The document summarizes an international workshop on information literacy development in schools that took place in Krakow, Poland in June 2011. The workshop was part of the EMPATIC project, a two-year European Commission-funded project aimed at promoting strategic approaches to information literacy education across different levels and sectors of education. The workshop's goals were to discuss strategies, models, and methods for developing information literacy in schools, share experiences and advice on the topic, and validate project deliverables related to strategic models and case studies of information literacy.

1. International Workshop „Information Literacy Development in the School Sector” 8 June 2011, Poland, Kraków Sabina Cisek, Maria Próchnicka Institute of Information and Library Science, Jagiellonian University in Krakow 1

2. Basic facts EMPATIC = Empowering Autonomous Learning through Information Competencies EMPATIC website http://empat-ic.eu/ Project funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme the managing EU agency = EACEA = the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/index_en.php EMPATIC is transversal and belongs to Key Activity 4 Dissemination and exploitation of results http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/llp/index_en.php 2

3. Basic facts Duration of the project = two years, 2010 – 2011 EMPATIC partners http://empat-ic.eu/eng/Partners MDR Partners, http://www.mdrpartners.com/, UK CERIS Istituto di Ricerca sull'Impresa e lo Sviluppo, http://www.ceris.cnr.it/, Italy Jagiellonian University, Institute of Information and Library Science, http://www.uj.edu.pl/, http://www.inib.uj.edu.pl/, Poland Technical University of Crete, http://en.tuc.gr/, Greece The Turkish Librarians Association, http://www.kutuphaneci.org.tr/, Turkey 3

4. The focusof the EMPATIC project Effective exploitation of the results of the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) and related actions, connected with the Information Literacy development in Europe, including IL initiatives within the four sectoral programs, that is Comenius (school sector), Erasmus (higher education sector), Leonardo da Vinci (vocational education) and Grundtvig (adult learning) 4

5. The focusof the EMPATIC project The EMPATIC project aims to promote strategic (conforming to the prepared, considered, and agreed proceedings strategy) approach to Information Literacy education for citizens and societies in Europe 5

6. The aims and objectives of the EMPATIC project Its main aims are to: improve current perceptions among policy makers in Europe regarding the role, value and implementability of Information Literacy in learning pave the way for the extended piloting and eventual mainstreaming of information competencies in all levels of education and their integration in the reform of curriculum frameworks The core objectives of the project are to: draw together and valorize the results of previous Information Literacy initiatives and projects across the school, university, adult and vocational learning sectors use this evidence to influence policy makers’ perceptions and actions to support a marked increase in piloting and mainstreaming of Information Literacy have a significant impact on validating new learning paradigms and strategic thinking on curriculum reform 6

7. The aims of the International Workshop „Information Literacy Development in the School Sector” 8 June 2011, Poland, Kraków To discuss strategies, models and methods of Information Literacy (IL) development in the school learning sector across the UE To share experiences, opinions, advice on development of the information competencies and culture among students, teachers and other groups 7

8. The aims of the International Workshop „Information Literacy Development in the School Sector” 8 June 2011, Poland, Kraków To validate the EMPATIC products up to date, in particular the Deliverables 4.1 and 4.2 http://empat-ic.eu/eng/Reports/D4.1-Strategic-Models-for-Information-Literacy http://empat-ic.eu/eng/Reports/D4.2-Illustrative-Case-Studies 8

9. 9 This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This project or publication reflects the views only of the author and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any substantial information contained therein