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...
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IVQ (Information and Everyday Life): more than a national survey
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...
Canadian Centre for Literacy – Fall Institute 2013
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...
The EBSN Academy has officially been launched!
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...
Literacy in focus in France
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...
Read the Recommendations from the EBSNs Learning Partnerships!
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...
Save the Date!
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...
The EBSN Academy
Good news are beginning to drip in! The two Norwegian proposals for the EBSN Academy have been accepted! Read more about the EBSN Academy
BASKET on-line debate summary
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...
Measures taken to reduce the Digital Divide
Research shows that most Norwegian adults are motivated for further learning to improve their digital competence. However, a large group reported that they miss arenas for such learning. For those who have little or no digital competence, both in the Norwegian...