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Promotion of Reading

17-18 May 2013, Lviv, Ukraine

On May 17-18, 2013, during the Lviv International Children's Festival the international training seminar for participants from Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia was held. The seminar entitled "Reading promotion for children and youth" was implemented within the Book Platform project (with the support of Eastern Partnership Culture Programme) by Next Page Foundation (Bulgaria) and NGO Publishers' Forum (Ukraine).

Specialists in promotion of reading, educators, researchers, librarians (among them the most successful organizers of the Ukraine's Best Reader contest) from Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia had gathered for a two-day seminar in Lviv to share various techniques of promoting reading among children and young adults.

The seminar was opened by Bohdan Kordon of the Lviv Regional Council and Iryna Magdysh of the Lviv City Council who confirmed the local authorities' commitment to promoting reading in Lviv and Ukraine.

The seminar aimed at:

Providing practical knowledge on various techniques of reading promotion among children and young adults, which can be used in modern information environment.
Developing a platform for discussion and exchange the international community of librarians, educators, researchers and other specialists as well as presenting examples of foreign practices.

The seminar was success both in an atmosphere of open debates and active commitment, the two days included useful presentations by Elżbieta Olszewska, (board member and program director of the Foundation ABCXXI, Poland) about children in the world of values and education through reading, by Dr. Sigrid Fahrer (project manager at Stiftung Lesen, Germany) on aspects on reading in the digital age. Representatives of all participating countries as well as special guests from Bonn City Council presented the most interesting and successful reading initiatives during the panel discussion. During the training, conducted by Olena Bashun (training center manager at Bibliomist program, Ukraine) and Olena Liublianska (head of analytical department of Lugansk Regional Youth Library, Ukraine), participants worked hard and tried to develop a methodology and practical steps for future actions of promotion of reading that could be implemented in their cities and villages.