About
Bednet is an online distance learning system, ensuring that children and adolescents facing long absences due to illnesses, surgeries, and pregnancies can continue attending lessons in the comfort of their own homes and in their original classrooms. Bednet provides the equipment and counseling to those schools and families who need it for free.
Known by the decree on education in Belgium as synchronous internet education (SIE) – real time distance learning, this form of education is made available to children from the age of five. Secondary school students in certified state-subsidized schools in Flanders and Brussels also have access to Bednet.
The Belgian project has been supported by the John & Marine van Vlissingen Foundation since 2014. The Foundation’s contribution has been put towards the purchase of IT equipment (computers, screens, printers) and the installation thereof in the designated classrooms, homes and/or hospital rooms.
