To encourage reading as a lifelong mechanism for skills development and critical thought

We must foster the encouragement of reading in cooperation with the educational institutions of Catalonia to develop critical thought, to learn how to learn and to help build lifelong skills. The current reading plan for Catalonia – applicable until 2030 and recently approved through cooperation between the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education – needs to be implemented correctly to have a decisive impact on the education system through students, teaching staff and educators to generate emotional settings that foster reading, comprehension, critical ability and creativity. At the same time, it is vital to promote local commerce through the network of bookshops and to foster the development of reading in conjunction with the educational community and the network of libraries. School libraries provide the gateway to universal reading and the "reading towns" project constitutes an excellent initiative.