This paper analyses the relationship between the teacher technology competence and their use of technology under the mediating influence of ease of use. The paper presents a set of results that are empirically tested on a sample of 387 high school and higher secondary school teachers from across 14 districts in Kerala, a southern state in India. A majority of these respondents had a teaching experience of more than eleven years and had been using computers for more than five years. The results reveal that technology competence among these teachers was moderately but positively correlated to their actual use of technology and this relationship was found to be mediated by ease of use of technology. The paper discusses the implications of these findings and makes recommendations to leverage these relationships so as to achieve greater technology integration.

The Europe 2020 strategy is the EU's agenda and innovation policy for growth and jobs for the current decade. It emphasizes smart, sustainable and inclusive growth as a way to overcome the structural weaknesses in Europe's economy, improve its competitiveness and productivity and underpin a sustainable social market economy. One of the key goals of regional development in urban area is to promote climate change and increase the usage of energy from renewable energy sources. The aim of this scientific research is to show how important cities are for improving climate conditions and reducing reverse environmental impact.

The paper aims to clarify the process of reaccreditation in Croatia and the standards for quality evaluation and to show the internal structure of the quality assurance system based on the example of a higher education institution that successfully passed this procedure during 2019. The importance of the work is evident in the enrichment of European scientific literature by presenting the re-accreditation process in Croatian higher education.