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Culture and Creativity

2024 Day of European Authors Conference

Fostering collaboration between the book and education sectors to tackle the decline in reading among young people.

25 - 26 March 2024
Museum of Leuven, Leopold Vanderkelenstraat 28, 3000 Leuven, Belgium

About the event

 

In the context of the second edition of the Day of European Authors the European Commission organised a conference with the objective to foster collaboration between the book and the education sectors to tackle declining reading skills and habits among young people.

This conference explored the many examples in Europe of how authors and book professionals can cooperate with teachers and schools to develop formal and informal ways of bringing books and literature closer to students.

 

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The conference provided an opportunity to:

  • share good practices that promote reading from an early age through formal and non-formal learning
  • highlight the role of European authors and book professionals in promoting reading and multilingualism in and outside schools
  • propose recommendations on how to tackle the declining reading skills and habits in Europe

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Georg Häusler is currently the Director for Culture, Creativity and Sport in the European Commission (DG EAC). Prior to that, he was Director in another Commission department for seven years.

He joined the Commission in 1999 and has had several senior posts including as Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Dacian Ciolos, from 2009 to 2014.

Before he began his Commission career, he was Secretary General of an EU-wide NGO. He studied law (PhD in 1993). He is 55 years old and married, with one son.

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