Literacy and basic education

Promote basic education

Signs, forms, safety instructions, ticket machines – without sufficient reading and writing skills, everyday life and work can sometimes become complicated.

Around 6.2 million adults aged 18 to 64 have low literacy and therefore have difficulty reading and writing.

According to the 2018 Leo study by the University of Hamburg, this represents 12% of the total population.

More than 62% of this group of people are employed.

For more than 50% of them, German is their native language.

Low literacy puts people at a disadvantage.

With our offers we promote basic education in the areas of

• Reading and writing
• Calculate
• Basic IT skills
• Health education
• Financial literacy
• Basic social skills
• Workplace-oriented basic education

Basic education is an important prerequisite for equal participation in all areas of society.

Goals of our offers

With our offerings, we want to enable people to participate in society and initiate professional qualification and further training processes.

Range of services

• AlphaGrund Networks : The project develops the professional potential of semi-skilled and unskilled workers through free and tailored training opportunities.
• Basic Education@Darmstadt : The project offers free reading, writing and arithmetic courses, as well as digital basic education courses.