The reading competition, organised by the German Publishers Association, Börsenverein, in cooperation with bookstores, libraries, schools and cultural institutions, is one of the largest nationwide student competitions in Germany. Established in 1959, over 600,000 students take part every year to present their favourite book and read a short passage from it.
LitCam (Literary Campaign) is a German organization working for educational equality and integration. The aim is to raise awareness of the importance of education in all groups of society and to impart life skills through various engaging projects. LitCam wants to improve educational
opportunities for everyone, regardless of their material or social requirements.
The Indonesian Publishers Association hosted a Symposium on Education to help identify improvements to the overall system. The aim of this symposium was to learn about useful trends that have led to improvements in education across the world, and to improve national educational strategies and learning outcomes.
“Read The World” was launched as a response to the isolation imposed on children and young people during the coronavirus pandemic. The initiative provided a platform for much-loved children’s authors to read extracts of their books and promote the benefits of reading to younger generations.
The Lancet has embraced the SDG goals in a series of Lancet Commissions specifically addressing the SDG goal of good health and wellbeing. The commissions outline the current progress, challenges and solutions that are needed from the research community and society in order to achieve the 2030 SDG 3 targets. Commissions include a review of the “Elimination of viral hepatitis by 2030” and “A UNAIDS–Lancet Commission on Defeating AIDS—Advancing Global Health”.
The goal of Research4Life is to reduce the knowledge gap between high-income countries and low- and middle-income countries. Since 2002, the five programmes have provided researchers in low- and middle-income countries with free or low-cost online access to leading journals and books in the fields of health, agriculture, environment, applied sciences and law.
The Publishers Association (UK) has, in collaboration with the Department for International
Trade, launched The Literacy Project. In this targeted and concentrated initiative, the goal is to match the assets of the publishing industry (people, authors and books) with organisations and local initiatives, in a bid to drive up low levels of literacy and facilitate social mobilisation in the country’s poorest communities.