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The European project entitled READy. Addressing Disparities in Reading and Writing Acquisition through Personalising Technologies: A Cognitive and Societal Perspective has been written and coordinated by the project applicant, University of Florence (IT), in cooperation with Pixel. The project was funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Cooperation partnerships in School Education. The READy. project has the aim to aims to establish a transnational universities-school partnership to tackle reading and writing disadvantages throughout Europe, particularly in contexts with a high socio-cultural complexity.

Funding Programme

Erasmus+ Programme, Cooperation partnerships in School Education

Theme

Digital Education

Target group

School Education


Project Reference

2024-1-IT02-KA220-SCH-000250672

Date

01-10-2024 | 30-09-2027

Role of Pixel

Technical Coordinator

Project Details

Project Title

Addressing Disparities in Reading and Writing Acquisition through Personalising Technologies: A Cognitive and Societal Perspective

Context

The acquisition of reading and writing is a crucial aspectof childhood development, fundamental for several schoolsubjects and with a significant impact on subsequent academic success, later adaptation and quality of life inadulthood. Struggling in reading and writing has a profound impact on other learning skills and socio-emotional and low well-being.

Objectives

The READy project aims to
• Enhance primary teachers’ skills on the societal and cognitive underpinnings of literacy acquisition disadvantage and on the digital solutions to tackle them
• Identify children at risk for learning and school difficulties
• Empower transnationally universal cognitive reading-writing skills across different circumstances

Target Group

 The target groups involved in the project are:
• Primary school teachers.
• 1st and 2nd grade primary school children.

Results

The READy project provides school communities with:
• Vast European cooperation sharing knowledge and digitalised procedures to address early difficulties in literacy acquisition
• Advanced teacher preparation and use of digitised tools to contrast learning disadvantage
• Innovative educational strategies to early address societal and cognitive needs underlying literacy acquisition
• Integration of new, evidence-based technological toolkits in the educational practices
• Personalised education paths supported by machine learning

Applicant

Partners