The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD) has convened the School Reading Plan Awards for the academic year 2024-2025, in recognition of the effort made by schools and their contribution to improving the quality of education.
As explained by the Provincial Director, Elena Fernández Treviño, these awards are convened in order to improve reading competence and the treatment of information and promote critical thinking and creativity in the students of the educational centers that offer Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training Cycles, Special Education and Adult Education.
Beneficiaries
Fernández Treviño has explained that the prizes will be awarded to those Spanish schools supported by public funds that offer the teaching of Primary Education, Compulsory Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, Vocational Training Cycles; to adult education centers and special education centers that have developed reading plans projects.
These awards are intended to recognize projects of reading plans in the school environment that perform the following actions in an outstanding way:
(a) Promote the reading of publicly funded non-university education in educational establishments.
b) To contribute to the personal and social development of students through individual and collective reading.
c) Develop and acquire reading skills to improve language communication skills.
d) To improve the provision of school libraries, empowering them as spaces for reading, meeting, research and conversation in order to develop in the students a critical thinking about what surrounds them.
Awards
According to the method by which it is chosen, prizes of € 7500 per center will be awarded. The prizes will be awarded in the following categories and modalities:
· Category 1: centers located in municipalities of up to 5,000 inhabitants.
o Modality A: centers supported with public funds of Infant and Primary Education.
o Modality B: centres supported by public Secondary Education funds, including centres providing vocational training courses and adult education centres.
· Category 2: centers located in municipalities of more than 5 000 inhabitants.
o Modality A: centers supported with public funds of Infant and Primary Education.
o Modality B: centres supported by public Secondary Education funds, including centres providing vocational training courses and adult education centres.
Submission of applications
The deadline for submitting applications will be 15 working days from the day following the publication of the extract of this call in the Official State Gazette.
To participate in these awards, a detailed report of a draft reading plan developed during the 2024-25 academic year and the application, duly completed, must be submitted electronically through the MEFPyD website.
All the information of the call for applications in https://www.infosubvenciones.es/bdnstrans/GE/es/convocatorias/855445