Stiftung Lesen is a Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

, Germany, based non-profit organization

Non-profit organization

Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...

 under the patronage of Horst Köhler

Horst Köhler

Horst Köhler is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union. He was President of Germany from 2004 to 2010. As the candidate of the two Christian Democratic sister parties, the CDU and the CSU, and the liberal FDP, Köhler was elected to his first five-year term by the Federal Assembly on...

, with the purpose of reading education

Reading education

Reading education is the process by which individuals are taught to derive meaning from text.Government-funded scientific research on reading and reading instruction began in the U.S. in the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers began publishing findings based on converging evidence from...

 as well as learning reading competence for all age groups, especially children and adolescent. The scope of the foundations activities is national. The foundation also researches literacy

Literacy

Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material.Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print...

 (including reading in the digital age), publishing some of its reports for the German government.

Objective

With the help opinion formers and decision makers, like parents, teachers, librarians, book-sellers and reading aloud sponsorships many different projects are handled to increase reading skills of people. The foundation has partnered with such well-known organizations as Die Zeit

Die Zeit

Die Zeit is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism.With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper...

to promote its activities.

External links

• Stiftung Lesen
• EU*READ
• One-third of German kids not read to at home
• The End of Literacy
• Reading Foundation
• http://www.lesescouts.derelated action in the schools of Hesse
  Hesse
  Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name of an individual German state.* The cultural region of Hesse includes both the State of Hesse and the area known as Rhenish Hesse in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state...
  
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• http://www.akademiefuerlesefoerderung.depromotional action of Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony
  Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...
  
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• Site pédagogique de travail sur les films à l’école.