Foreword by ibby president, Peter Schneck

DIFFERENT SECTIONS’ HIGHLIGHTS

The following are examples of the extent of the National Sections highlights that were reported as very successful activities in addition to their regular meetings, conferences, courses, seminars, exhibitions, fairs, awards and contests. For the full range of activities, go to the submitted report that can be downloaded from the Internet by clicking on the list of countries on page five of this summary.

Albania:

In 2007 the section organized an interesting project with the students of six schools of the Tirana suburbs that included various activities: meetings with writers; literature competitions for children; drawing and paintings competitions; establishing theatre groups in each school. The section also established a children and youth theatre group in the libraries, and held an accompanying exhibition of children’s drawings and paintings. A book was later published with the best stories and the children's own illustrations were put on the cover. The book was distributed for free in all the six schools.

Argentina:

Annual training courses in reading promotion strategies are an important source of income. The section also organizes creative writing and illustration workshops for primary school children in the inner city within the framework of the Libros del Cordel [Hanging-Rope Books] joint programme with Compinches [Buddies] children’s magazine.

Austria:

ALIDA: a large database of information about Austrian children’s book authors, illustrators and translators and their work from 1945 onwards. (www,alida.at)

EDM-Reporter: Electronic Digital Media-Reporter, a Comenius 3 Network funded by the Socrates Educational Programme of the EU, which is active in the field of multicultural education aiming to promote the educational use of ICT in this field.