Author: Zoltan Szabo

On March 1st this year, a group of 66 French stakeholders in our field, led by our French EBSN member, the ANLCI, obtained from the French Prime minister the Label Grande Cause Nationale.  The label “grande cause nationale” is given each year to a different cause (autism and suicide are past examples).  Once an issue has been given the label, all governmental organizations are invited by the prime...

The Education, Training and Youth Forum 2013 will take place in Brussels on 17-18 October. The Forum promotes the idea of “Working together for Reforms” and emphasises the need for policy makers and key stakeholders to work in partnership, in order to foster the successful implementation of reforms at national and regional level, in particular through the opportunities offered by the new EU edu...

What is required of a professional teacher of initial and functional literacies to adults whose mother tongue is not a Nordic language? The Nordic Adult Literacy Network, Alfarådet, has drawn up a description of the competencies required for this complex task. Go to the Nordic network for adult learning's (NVL) website to download the brochure.

Workshops enable adult learners to participate in learning events and seminars taking place in a European country other than their own. They bring together professionals working within the field of adult literacy, from several countries, in order to improve their practical teaching, coaching, counselling, management skills, etc.   Under the 2013 Call, the Workshop action provides traini...

ALFIE, Alphabetisation of Immigrants to Europe, was a Learning Partnership within the Grundtvig / LLP programme, and it gathered policy makers, researchers, teacher training institutions and training providers in the field of “alphabetization” (initial literacy) for adult immigrants. The partnership aimed primarily at establishing a meeting place for the exchange of knowledge, experience, insig...

The IVQ survey focuses (at national or regional level) on representative samples of the general French population, and among other goals tries to identify the proportion of people with low literacy levels among the overall population. In the paper “IVQ: more than a national survey”, Jean-Pierre Jeantheau (Agence Nationale de Lutte contre l’Illettrisme (ANLCI),  concentrates in detail on the IVQ...

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Registration has opened for the Canadian Centre for Literacy Fall Institute, to be held in Montreal on October 27-29, soon after the release of the PIAAC results. Invitees for the Fall Institute include British economist Francis Green, who has studied employability and skills and relationships between employability and health and well-being; David Rosen, American adult educator and research...

        We are still waiting for the final confirmation for some of the workshops you can read about on the EBSN Academy page, but it is now clear that at least three of them have been approved. The first course will take place in Oslo, November 25th to 29th 2013, under the title "Evidence-based delivery of literacy training in the digital era". EBSN members...

Literacy has been declared a Cause Nationale in France, and our colleagues at the ANLCI are in focus, working at national and international level. They are planning an international conference for mid-November this year. The program will be publsihed on these pages as soon as it is ready - but you can already block out the dates in your calendar: Nov 13th to 15th, Lyon, France! Make sure you re...