wooden transistor is slow and bulky, but it works and has great potential for development,” says Isak Engquist, a senior associate professor in the Organic Electronics Laboratory at the University of Linkoping.

In previous trials, transistors made of wood have only been able to regulate ion transport. And when the ions run out, the transistor stops working. The transistor developed by the Linköping researchers, however, can operate continuously and regulate the flow of electricity without deteriorating.

The researchers used balsa wood to create their transistor, as the technology involved requires a grain-free wood that is evenly structured throughout. They stripped away the lignin, leaving only long cellulose fibers with channels where the lignin had been.

These channels were then filled with a conductive plastic or polymer, called PEDOT:PSS, resulting in an electrically conductive wood material.

The researchers used this to build the wooden transistor and were able to show that it is capable of regulating electrical current and providing continuous function at a selected output level. It could also turn the power on and off, albeit with some delay: turning it off took about a second; and turning it on, about five seconds.

Possible applications could include electronic plant regulation, which is another strong research area at Linköping University. One advantage of the transistor’s channel being so large is that it could potentially tolerate higher current than normal organic transistors, which could be important for certain future applications.

But Isak Engquist wants to emphasize something: “We did not create the wooden transistor with any specific application in mind. We did it because we could. This is basic research that shows it is possible, and we hope it will inspire further research that may lead to applications in the future.”

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