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Here are four initiatives of support:

1. The Polish Book Institute and the Metropolia Dzieci Foundation

The “Give a book to Ukrainian children” initiative is run by the Polish Book Institute together with the Foundation Metropolia Dzieci (Children’s Metropolis Foundation). So far the Polish Book Institute has purchased 7,000 copies of books for children and young people from five Ukrainian publishers, as one component of the project. The books are distributed to public libraries all over Poland, especially to the ones close to the Ukrainian refugee clusters.

You can donate directly to the foundation: Fundacja Metropolia Dzieci – with the annotation “Give a book to children from Ukraine”. IBAN: PL16 1140 2004 0000 3102 8012 1088

There is more information here DONATE A BOOK TO A UKRAINIAN CHILD.

2. Ukrainian Book Institute and Federation of European Publishers

The Federation of European Publishers has been asked by the Ukrainian Book Institute whether we could collect, on their behalf, money to print books for children’s refugees in Europe.

Crowdfunding campaign to support printing of Ukrainian children’s books | GoGetFunding

All money will be managed by the Ukrainian Book Institute and spent to print books in countries where Ukrainian kids are refugees.

FEP press release about it (available here).

3. ODILO: Spain

This is an initiative from the company, ODILO. It is called ODILO Stands With Ukraine and you can visit the landing page here.

To summarise the initiative (which is entirely free):

• Distribute digital Ukrainian content for children and parents / guardians (ebooks, audiobooks, other formats)
• Provide a platform entirely in Ukrainian with customised mobile applications for iOS and Android
• Offer virtual tutoring services for refugees to learn the basics of the language spoken in their new land
• Provide virtual classroom capabilities to Ukrainian teachers to continue lessons with their own classes, but also other displaced students.
• We are working with Ukrainian publishers directly to obtain rights to offer print-on-demand services from Spain and to distribute hardcopies of their titles to governments and municipalities around Europe who are hosting refugees.

There is a lot more to our initiative as ODILO is one of the largest content aggregators with a platform that promotes Unlimited Learning in all formats.

4. Universal Reading Foundation: Poland

Warsaw, March 7th, 2022

Dear all,
We are a leading reading promotion foundation in Poland.
Last Friday we started fundraising money to be able to buy books from publishers in Ukraine, transport them to Poland and distribute them to Ukrainian kids and their families. This is obviously to help the Ukrainian kids here and the publishing industry in Ukraine – both at the same time.
I am writing to ask if you would be able to help.

There are c. 400 000 Ukrainian children in Poland already and this number is the target of this action. We have a warehouse for free, distribution for free, transportation probably also – so the money is needed only for the books.

The fundraising part is tough – not many people understand how crucial it is for those kids to be able
to have a moment of peaceful booksharing with their moms (no dads…), how important it is for
the psychological stableness of these kids but also – how fundamental for the future of Ukraine’s democracy is the survival of the Ukrainian book industry.

If each kid was to get a book we need c. 400k euros for the books.
A couple of days ago a Swedish author found her way to us and yesterday she started her fundraising campaign among publishers and authors in Sweden for our operation. So we hope that other international book industry communities, other organizations, and individual people may want to help.

If credentials are needed – we can send them.
Please visit our website: www.fpc.org.pl – it also demonstrates who we are and what we do.

Help can be sent through:
a/ https://paypal.me/FPCzytania?country.x=PL&locale.x=en_US
b/ https://zrzutka.pl/razemdlaukrainy/s/chwilawytchnienia
c/ EUR bank account: 31 1600 1462 1871 2526 2000 0005
BIC/SWIFT code: PPABPLPK
IBAN PL31160014621871252620000005
d/ USD bank account: 04 1600 1462 1871 2526 2000 0006
BIC/SWIFT code: PPABPLPK
IBAN PL04160014621871252620000006
e/ GBP bank account: 74 1600 1462 1871 2526 2000 0007
BIC/SWIFT code: PPABPLPK
IBAN PL74160014621871252620000007

