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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...

Two Grundtvig Learning Partnerships have been running within the EBSN Network for the past two years. ALFIE,  Alphabetisation of Immigrants to Europe – whose partnership gathers policy makers, researchers, teacher training institutions and training providers in the field of “alphabetization” (initial literacy) for adult immigrants, and BASKET, Professional Development of Basic Skills Trainer...

LitCam Conference "Literacy and Media: Innovative ways of teaching Media Literacy" For the first time in Helsinki, a LitCam conference will take place on the 16th of August 2013. LitCam is arranging the conference in cooperation with FILI – Finnish Literature Exchange and Finnish Society on Media Education with focus on the theme "Literacy and Media: Innovative ways of teaching Media Literacy". ...

Good news are beginning to drip in! The two Norwegian  proposals for the EBSN Academy have been accepted! Read more about the EBSN Academy

In January the EU BASKET partnership opened an invitation to participate in a moderated on-line debate about the professional development of basic skills teachers. The debate took place over two weeks from the 14th to the 26th January, 2013 and focused on two related questions: Do basic skills teachers need qualifications in teaching adults? Why? Should basic skills teachers be traine...