Course & Conference
Promoting reading for young people: The READ ON Project way Best practices from a successful reading project. Conference & Course : 19 –22 October 2020 Conference: 19-20 October 2020 Course: 21-22 October 2020 Lisbon, Portugal Organization ID : E10136530
The READ ON course and conference aims to disseminate the READ ON project, its goals and the good practices/outcomes of the implementation of the project. We will also provide theoretical contents with regards to the promotion of literature and reading to young audiences. This can be done in many different ways. In this course the participants will be invited to take the role of the young readers, learn to use social media and other types of media in order to get their message across. There will also be time during the course for reflection and discussion.
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Background It is true that reading is, and will always be, one of the main and most important skills that young people ought to master, especially in an increasingly digital and ever-changing society. There is a general feeling that being a teenager and enjoying reading are two differemt worlds. But there is a lot of evidence that young people do read a lot, especially when stimulated to do so. READ ON - Reading for Enjoyment, Achievement and Development of yOuNg people is a European project that aims to provide reading opportunities to a new generation of readers. The project attempts to support and disseminate passion for reading among European youth, mostly between the ages of 12 and 19, through directly and actively involving them in reforming the ways in which they live, share and create literature and reading experiences.
With the support of EACEA’s Creative Europe Program the READ ON (www.readon.eu) project is a four-year project (June 2017 - May 2021), has seven international partners, including schools, festivals, and cultural promotion centres. All of these focus especially on students and young people under 20 years of age: Haugaland videregående skole (Haugesund, Norway), Skudeneshavn Internasjonale Litteratur-og Kulturfestival (Skudeneshavn, Norway), Festivaletteratura (Mântua, Italy), Writing West Midlands (Birmingham, United Kingdom), Agrupamento de Escolas Carlos Gargaté (Almada, Portugal), Associació Tantàgora Serveis Culturals (Barcelona, Spain), and West Cork Music Ltd (Cork, Ireland). The very positive experience and outcomes of this successful project we want to share with the participants at this course and conference.
Objectives This conference & course has been created for teachers, heads of reading clubs/groups, librarians, directors, media specialists and other professionals who work in areas related to reading and who want to find out more about the variety of ways in which reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities can be planned, created, and administered to young audiences. Course participants will be exposed to the use of real texts and will acquire new skills in engaging learners in interactive activities that include input and output individually, in groups, teams and in plenary sessions. Conference & Course goals to: • inform others of the findings and experiences acquired throughout the READ ON project;
• explore, develop and evaluate ‘best practices’ with the collective participation of European teachers, trainers, principals and policymakers; • develop and improve learning processes with new ideas aimed at increasing students’ interest and motivation using stimulating materials from the real world; • encourage and motivate course participants to include the findings and learnings from their own practices, helping them build small groups and networks of cooperation in order to strengthen their future projects and activities concerning reading.
Target audience Teachers (primary, secondary, vocational, adult, special needs); Teacher trainers; Teacher/school librarians, librarians; media specialists, Reading mediators, writers, Head teachers/Principals; other stakeholders.
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Cultural events The Conference & Course will offer cultural events based on Portuguese culture.
Conference & Course activities
Conference and Course Venue
- “How to organize workshops and make students participate actively in Creative Writing” Jan Lisbon Carson, Author Northern Ireland. Someone said: «If I had to describe Lisbon in one - Practical workshop in Creative Writing. word it would be charming. If I had two words it - Reading promotion: the experience of Read ON would be utterly charming, and if I had ten words partners at Literature festivals. they would be: charming, picturesque, fishy, tiles, - My Life in Strips - How to organize workshops sunny, white, red, blue, and make students friendly, and arty. participate actively. There are so many - Youthcast - new more words to describe technology to promote Portugal’s capital that reading and literature. I’m sure anyone Conference reading this could come Participants’ corner - an up with an entirely opportunity for different list. At the end delegates to present of your visit feel free to and share own build your own! experiences and details Writer Jan Carson, from Ireland from their own Do yourself a favour institutions. and discover the relaxed Portuguese in you! Maybe - Participants in dialogue: Recommendations and you cannot visit every museum in town in three focus areas from the course. days, but that’s precisely the point: take your time. - READ ON Market place and Exhibition of the Find yourself a little pastelaria (pastry shop) on a READ ON materials/products. pretty street. Sit in the sun. Order a coffee. Watch people. Enjoy life. You won’t manage everything in Course time anyway. So why hurry?» The course will have a variety of activities requiring participants’ active participation. —–— Practical training (hands on) reading, both on From the program paper and digitally, as well as how to use social media to improve writing skills. Conference ‘Ice-breaking’ activities. - The READ ON project: How we have worked and Plenary sessions . what we have achieved - Odd Henning Johannessen, Q&A sessions with board members and invited Project leader READ ON. key-note speakers/guests. - Key note conference: Reading and Youth: what can we do? - Experiences with reading programmes and their influence on learning.
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Conference & Course fees Conference & Course fee : € 280 Includes all the materials and cultural visits. Accommodation & Subsistence—4 days : € 640 includes four nights at a four star hotel, in a single room in Lisbon, including all meals and social activities & cultural evening. Total payment: € 920 —/— Fee for attending only the Conference: € 200 Includes conference materials. Accommodation & Subsistence: € 400 includes two nights in single room at a four star hotel, in a single room in Lisbon, including all meals and social activities & cultural evening. Total payment: € 600 —/— Fee for attending only the Course: € 200 - Includes course materials. Accommodation & Subsistence: 400 € Includes two days in single room at a four star hotel, in a single room in Lisbon, including all meals and social activities. Total payment: € 600 —/— Cancellation fee (after 31 August 2020): € 300 Link for pre-registration ( at the moment, we need only to estimate the number of participants) :
https://tinyurl.com/readonlisbon
How to get funded? Our Conference & Course is regarded as an In-service Training Course under the Erasmus+ program. If you have received a KA1 grant, you can use it for this event. The deadline for Erasmus+ KA1 applications is the 5rh February 2020 at 12:00 (midday Brussels time) Course Organization ID : E10136530 Contact your ERASMUS+ National Agency (NA) for more information. IMPORTANT: You must register your organization and you need an Organisation ID before applying for Erasmus+ funding. Find a step-by-step guide to register your organization: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/
erasmus-plus/resources/registration-organisations_en
Contacts and more information João Paulo Proença: National Project coordinator (Portugal) : Email:; readonportugal@gmail.com Mobile: +351 966568121 Learn more about the Project https://readon.eu https://www.facebook.com/readoneu/