For bigger help – we will have a direct euro account in a couple of days please email us at
ukraine-funds@fpc.org.pl
We will be grateful for all help, #SlavaUkraini!!!
Maria Deskur
maria.deskur@fpc.org.pl
Fundacja Powszechnego Czytania / Universal Reading Foundation

Books for Ukraine updated

On International Literacy Day 2018, the first National Month of Reading Together (NMRT, Slov. Nacionalni mesec skupnega branja) commenced as a joint initiative of nine organisations. More than 250 partners and supporters proved that unity is strength indeed – more than 700 events were organised with more than 100,000 attendees. The NMRT was complemented with a public awareness raising campaign “Reading Together”: eight Slovenian award-winning illustrators agreed to become the campaign’s ambassadors, with their illustrations representing its visual identity.

In 2019, we want to strengthen the emerging network; we plan to make the website where the events are advertised highly functional and regularly updated (throughout the year, not just during the campaign!). Last year’s team of ambassadors has been joined by Tanja Komadina, another award-winning Slovenian artist, and the posters and postcards (100,000! of them) with her depictions of people reading together are soon to flood Slovenia – and, hopefully, so is the joy of reading.

Organisers: Bralno društvo Slovenije / Slovenian Reading Association & Društvo Bralna značka Slovenije – ZPMS / Slovenian Reading Badge Society 

http://www.bralno-drustvo.si / https://www.bralnaznacka.si/

When: September 22, 2020

Where: Due to Covid-19 measurements, the meeting will take place via video conference.

Agenda

14.00 Welcoming

Dr. Jörg F. Maas, Chair of EURead

14.05 Keynote
Dr. Katarina Barley, Vice President and Member of the European Parliament

14.15 Interview
Prof. Dr. Andreas Schleicher, OECD Director, Directorate of Education & Skills

14.30 EURead network: Examples of good practice

Ana Molina, Asociación Artística-Sociocultural Mestiza, Basque Country, Spain | Valentina Stoeva, Detski Knigi, Bulgaria | Ilmi Villacis, Finnish Reading Centre Lukukeskus, Finland

14.55 5 minute break

Intro

Diana Gerald, Co-Chair of EURead

15.00 Uniting Europe in reading
Bianca Mereuta, Versus, Romania & Daan Beeke, Stichting Lezen, Netherlands

15.15 Update on the development of the Global Network for Early Years Bookgifting
Izumi Satou, Bookstart, Japan & Peter Jenkins, BookTrust UK

15:30 Abridged Annual General Assembly 2020 (members only)

15:45 Further good practice initiatives

ODILO & COVID-19 Elisa Yuste, ODILO

15:50 Wrap Up
Dr. Jörg F. Maas

Contact: shermin.eftekhari@euread.com

Our AGM program is online now.

Under the motto “Get Europe reading again – Campaigns and Programs”, the 5th Annual General Meeting of EURead will take place from 23rd till 25th of September 2019 at the premises of the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the European Union in Brussels, Belgium (47 Rue Montoyer, B-1000 Bruxelles/Brussel).

We will be holding 3 days of plenary sessions on sharing experience and best practices to develop strategies for the promotion of literacy and reading across Europe.

This unique event brings together more than 30 European reading promotion organizations and about 60 guests from business, science and politics in order to initiate new projects and to plan joint actions.

If you are interested in participating, please use the contact details below.

Contact: shermin.eftekhari@euread.com 

Under the patronage of Mr Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission

25 reading promotion and literacy organisations from 22 European countries convened at the 4th Annual General Meeting of EURead from October 17-19, 2018 at the Scotland House in Brussels. In keeping with the motto “Public vs. Private? Models of Funding for Reading and Literacy in Europe”, EURead members discussed the opportunities of funding in the field of education together with participants from publishing houses, companies and politics. The aim is to develop future strategies for the promotion of reading and literacy. In order to raise awareness for early childhood education and literacy, the campaign “Europe Reads” will launch in November 2018.

