Ordinary Member

Lire et Écrire - Reading and Writing

Who we are?

Lire et Écrire has three main objectives:

  • focussing public opinion and the authorities attention on adult literacy and the urgent need to combat its causes and provide solutions;
  • increasing the number of literacy training centres for young people and adults;
  • seeking means of creating effective structures to combat illiteracy within the French-speaking community of Belgium.

 

What we do?

Lire et Écrire’s main activities are:

  • political lobbying at federal and Community levels;
  • organising campaigns to focus attention on literacy and encourage those in need, to take part in literacy training;
  • coordinating events for the “International Day of Literacy” (8 September);
  • promoting international relations, mainly with UNESCO, the European Union, and the Flemish-speaking community of Belgium;
  • developing joint research and education methods.

 

Best practices

Eur-alpha (2009-2013): European network for adult literacy and numeracy

Grundtvig workshops against illiteracy: Lire et Écrire Communauté française (Belgium) proposes a thematic workshop in Brussels, from 12 to 19 April 2014.

A research-action training starts from a real unsatisfactory situation a group has to face and is willing to overcome. The group of learners will have to combine two attitudes to find a solution: behaving alternately as a researcher and as an actor.

Unfortunately, this method is not frequently used in adult literacy work. It is, however, a fantastic tool linking access to basic skills and greater self-determination within a collective project.

This workshop is for European specialists in charge of basic skills courses for adults and engaged in combating illiteracy:

  • literacy providers
  • literacy practitioners
  • heads of associations of popular education.

Publications

Eur-alpha:

  • Enhancing the power to take action: available in EN and FR
  • The learners Manifesto: available in DE, in EN, in ES, in FRPTSL and in NL
  • The tutors Charter: available in ENESSL and FR

EAEA brings together
120 organisations from 43 countries.

Members in Belgium

Associate member

The Digital Collective (DigiCo)

The Digital Collective is a non-profit organisation advocating for the digital inclusion of marginalised communities across Europe.
Read more

Associate member

GO! onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap - Education of the Flemish Community

GO! has 10 centres for adult education and organises public education for the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. We believe in...
Read more

Associate member

Service Général de la Jeunesse et Education permanente - General Service of Youth and Permanent Education (Lifelong Learning)

Service Général de la Jeunesse et Education permanente is the General Service of Youth and Permanent Education (Lifelong Learning) of the The...
Read more

Ordinary member

Lire et Écrire - Reading and Writing

Lire et Écrire focuses public opinion and the authorities attention on adult literacy, aims at increasing the number of literacy...
Read more

Members by country

  • a
  • b
  • c
  • d
  • e
  • f
  • g
  • h
  • i
  • j
  • k
  • l
  • m
  • n
  • o
  • p
  • q
  • r
  • s
  • t
  • u
  • v
  • w
  • x
  • y
  • z
X
Armenia
Austria
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Europe
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Malta
Moldova
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
Other
Poland
Portugal
Republic of North Macedonia
Romania
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom