Chair: Marijke Bos, Dutch Reading Foundation
Presenters
Evanthia Sakellari and Ava Chalkiadaki, Diavazontas Megalono, Athens, Greece
Bookgifting Initiatives in Greece: First Steps
Tag: 2024
New Evaluations from Switzerland and South Africa
Chair: Izumi Satou, Bookstart Japan
Presenters:
Barbara Jakob, SIKJM, Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media
Buchstart Schweiz/Bookstart Switzerland – Evaluation 2024 and future options
Dorette Louw, Book Dash, South Africa
Closing the ECD Gap: The impacts of a multi-partner approach
Biodiversity & Sustainability in children’s reading
Chair: Daan Beeke, Dutch Reading Foundation
Presenters:
Sofia Rewilak, Caroline Hill-Trevor, and Emma Syme – BookTrust UK
BookTrust’s second Biodiversity Storytelling Summit, in partnership with RENEW and BookTrust and environmental sustainability: an update
Val Stoeva, Detski Knigi – Children’s Books Foundation, Bulgaria
Updates: Bookstart in Taiwan and South Korea
Chair: Lotte Baert, Boekstart Flanders, Iedereen Leest, Belgium
Presenters:
Kim Hyunbin, Book Culture Foundation, Bookstart Korea
Current Status and Challenges: A Case Study of Bookstart Korea
Arni Liu and Lois Liao, Hsin Yi Foundation, Bookstart Taiwan
Aligning with national health and wellbeing priorities
Chair: Julia Norrish, Book Dash, South Africa
Presenters:
Catriona Wallace and Helena Barrett-Duncan, Scottish Book Trust
Engaging with the health sector
and aligning book gifting work with national health and wellbeing priorities
Bookbug within the Universal Health Visiting pathway in Scotland; Neonatal book gifting and reading in hospitals; Antenatal “Bookbug before birth” with young parents and Family Nurse Partnership; Aligning Bookbug to work of Perinatal and Infant Mental Health teams; Engaging with new Speech Language and Communication Leads
Open Forum Discussion and break out rooms: how do you support and engage health professionals who are incredibly busy; what research do you use to evidence health and wellbeing outcomes of book gifting; which different health professionals engage with young families in your country and how are you working with them e.g. allied health professionals like occupational health, speech and language therapist, mental health nurses; how do you engage with the relevant Health policy makers and overarching health associations
Advocacy to National Policy Makers
Chair: Daan Beeke, Dutch Reading Foundation and EURead
Presenters:
Benedict Arora, Director of Communications, Marketing and Digital, BookTrustUK
Reading Together 2024
With upcoming national elections in 2024, BookTrust joins forces with all 12 Children’s Laureates to call on the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to commit to a long-term investment in books and reading for children under seven, and to help every low-income family become a family which reads together.
Emmi Jäkkö, CEO, Finnish Reading Centre, Lukukeskus, Finland, How to contact politicians and engage audiences before national elections