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Figure 1. Internet use among children.
Internet use. An important aspect of this seemed to be their educational context. The context that school and university students shared, and the associated tasks (i.e., write a paper on the responsibilities of the different EU institutions), were likely to bring them in touch with the EU in one way or another. In contrast to university students, school students have the advantage of being a more diverse group, and as they are younger, they will have started using the Internet earlier and more naturally than even those immediately ahead of them but already in jobs or at university. With regard to interest in the EU, however, a pre-test to this study showed that the majority of the roughly 50 university students, when asked whether they had ever been on the EU Web site, said they never had. While this may have several explanations, the most likely being a