Literacy Award

Literacy Award

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE FELA LITERACY AWARD

The search for the recipient of the 13th FELA Award for Innovative Literacy Promotion in Europe is open. Nominations shall be submitted to the Chairperson of FELA by 1 September 2025. Please see the Guidelines and below for details.  

FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN LITERACY ASSOCIATIONS

AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE LITERACY PROMOTION IN EUROPE

To recognise, celebrate and reward innovative work for literacy promotion in Europe nominated by one or more member associations of the Federation of European Literacy Associations.        

The work for which the Award is sought shall have been completed during the two years ending one year before the Conference at which the Award is to be presented. On-going work may be considered eligible provided that significant outcomes have been achieved by the date of nomination.

Note: The 2024 Award was presented at the 23rd European Conference on Literacy in Crete, Greece. The 2026 Award will be presented at the 24th European Conference on Literacy in Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 6-8, 2026

Applications should be sent to the FELA chair Marieta Tzvetkova, Bulgaria    FELALiteracyEurope@gmail.com

Guidelines

  Previous winners

Aleksis Salusjärvi was presented the Award by Marieta Tzvetkova at the 23rd European Conference on Literacy.

 

  • International Literacy Association (ILA) awards
    All necessary information can be found here 

    2019 Tilka Jamnik (Slovenian Reading Association) – the recipient of the Maryann Manning Special Service Award 2019.

    2014 Ulla-Britt Persson (SCIRA, Sweden) – the recipient of the Maryann Manning Special Service Award.

    2005 Renate Valtin (Deutsche Gesellshaft für Lesen und Schreiben, DGLS) – the recipient of the Citation of Merit

    1999 Pehr-Olof Rönnholm (FinRA) – the recipient of the Special Service Award

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