Braga received the final phase of the Intermunicipal Reading Competition

Forum Braga was the stage for the final phase of the Intermunicipal Reading Competition, an initiative developed by CIM do Cávado, in conjunction with the Intermunicipal Networks of Public and School Libraries, the Network of School Libraries and several partner entities of this first edition, which there were 96 participants, with 12 students from four educational levels receiving awards.

With the theme ‘Literary Writing about the 25th of April and Freedom’, this initiative, aimed at children and young people in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of Basic Education and Secondary Education, aims to encourage reading habits and test written and oral expression skills among the school population, in a playful aspect of reading.

The awards ceremony took place yesterday and was attended by Ricardo Rio, president of Braga City Council and CIM Cávado, and the councilor for Education, Carla Sepúlveda. The mayor highlighted that the six municipalities that make up the Cávado CIM “have worked hard together with all the partner structures of this initiative” which has the particularity of “developing reading habits, while at the same time contributing to greater civic and cultural participation and educational for children and young people”.

Ricardo Rio highlighted the importance that reading has “in the training of our citizens, particularly young people”, and its transformative power for their own future and the future of the territories. “Reading is always an opening of horizons and an enriching factor that has the capacity to educate our critical sense and forces us to think about everything that surrounds us”, he said, highlighting the “remarkable commitment” of students and teachers at educational establishments in the Cávado region that, since November last year, participated in the different phases until reaching this intermunicipal phase.

With the purpose of continuing the work developed throughout the 16 editions of the National Reading Competition, within the scope of the National Plan, CIM do Cávado and its partners assumed the strategic importance of maintaining this “celebration of reading and writing” in order to consolidate continuous and dynamic reading practices among Basic and Secondary Education students.

This first edition of the Cávado Intermunicipal Reading Competition involved municipalities and schools in Cávado, as well as the General Directorate of Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB).