IBBY European Regional Conference 2025

“Books make a difference! Children’s right to read in challenging times”

Thursday, 3 April 2025, from 9.00 to 13.15
Sala Concerto, 1st Floor, Services Centre, Wing D, 
Bologna Children’s Book Fair

Protecting children’s right to read, to be heard and to access the widest range of books are the themes of this conference. Europe is facing a time of change, politically, socially and economically. Culture, education, children’s literature do not remain on the sidelines at such moments. Children’s books are a tool for the transmission of political, social, educational and moral ideas, and the adults who produce, or make them available, for children must be free from censorship and political intervention. 

This IBBY European Regional Conference on Thursday, 3 April 2025, at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair will feature the importance of developing agency for children. It will look at restrictions experienced by publishers, creators, reading promoters, researchers and human rights activists from 12 different countries. And it will work out solutions on how to strengthen the IBBY network in order to make a difference for children and their advocates in these challenging times. 

Programme and Registration: www.ibby-europe.org 
Registration is free of charge. Donations to the IBBY Children in Crisis Fund are welcome.

Organising Committee: Doris Breitmoser (Germany), Hasmig Chahinian (France), Charalambos Demetriou (Cyprus), Eva Devos (Belgium), Sabine Fuchs (Austria), Laia López Arboleda / Marta Roig (Spain)
Visual: David Pintor