Brussels launches European Coalition for Literacy after PISA results

ANDm communicated, the community executive states that this coalition will bring together “schools, educational and training institutions, libraries and cultural organisations, associations of teachers, parents and students, as well as public authorities”.

“ The aim of the coalition is to share expertise and strengthen cooperation on topics such as early childhood as a basis for literacy and training of literacy professionals”, says the executive.

The European Commission notes that it has decided to launch this coalition in a context of “persistent challenges in the field of literacy”, which it considers to be “a fundamental basis for learning, participation and resilience in a rapidly changing Europe”.

“ However, the results of OECD PISA 2025 show that 31.3% of 15-year-olds in the European Union have difficulty understanding basic texts,” the Commission points out.

Cited in this statement, the Vice-President of the European Commission with the portfolio of skills, Roxana Minzatu, states that the results of PISA clearly show that the European Union needs to “intensify its efforts in the field of reading”.

“ We must ensure that all young people in Europe develop the literacy skills they need to learn, participate fully in society and succeed in life. Reading is the basis ", defends.

In this context, the Vice-President of the European Commission considers that the European Coalition for Literacy will enable “to strengthen cooperation and support more effective action in the field of literacy”.

This coalition, which had already been decided in May, was officially launched today by the European Commission within the Union of Competencies, an initiative by the Community executive to ensure that the EU population has higher levels of basic and advanced skills.

PISA 2025, released on September 8, reveals that the 15-year-old Portuguese youth again worsened mathematics, reading and science.

In the case of Reading, Portugal registered the worst historical value ever, aggravating a downward trajectory whose results represent already more than a year of lost study.

According to the report, students who held the Reading Test last year had 462 points, i.e. eight points below the score obtained in 2000 – the first time Portugal participated in PISA – on a scale on which 500 points is the OECD average reference.

On the other hand, mathematics, knowledge fell back to levels of 2003, when Portugal participated for the second time in PISA and scored 466 points. The students who took the test last year had 460 points in Mathematics.

Science was the discipline with the lowest decline, keeping in line with the OECD average, with 482 points.