Promoting Reading in Switzerland

Alpha Award 2008 for the Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media SIKJM

Project “Schenk mir eine Geschichte – Family Literacy“

Reading animation in the intercultural library Basle

The Swiss committee for the prevention of functional illiteracy has awarded the Alpha award 2008 to a project supporting reading promotion in families with migrant backggrounds. Intercultural mediators organise parent and child meetings on a regular basis. Reading animations in different languages encourage and enable parents to contribute to the reading of their children in their own native languages in a considerable way.
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Schweizerisches Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM) / (Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media)

http: / / www.sikjm.ch

The Schweizerische Institut für Kinder- und Jugendmedien (SIKJM) – the Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media- is a merger that was founded in 2002, as part of the Johanna Spyri foundation. It receives support from the ministries of science, culture and education and aims to promote reading and to initiate research and documentation in the area of child and youth literature.

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Reading projects of the Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media

Zentrum LESEN der Fachhoschule Nordwestschweiz / Literacy Centre of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland

http: / / www.zentrumlesen.ch /

The Fachhoschule Nordwestschweiz, Pädagogische Hochschule, Zentrum LESEN (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School for Teacher Education, Literacy Centre) at the Fachhochschule Aargau Nordwestschweiz (university of applied sciences, teacher education) on the one hand conducts research in the areas of [ ... ]

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Reading forum Switzerland. Literacy in research and practice

http: / / www.leseforum.ch /

This website addresses experts dealing with literacy in research and practice as well as the interested public. In this context, litracy is understood as the capability to deal with written texts, as well as text-based media in all contexts of social life and at all age levels. The internet service is meant to strengthen the professional discourse on literacy [ ... ]