“Illiteracy, defined as the total inability to read and write, has now been almost completely eradicated in EU, the phenomenon of functional illiteracy is becoming increasingly serious.”
EU Parliament’s report on illiteracy & social exclusion-2002.
Functional illiteracy is reading, writing and calculation skills that are inadequate "to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills beyond a basic level”. Functional illiteracy is contrasted with illiteracy in the strict sense, meaning the inability to read or write simple sentences in
According to a recent study from OECD, it is concerning about 80 Mio people from 15 to 65 in EU. A survey from the European Labour Force (2011) states that there were across EU 73 Mio low educated adults.
Amongst the measures recommended to reduce functional illiteracy, the implementation of
innovative trainings remains one of the best options. ICT based trainings are a suitable solution and also will participate to reduce the digital gap.
The Music Is My Radar project aims to develop a distance learning training in order to improve basic
and transversal skills for functional illiterate persons, aged between 15 and 65 years old, unemployed or employees in a company.