Alphabetter - learning tools for preventing functional and secondary illiteracy
Programme: Erasmus + Partnerships for cooperation in adult education
Project implementation period: 01.2022-01.2024
Project value: 202 590.00 euro
Partners:
- WSB University (Leader)
- University of California San Diego (USA)
- European Center of Entrepreneurship Competence & Excellence (Austria)
- ENAIP VENETO IMPRESA SOCIALE (Italy)
- MEPCO, s.r.o. (Czech Republic)
Research team leader: Maciej Witkowski, Ph.D., Professor AWSB
The project aims to create methodology and courses designed to prevent functional and secondary illiteracy. Based on the experience of the University of California, San Diego (ranked 18 on the Shanghai List) taken from working with migrants in the Mexican-American border region, the European partners will create a toolkit for educators of people experiencing secondary and functional illiteracy. The project will conduct a pilot with the participation of representatives of the target group.
During the project, the Consortium researchers will collaborate with, among others, Dr Megan Hopkins working in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is a former bilingual primary school teacher and has conducted extensive research examining how schools and school systems organise for equity, with a particular focus on the education of immigrant and multilingual students.
The specific effects of educational activities with the use of the materials and methodologies developed in the project will contribute to reducing the occurrence of secondary and functional illiteracy in the population of adult Europeans.
Research team:
WSB UNIVERSITY
Prof. AWSB Dr hab. Maciej Witkowski - Poland
Dr Michał Szyszka - Poland
Piotr Stoły - Poland
The University of California San Diego
Prof. UCSD Megan Hopkins - USA
Maxie Gluckman, PhD - USA
ECECE
Prof. Veronika Michitsch - Austria
Riccardo Cariani - Austria
Alessandro Zeppelli - Austria
MEPCO
Martin Guba - Czechia
ENAIP
Emanuela Vizzarro - Italy
Marco Origani - Italy