iRead4Skills D2.2 Overall skills and gaps survey
Date: 26/10/2023
APPENDIX 1. Information to the participants
Project: iRead4Skills – Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills
Development (start date: March 2023; end date: February 2026)
Coordinator: Raquel Amaro (NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal)
Please pay attention to the following information carefully before deciding to participate in this survey.
1. This project aims to promote the development of reading skills through an innovative intelligent reading
system that evaluates texts complexity and suggests appropriate readings according to the user reading
skills level, that can also be used by trainers in the creation or adaptation of texts. The project also aims
to establish and monitor the relationship between improving reading skills and other fundamental skills
(such as numeracy and ICT), transversal skills (including technical skills, communication skills, team-
working skills, customer handling skills, problem solving skills, etc.) and aspects such as motivation,
citizenship, and well-being.
It is an European project involving NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal (coordinator), INESC ID – Instituto
de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Lisboa, Portugal; LISER
– Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Luxembourg; Mindshaker, Serviços informáticos,
Lda, Portugal; Ministério da Educação, Portugal; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain; Université
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
As a direct stakeholder of the system to be developed, your insights are fundamental to the efficient and
successful development of the project.
2. The participation in this survey involves answering several questions on skills and competences, existent
and foreseen job conditions, challenges, and difficulties, and reading activities.
3. The personal data collected and treated will be exclusively those required to reach the goals of the
project. The data treated in the context of the project will be used in the development of the complexity
analysis system and in reports to funding and policy entities such as European agencies and/or policy
makers, responsible for implementing the system and assessing the project results.
In this survey, you will be required to provide the following personal data:
Sociodemographic information: gender, age, native country, broad area of residence, mobility, language
skills, family situation, employment, and health.
Language skills and level of education: languages knowledge, school career.
Acquisition of reading skills and of other skills: reading education history, reading habits, training history,
reading skills level and difficulties, other skills levels.
Health and well-being: health history, relation between social activities and reading difficulties.
No identification document or number of identification document will be requested.
The personal information requested is required to determine your eligibility for this survey, as well as to
inform relations between specific conditions.
The legal basis for the treatment of your personal data is your informed consent, as the data detainer,
hence the request to understand this information.
4. Your response to the survey will be pseudonymised by the survey platform: respondent's IP address
location data and contact info (if requested) will not be stored. Your data will be stored in such a way that