Agenda and Presentations

Please find the programme of the Annual General Meeting here: EURead_AGM2018_agenda

The following experts were giving a presentation at the 4th Annual Generel Meeting of EURead:

• Rodrigo Ballester, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics Education Culture, Youth & Sport
• Marijke Bos, Project Leader Bookstart Netherlands, Stichting Lezen PPT: Marijke Bos_Bookstart in the Netherlands – Growth and development of an established program
• Ulrika Caperius, Senior Editor and Project Manager, Bonnier Carlsen PPT: Ulrika Caperius_Investment in reading promotion and literacy – a business perspective
• Prof Dr Fank Hakemulder, University of Utrecht PPT: Frank Hakemulder_Return on Investment
• Jule Marx and Samira Pohl, FRÖBEL Bilung und Erziehung gemeinnützige GmbH PPT: Marx Pohl_Parental empowerment in context of kindergarten
• Ana-Maria Stan, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Education and Culture, Unit B2 – Schools and multilingualism, European Commission PPT: Ana-Maria Stan_New Perspectives on Language Competences
• Helga Trüpel, Vice-Chair, Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament
• Christian Pöttler, Shareholder and Managing Director, ECHO Medienhaus PPT: Christian Pöttler_Austrian Reading Day
• Dr Rüdiger Salat, Chairman, Facultas Verlgas- und Buchhandels AG Dr Rüdiger Salat_Austrian Reading Day
• Ilmi Villacis, Director, The Finnish Reading Center (Lukukeskus Läscentrum) PPT: Ilmi Villacis_Launching Bookstart in Finland
• Campaign Europe Reads PPT: Campaign Europe Reads

Impression of the meeting:

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Given the fact, that more than 73 million Europeans lack sufficient reading skills, EURead, the network for European reading and literacy organisations, organised a forum at this year’s Bologna Childrens Book Fair on ‘How to make Europe read again‘.

Joerg F. Maas (EURead and Stiftung Lesen), Ulrika Caperius (Bonnier Carlsen) and Daan Beeke (Stichting Lezen) discussed various ways how to reach out to children, young people, families and the broader public across Europe.

Publishing houses, authors, innovators, non-profit organisations and political decision makers need to work together to make all European citizens read again.

The discussion in Bologna will continue at the Annual General Meeting of EURead in Brussels on September 23-25, 2019.

For further information, please contact anna.sukhyna@euread.com.

Please find the presentation of the discussion in Bologna here.

The third Annual General Meeting of EURead took place from October 18-20 2017 at the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations in Brussels. The meeting brought together experts from the fields of European reading promotion, scientific research, economy and politics including the European Commission.

The aim was to continue and foster the exchange of ideas and experience and to develop further initiatives and campaigns across Europe in order to promote reading and literacy. This year’s meeting focused on challenges and opportunities arising from digitalization in the field of literacy.

Agenda and Presentations

Among others the following experts were giving a presentation at the third Annual Generel Meeting. Please find the presentations here:

• Maurice de Greef, Vrij Universiteit Brussels PPT: Success factors of digtal learning for adult learners and Youngsters with low Levels in education
• Frida Elisson, Head of Digital Skills, Google PPT: Digital Skills_Google Zukunftswerkstatt
• Petra Kammerevert, Chair, Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament
• Andreas Mittrowann, Director, ekz.bibliotheksservice GmbH PPT: A passion for the future of reading – a Mission for hybrid libraries
• Andrea Servaty, Head of Public Relations, Deutsche Telekom Stiftung PPT: STEM Volunteer Readers – make nature and Technology a listening
• Markin Skrabka, goodbooks.pl

Please find the programme of the Annual General Meeting here: EURead_AGM2017

Please find a selection of digital media in reading promotions of the members of EURead here: EURead_AGM 2017_digital projects members

Further information about the European Digital Competence Framework for Citizens (DigComp), developed by the European Commission and the Joint Research Centre: http://ec.europa.eu/social

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