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EUROPEAN PROJECT
Europe really needs reading – so Read. For Real!
European Authors Day becomes the real fest of literature.
The huge celebration will be held during November 11th-December 12th each year. Meetings with European Authors travelling from country to country will take place across Europe.
Schools, preschools, libraries and bookstores from all around Europe will be invited to join in with their creativity and unlimited potential.
More information and details will be published at the end of summer 2025.
REAL READING EXPERIENCE
The vision
Offering the experience of reading REAL books for fun, introducing up-to-date most trendy topics for REAL conversations around books, stimulating pleasure in REAL time around books, treating a conversation with a REAL author or creator as a formative experience - is the vision for #ReadForReal: beyond nationality, latitude, political, social, religious or wealth backgrounds.
READING IS TRENDY
READING IS FUN
READING IS REAL
READING IS THE FUTURE
#READFORREAL
Reading is our future
#ReadForReal is a subversive slogan: underneath the cloak of a certain seriousness lies a strong invitation to multifaceted fun. It emphasizes the importance of experiencing literature in a meaningful way – through live encounters with authors – which is especially vital in today’s deeply digitalized society.
The slogan also highlights the urgent need to turn to books in light of alarming statistics around critical thinking competencies.
Meeting scenarios will be a part of the offer for educators, librarians, booksellers, publishers and whoever will want to join!
#READFORREAL
Let's celebrate together
Join us, help shape the European Authors Day #ReadForReal celebrations across Europe with your activities.
TAKE ACTION – there’s no better person for the community than one who actively engages in it. We invite teachers, librarians, publishers, and booksellers to take part!
Here is the key information about the celebration of the European Authors Day under the slogan #ReadForReal.
EUROPEAN AUTHORS DAY
We work globally and act locally!
The consortium, led by the Universal Reading Foundation from Poland, with partners including the National Library of Poland, Stiftung Lesen from Germany, CICLIC, the French public agency for books and images of the Centre-Val de Loire Region, the Bulgarian organisation Chetene, the Belgian-based Federation of European Publishers and the EURead network, has won the privilege to run a multi-level strategy to raise readership in Europe and promote European literature which will be the continuation of the European Authors Day initiated in 2023 by Creative Europe
The consortium will be continuing Creative Europe’s work around three pillars: annual celebrations of Authors through the pan-European Read.ForReal campaign, annual workshops to strengthen reading promotion professionals and their networks, and annual conferences to create a platform of thought and impact.
