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24th European Conference on Literacy – Literacy. The Door to a Better World

The 24th European Conference on Literacy took place in Ljubljana from 6 to 8 July, bringing together more than 400 participants from all continents. LITTERA was represented by members of its Board, who presented a poster commemorating the Association’s 30th anniversary, as well as by several members who delivered presentations in well-attended sessions.

New Governing Bodies of Littera for the 2026–2028 Term

At the most recent Electoral General Assembly, held on 4 May, the new governing bodies of Littera were elected:

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

President: Fernando Azevedo

Vice-Presidents: Ângela Balça; Maria de Lourdes Dionísio; Marijn Brouckaert; Micaela Ramón.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY BOARD

President: José António B. Soares de Carvalho

Vice-Presidents: Iris Pereira; Maria Alfredo Moreira; Paulo Costa

SUPERVISORY BOARD

President: António Branco

Members: Joaquim Guerra; Rui Vieira de Castro

The winning list stood for election with a Manifesto and an Action Programme for the 2026–2028 term.

The Electoral General Assembly was preceded by the Ordinary General Assembly, at which the 2025 Activity and Financial Reports were approved, together with the opinion of the Supervisory Board.

2nd RIUL Portugal Symposium 2025 – Horizons of Reading in a Digital World

This symposium, supported by LITTERA, took place on 4 and 5 December 2025 at the School of Education and Social Sciences of Leiria and at the Auditorium of the Museum of the Moving Image (MIMO) in Leiria.

The Symposium featured four keynote lectures and 15 presentations of high quality and social relevance by researchers who had received personal invitations to participate, as well as 13 open-submission presentations delivered in parallel sessions by participants from national and international universities, in accordance with the programme available at https://sites.ipleiria.pt/2riul/indice-2/.

The significant participation and engagement of researchers, academics, and members of the public (100 registrations), mainly students from the Polytechnic University of Leiria and primary and lower-secondary school teachers, attest to the scale of the event and its potential educational impact.

From 2 to 4 July 2025, the EATAW Conference took place at the University of Minho, with the support of Littera, under the theme “Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI.”

Several Littera members also presented papers at the

6th Baltic Sea Conference on Literacy – Literacy Environments–Environmental Literacy, held from 4 to 7 October 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia.