Country strategy for literacy and basic education for adults presented

with a cross -departmental state strategy bundles and strengthens the state of its measures for literacy and basic education for adults. It should protect people with reading and writing difficulties from unemployment and offer them opportunities for advancement.

Around 6.2 million people in Germany cannot read and write sufficiently. For Baden-Württemberg, scientific research assumes that around 700,000 people are affected. With a Cross-departmental country strategy (PDF) The state government will bundle its measures for literacy and basic education for adults and, above all, significantly strengthen in digital basic education. The leadership Cultural Ministry Together with the Economic Ministry , the ministry for Social affairs , the Ministry of Science as well as Ministry for Rural areas developed a strategy to achieve and raise as many people as possible with inadequate basic education and inadequate skills in reading, writing and calculation. They should be addressed as easily as possible in everyday life about tailor -made offers and motivated to participate in courses. The cabinet gave this country strategy green light.

"Only those who can read and understand texts well can inform themselves independently and participate in social life. These are indispensable key skills, in particular on the basis of the extensive digitization in business and society. We will therefore strengthen our efforts to protect people with reading and writing weaknesses from unemployment and offer them as promotion and success opportunities," says Minister of Education Dr. Susanne Eisenmann and adds: "We would like to encourage those affected and show them that they manage to compensate for their weaknesses when reading and writing."

targeted address of those affected

The target groups of the state strategy are particularly employed and unemployed, people with a migration background, people at risk of poverty and long -term unemployed as well as pensioners. The fields of action taken by the ministries involved range from financial and health education to basic political education. This includes the establishment of self -help groups and the address of people in precarious life situations. "The focus on those affected is often the biggest challenge. Thanks to the great commitment of the course instructors, we have had very positive experiences with the country's basic training centers in recent years. This is also confirmed by the current evaluation," says Minister of Education Eisenmann. One of the goals of the Ministry of Culture is therefore to continue the successful work of the new basic training centers. For this purpose, the current state program for literacy and basic education, for which a total of 1.9 million euros have been used since 2019, is to be funded by the EU European social fund (ESF) . The state strategy also includes the development, testing and implementation of digital teaching and learning instruments within the framework of the newly adopted cross-departmental training offensive of the state government next.mit.bildung@bw (pdf) . One million euros is available for this.

further measures

Since 2015, the Ministry of Social Affairs has provided 4.2 million euros annually for language training for migrants, which also includes literacy courses and low -threshold language training programs. These should also be continued. With the support of the Ministry of Science, the Educational University Weingarten href = "https://www.ph-weingarten.de/studium-weiterbildung/masterstudiengaenge/alphabetization-und-grundbildung/" Class = "Link-External"> Master's degree in "Labetization and basic education" furnished. The Ministry of Science is also planning to support the ESF a scientific advisory center for the professionalization of extracurricular teaching staff in the field of literacy and basic education (literacy trainers). In addition to the five departments, members of the State Advisory Board for literacy and basic education in Baden-Württemberg were also involved in the development of the state strategy. The advisory board was founded in 2017; This includes 33 associations and advisory boards, including the state associations, the Baden-Württemberg adult education center, the State Center for Political Education, the State Sports Association, business associations and the four large churches.

Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport: State strategy to promote the literacy and basic education of adults in Baden-Württemberg (PDF)

Next.Mit.bildung@bw (pdf)