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Literacy Week: Androulla Vassiliou joins forces with Dutch Minister and Princess to highlight campaign
 European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth Androulla Vassiliou joined Dutch Minister for Education, Culture and Science Marja van Bijsterveldt and Princess Laurentien of The Netherlands, who chairs the Commission's high-level expert group on literacy, for a reading event with young pupils at the International School of The Hague on 6 September. Organised in conjunction with the Dutch Reading & Writing Foundation (Stichting Lezen & Schrijven), the event was part of the Netherlands' reading literacy week and also highlighted the International Literacy Day (8 September). The Commissioner heard young children reading excerpts from Night Monkey, Day Monkey by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo.
It is the fourth such reading event held by Commissioner Vassiliou since the launch of her 'Europe loves reading' literacy campaign, which included the setting up of the high-level group to evaluate how best to combat illiteracy.
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Higher education, research and business organisations strongly support the mission of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) to drive more and better cooperation between the worlds of academia, entrepreneurship, research and innovation. This is the result of a public consultation to which nearly 200 organisations and individuals responded. According to respondents, the EIT should play a distinctive role in 'Horizon 2020', the future EU Programme for Research and Innovation, and forge closer links with other European and national efforts. A majority of respondents praised the way in which the EIT ensures the participation of businesses in its work and urged the Institute to step up its outreach activities. The consultation will feed into a 'strategic innovation agenda' for the EIT which the Commission is due to propose by the end of this year.
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Against a backdrop of rising youth unemployment, economic uncertainty in many European countries and civil unrest in some European cities, the EU Youth Conference in Warsaw (5-7 September) looked at what policy-makers are doing to re-engage with young people in order to encourage them to get more involved in civic and political life. Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, took part in the event which brought together 120 youth representatives and policy chiefs from European and national level, as well as young people from Eastern Europe and Caucasus countries. Part of the so-called 'structured dialogue' with youth leaders, which now focuses on youth participation, the meeting was also the Commission's first opportunity to discuss its new budget proposals for education, training, youth and sport.
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 September: the cultural heritage month! More than 20 million people are participating in the European Heritage Days taking place every September in 50 countries across Europe. This joint action of the European Commission and Council of Europe gives access to visitors to thousands of rarely opened sites and unique events.
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Androulla Vassiliou
Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth |
"I want to encourage reading in school, at home, on buses, on trains, in the street. We need to address illiteracy wherever and in whatever form it occurs to give young people a better future."
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