"According to the EU high level group of experts on literacy, today, the European Union is in a literacy crisis. Poor reading and writing skills can have a detrimental impact with 75% of school dropouts reporting reading problems and 50% of adults with criminal records identified as having reading difficulties. Employees in the 21st century need to have greater literacy skills than in other time periods.During the period 1 September 2014-31 August 2016, five European schools worked together to implement the partnership ”Skills for Life: Literacy” (SLL). The partner schools have been:-High School ”Stefan Procopiu” (Vaslui, Romania) - coordinator-Foreign Language School (Pleven, Bulgaria)- partner-5th General Senior High School of Aigaleo (Aigaleo, Greece)- partner-Yildirim Beyazit Anadolu Lisesi (Bursa, Turkey)- partner-ISISS Cicognini Rodari (Prato, Italy) - partnerThe purpose of the project is to value the literacy potential as a personal and consolidation development instrument of the key transversal skills needed for lifelong learning. Objectives of our partnership: -develop pupils skills in literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening) and of the transversal key competences (critical thinking, attitude networking, communication and collaboration with others, communication and English language, learning to learn, spirit initiative)-reading capitalization strategies for developing literacy skills in students and encourage reading for pleasure among students-developing teachers' knowledge and skills in the design and organization of activities and lessons that help develop among students transversal key competences and skills in literacy-promoting the exchange of innovative practices and experiences between European schools through the development of teaching materials based on strategies for reading, writing, speakingThe project’s implementation was organized based on 6 work packages, each package being coordinated by a partner, as follows: Management and Coordination, Transnational Meetings, ""The teaching of Life Skills with Literacy"" (A Training Manual), ""Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches"" (""Literacy lessons""), Dissemination and Exploitation, Monitorization and Evaluation. The main activities organized within this partnership were:-5 transnational project meetings -activities to make the two intellectual products-more than 150 activities with students to test the exercises proposed for the two intellectual products-activities of dissemination and valorization-activities of monitoring and evaluation (initial evaluation, intermediate, final evaluation of the project five meetings, formative assessment in the activities with students) In the project activities were involved over 1000 students and almost 90 teachers. The main results of the project:- two intellectual products: ""The teaching of Life Skills with Literacy"" (A Training Manual) and ""Think Literacy: Cross-Curricular Approaches"" (""Literacy lessons"").- 5 transnational meetings with 80 mobilities (16 for each partner school). -materials for the dissemination of the project: logo, poster, site, fliers (a flier with the general presentation of the project and a flier with the presentation of the two intellectual products), 6 newsletters at partnership level, Power Point presentations, articles, panels/roll-ups with information on the project, the project page on e-Twinning. - materials for monitoring and evaluation the project at local level and at the level of the partnership-over 160 activities testing the exercises proposed for the two intellectual projects, activities for promoting reading for pleasure among students.The target groups for the implementation of project activities are the teachers and the students aged 14 to 19. There were two main levels regarding the impact of the project on the target groups:-developing the skills in literacy (reading, writing, speaking and listening)-developing the key transversal skills. Literacy competencies are going to help target groups to develop problem-solving skills, the ability to explore issues from their own perspectives, the capacity to apply knowledge to new situations, critical and creative thinking skills, ability to concentrate, to learn how to learn, socializing and communication, initiative spirit.The participanting teachers developed from the personal and also the professional point of view. Teachers have improved the knowledge and abilities in making and organizing activities and lessons which are going to contribute at the development, among students, of the key transversal skills and those in literacy.The slogan of our partnership has been: ”Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope” (Kofi Annan, former UN secretary-general)."