<< Background >>The issues of adult education, levelling deficits, and proper functioning in society have always been taken into account by both the project leader, AWSB and partners in everyday activities, both educational and research. We live in a world of communication, faster and more efficient, key skills are necessary to function properly, including reading, but most of all understanding what is being read. Meanwhile, the percentage of people experiencing secondary or functional illiteracy is incredibly high - research, or rather extrapolations, show that it may affect up to several dozen percent of the population in developed countries - the results should be approached with caution, as different studies make different assumptions as to what illiteracy is. functional, using texts of varying degrees of difficulty, so that in one test a person could be classified as understanding the text being read, and in another, more difficult, not. The study of readership seems a bit more objective - according to the National Library, only 39% of Poles read at least one book a year in 2019 ... Undoubtedly, this situation is alarming, and one of the reasons for this is that the potential reader is afraid that he will not understand books, so he doesn't even try to start reading. Meanwhile, thanks to the Internet, we are flooded with information, often untrue, people who are untrained in the critical analysis of information sources, i.e. for example comparing them with scientific or popular science studies, are at risk of uncritically accepting even the most fantastic inventions as facts. The consequences can be serious - to today, as many as 50% of people aged 60 have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 in Poland - despite the fact that they had the opportunity. We can safely assume that some of them believed in conspiracy theories about vaccine chips, that they had not been investigated, etc .; the effect is that they are not vaccinated, thus posing a threat not only to themselves but also to the other people.Reading comprehension is a key competence in modern society. Without it, functioning is difficult, it can even be dangerous - misunderstanding, for example, a contract with a bank often leads to financial problems, as a result of misunderstanding the provisions, people fall into debt spirals, losing their savings or life's wealth. Failure to understand an official letter from an official institution may bring us problems with the law. And the failure to understand the manual and the resulting improper operation of the device may even endanger the health or life of the user ...Taking all this into account, we decided to join the Erasmus + activities and support our potential, skills and creativity in the work on reducing the phenomenon of secondary and functional illiteracy. We will create solutions that can be used not only in the countries where the project partners come from, but throughout the EU and beyond, thanks to the fact that all educational and methodological materials will also be developed in English.<< Objectives >>The main result of the project activities will be the development and testing of methodology and educational materials addressed to people suffering from secondary or functional illiteracy. Their use by educators will allow for more attractive and more effective classes, which will improve the quality of adult education.The materials developed by us will be included in the process of educating the staff of institutions participating in the project and added to the pedagogical studies program at AWSB. They will become a tool used in everyday work with people experiencing educational deficits.The activities in the project itself will become an opportunity to establish new and deepen existing contacts between partners, enabling the free flow of ideas, experiences and ideas. Thanks to joint work, the synergy effect will be achieved, creative solutions and adaptations of solutions already used by individual partners will be possible. International cooperation will contribute to closer cooperation within the EU and at the transatlantic level, thanks to the participation of a partner from the USA.The specific effects of educational activities with the use of the materials and methodologies developed in the project will contribute to reducing the occurrence of secondary and functional illiteracy in the population of adult Europeans. Thanks to the internet platform enabling the exchange of opinions and experiences of educators using materials and methodology, it will be possible to develop these tools, improve them and modernize them even after the end of the project - users will be able to modify or develop educational tools on their own, e.g. by creating new comics with characters (human -instruction and human-paragraph), translate, thanks to an open license, materials from English into languages of other countries that did not participate directly in the project.The free flow of ideas, unrestricted research and the search for creative solutions are values that are highly valued in Europe; our project will be their implementation in practice. And its effects, in the long term, will contribute to increasing the level of adult education, which will lead to an improvement in the quality of life and well-being of European citizens.<< Implementation >>The following activities will be implemented during the project:1.Meetings with partners, both face-to-face and on-line, during which the substantive content of the project will be developed (educational materials for adults suffering from secondary or functional illiteracy and the methodology of using these materials in the educational process for educators)2. Preparation and launch of an internet platform for end users and educators using the tools developed in the project. The platform will have 5 language versions (English, Czech, German, Italian and Polish), a user-friendly layout and an intuitive interface, so that it can be used by people who cannot cope with complex texts.3.One-day conference disseminating the project results - organized in Poland, with the participation of project partners, addressed to stakeholders (educational institutions, local authorities, non-governmental organizations dealing with adult education)<< Results >>1. Development of educational materials for people suffering from functional or secondary illiteracy, using comics / short picture stories. The protagonists will be man-instruction and man-paragraph. The materials will be prepared in English, Czech, German, Polish and Italian in such a way that it is possible to easily translate them and possible adaptation to the realities of a given country / ethnic group. 2. Developing the methodology of courses / training for people experiencing problems with reading and writing at the level required for efficient functioning in the modern world (secondary and functional illiteracy) with the use of previously developed teaching materials. 3. Creation of an international internet platform containing didactic and methodological materials, with the possibility of developing them, adapting to the specifics of a given community, etc. (eg enabling to enter texts in a given language in the appropriate places in comics). It will not only be the basis for e-learning, but also a forum for the exchange of experiences of educators working with people suffering from secondary and functional illiteracy. Thanks to the interactivity of the tools and the sharing of experiences, teaching materials will be able to develop and evolve also after the end of the project - thanks to the contribution of users. 4. Conference disseminating the project results - will be organized in Poland, it will be attended by representatives of project partners and stakeholders - people from institutions and organizations dealing with adult education as well as representatives of local authorities and the media, so that the maximum dissemination of the project results is ensured. The long-term effect of the project will be an increase in social awareness of the seriousness of the problem of secondary and functional illiteracy. The developed materials and methodology will contribute to making the educational offer for adults more attractive and modernized, thus fitting into the concept of lifelong education and increasing the level of education, and thus the quality of social life.