Welcome

to the web site of the Best European Schoolbook Awards

In 2009 a new competition for the best schoolbooks was launched. 2010 is its second year.This competition which gives awards to the best schoolbooks in Europe is co-organised by the Frankfurt Book Fair, the IARTEM (the International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media) and the EEPG (European Educational Publishers’ Group).

Who can participate?

Participation is open to all European educational publishers and other providers of education materials and media.

Why should you participate?

• it is a marketing tool for high quality schoolbooks and educational materials
• the winners of the Gold prizes will receive an original work of art
• the winners of the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards in each of the two categories will receive a diploma (in two copies)
• all participating titles will be evaluated by an international jury of outstanding experts on textbooks and education
• each participating title will receive written feedback of one page where the jury describes the strengths and weaknesses of each title
• the evaluations of the three best schoolbooks in each of the two categories will be publicly available on the award  web site for a whole year and will be sent as a press release to all relevant newspapers and magazines
• all participating titles will be displayed during the ceremony when the prizes will be announced during the Frankfurt Book Fair 2010
• the three best titles in each category will receive a package of adhesive stickers to put on the covers of the winning books
• all awarded schoolbooks will be presented in a special section of (www.schoolbookawards.org) with pictures of the covers and sample pages form each book

Who are the organisers of the Best European Schoolbook Awards?

This competition is co-organised by three international organisations with special interest in education and schoolbooks;

1. The Frankfurt Book Fair which is well known as the biggest book fair worldwide and which is giving high priority to educational publishing in the coming years;

2. The IARTEM (International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media) is a non-profit organisation independent of any institutional or commercal interest. It is a community of researchers worldwide with the aim to promote research on and understanding of textbooks and educational media. In view of the fact that seven members of the Best European Schoolbook Awards jury are members of IARTEM it should be stressed that IARTEM sustains the importance of assessing the quality of textbooks, and will do her utmost to base the assessment on research;

3. The EEPG (European Educational Publishers' Group) was founded in 1991 as an association of educational publishers in Europe, at the moment with 24 publishers as members from 24 European countries. Until 2008 the EEPG has been organising an internal annual competition of the best schoolbooks. However, it has been decided to expand this competition (as well the jury who evaluates the books) to all educational publishers in Europe.

Please click on the logos in the top right corner to find out more about the co-organisers of the Best European Schoolbook Awards.