Project promoter: Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library (LT)
Project title: Innovative Reading Promotion Solutions for Lithuanian Libraries in Regard of Developing Social Relationships between Children and Youth with the Environment
Project code: LT04-1-KM-K01-019
Project eligible expenditure: EUR 219 978,00 (EUR 168 283,17 grant from the EEA financial mechanism; EUR 29 697,03 budget co-financing; EUR 21 997,80 own resources of the project promoter)

Project signature date: 20 July 2021
Project implementation period: 20 July 2021 – 22 November 2023

The project aims to create new and innovative product to promote youths’ motivation for reading in various Lithuanian regions. New product - a virtual game for youth will be linked with most relevant content in three book collections that will be shared between current project network members - three public libraries of Panevėžys, Kaunas and Klaipėda regions. Accurately selected literature, motivating challenges and virtual tasks based on reading will complement the game and help youth to tackle various social problems faced in their local environments. At the same time, it will help to develop much needed reading habits.

During the project it is planned to promote youth motivation and opportunities to read and participate in cultural education events and inclusive educational activities, in which reading books will be presented as a creative and stimulating activity. Therefore, all reading challenge game and its book collection will be available to youth in a free mobile app. Moreover, all the books and literature related to the game will also be available on special themed shelves in libraries and special book-issuing "post offices" in other urban areas.

Target groups of the project: Panevėžys, Kaunas and Klaipėda region youth.
Project partners: Klaipėda County Ieva Simonaitytė Public Library, Kaunas County Public Library, Black book AS (Norway).