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Conference Digital literacy and strategies for digital inclusion, Zagreb, Croatia,

Conference Digital literacy and strategies for digital inclusion, Zagreb, Croatia,

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The Croatian Reading Association (CroRa) is a national association that promotes literacy and holds an annual professional conference on September 8, date of the International literacy day. Goal of the conference is to gather professionals and initiate discussions in Croatian society on literacy and the importance of reading.

This year, in cooperation with the Croatian Library for the Blind and Školska knjiga (publisher), professional conference … Read the rest

Jyväskylä Conference Language Education for Social Justice

Jyväskylä Conference Language Education for Social Justice

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The 37th Conference of Applied Language Studies, Education for Social Justice Conference will take place completely online on June 1-3, 2021 in Jyväskylä, Finland. Join the conference and register on the Conference website.
What does social justice have to do with language education? Why do we need to talk about social justice as language teachers, teacher educators, and researchers?

At this conference, ELINET organizes a two-hour … Read the rest

UPDATE: Keynotes Online Conference of The Reading Association of Russia 19-11-2020

UPDATE: Keynotes Online Conference of The Reading Association of Russia 19-11-2020

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Update: We did it. The first day of the conference was wonderful. If you were not able to participate online, fore a while (don’t know how long) you can (re)view the keynotes HERE. (1) Colin Harrison starting at -2.40 min., (2) Bill Brozo at -1.48 and (3) Jeroen Clemens at -43 (strange timetable, but you’ll find it this way)

On November, 19, Bill … Read the rest

Report World Literacy Summit Oxford, April 2020

Report World Literacy Summit Oxford, April 2020

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Report about the World Literacy Summit, Oxford, in April 2020
by Dorothee Gaile, Co-Chair of Thematic Working Group on Adolescent & Disciplinary Literacy in the ELINET Association)

Latest news: Literacy is your topic? You can gain free unlimited access to the recorded content, keynote and over 100 expert presentations of the World Literacy Summit 2020 on a “Netflix”-style platform: WLSOnline will be open for … Read the rest

European Conference on Literacy, Dublin July 4-6 2022

European Conference on Literacy, Dublin July 4-6 2022

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The 22nd  European Conference on Literacy and the 46th Annual Conference, which is jointly organised by the Federation of European Literacy Associations and The Literacy Association of Ireland, has been postponed due to COVID-19 until 2022. The Conference will now take place in Dublin, Ireland from July 4th to July 6th, 2022, alongside the 46th Annual Conference of the … Read the rest

Key messages PISA and Beyond Conference December 9, 2019

Key messages PISA and Beyond Conference December 9, 2019

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Reported by Sari Sulkunen, board member Elinet. You can download the PDF version here

The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture organized a one-day conference PISA and Beyond building on the publication of the new PISA results. The conference took place in Helsinki on December 9, 2019. The conference aimed to present the new PISA results and discuss what we can learn from them. Most … Read the rest

CALL for contributions to ELINET’s Annual Topic 2020

CALL for contributions to ELINET’s Annual Topic 2020

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ELINET’s Annual Topic 2020: “Enhancing Digital Literacy Skills: Good Practices for Early and Primary Years Education”
at the 4th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy in Tallinn on January 18, 2020, from 11.30 to 17.30!

This CALL addresses all members of the ELINET Association and external experts to contribute to our Annual Topic (above).
We want to collect, exchange and analyze research and good practice … Read the rest

PISA and Beyond Conference explores new PISA 2018 results

PISA and Beyond Conference explores new PISA 2018 results

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The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture has organised a conference building on the publication of the new PISA results in Helsinki on December 9th, 2019. See the report from Sari Sulkunen, board member Elinet. 

The conference is called PISA and Beyond, and it aims to present the new PISA results and analyze what can be learnt from them. In the one-day conference OECD … Read the rest

4th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy and General Assembly Elinet

4th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy and General Assembly Elinet

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The 4th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy will take place 16-21 January, 2020 in Tallinn, Estonia. During the Baltic Sea Conference Elinet will held a General Assembly on Saturday. Please join us. 

The conference “Searching for a Common Language” is focused on actual themes of literacy and multilingual education:

  • early literacy and intervention
  • literacy teachers and instruction
  • digital competences and literacy
  • literacy environments and libraries
  • equal access to literacy
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World Literacy Summit Oxford UK April 2020

World Literacy Summit Oxford UK April 2020

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Update: due to Covid-19 this conference took place only online. The report of the Elinet contribution will be published soon.

‘Reading changes life’–  this is the title of the  World Literacy Summit, one of the largest world gatherings of  international literacy and education specialists,  held at Oxford University (UK) from April 5-8, 2020.

The Oxford Summit 2020 brings together 600 delegates … Read the rest