Thousands of new book titles and modern material in school libraries

Sofia Zacharaki, Minister of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports, participated remotely successful an lawsuit held connected the juncture of International Children’s Book Day astatine the 1st Primary School of Vrilissia, wherever writer Kyriakos Athanasiadis work his publication “The Most Beautiful Word successful the World” to the children.

The event, attended by students, highlighted the value of aboriginal interaction with books, arsenic good arsenic the important relation of speechmaking successful shaping children’s personalities.

Sofia Zacharaki stressed that fostering a emotion of speechmaking is simply a cardinal precedence of acquisition policy, noting that “books broaden horizons, heighten imagination, and cultivate children’s thinking, contributing importantly to the improvement of progressive and thoughtful citizens.”

“Our extremity is to bring books person to students, boosting creativity, imagination, and the joyousness of reading,” she added.

The Ministry is moving guardant with the instauration of a unified web of schoolhouse libraries crossed the country, aiming to substantially fortify speechmaking civilization and upgrade the acquisition infrastructure of nationalist schools.

Within this framework, caller schoolhouse libraries are being established each year, existing ones are being upgraded, and much than 8,000 schoolhouse units are being enriched with publication collections—laying the instauration for a broad nationalist model for schoolhouse libraries for the archetypal time.

At the aforesaid time, the integer interconnection of schoolhouse libraries with the National Library of Greece is being launched, ensuring broader and adjacent entree for students to acquisition and taste materials.

Additionally, the Ministry is reinforcing schoolhouse libraries with nonrecreational librarians, portion plans see enriching them with up to 2,000 caller publication titles and modern materials, strengthening some caller and existing structures.

The purpose of these initiatives is to alteration schoolhouse libraries into vibrant, welcoming, and originative learning spaces, wherever entree to cognition and modern acquisition tools volition beryllium adjacent for each students.

The caller organization model is being implemented done the programme “Strengthening and Enrichment of School Libraries” nether ESPA 2021–2027, with a full fund of €60 million. It includes, among different actions, the improvement and enlargement of publication collections, staffing with specialized personnel, and the cognition of a National School Libraries Network with the information of the acquisition community.

Special accent connected lit has besides been incorporated into the caller curricula.

Finally, the Ministry of Education, done CTI Diophantus, has distributed implicit literate books (both printed and digital) to each levels of education, from superior to precocious secondary school.

These books are provided escaped of complaint and are taught alongside modular textbooks, aiming to fortify speechmaking habits and captious thinking.