A national initiative for children's and young people's enjoyment of reading in Denmark began in 2023 and will continue until 2025. The investment consists of 8.7 million Danish kroner to strengthen cooperation between schools and public libraries in the work on children's and young people's joy of reading. The think tank Libraries of the Future leads the work, and the goal is to create a strong reading culture in children's and young people's everyday life (Tænketanken Fremtidens Biblioteker 2024). In April 2024, the Danish government presented an upcoming investment of 21 million for increased cooperation between libraries and schools around children's joy of reading. The funds go to public libraries and educational learning centres (formerly school libraries) in the country's schools to buy books and pass on literature to children and young people. It is the Strategic Library Committee, a council under the Agency for Culture and Palaces, which will set the framework for the collaboration (Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen 2024a).
The Agency for Culture and Palaces is responsible for national initiatives around children and reading. Many of the efforts made, including those above, are supported by the government's "Agency for Culture and Palaces’ development fund for public libraries and educational learning centres". The development funds are regulated by law, and an amount is set aside annually in the Danish state budget. Some of the funds are earmarked for national investments, but the funds can also be applied for by public libraries, schools, municipalities and pedagogical learning centres around the country and used for initiatives for children's and young people's reading (Finanslov 2024, s. 127; Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen 2024a). In 2019–2021, DKK 6.9 million of the development funds were set aside to promote the joy of reading and reading communities for children in after-school care. The initiative aimed to give children better opportunities to encounter literature in their everyday life at the schools' leisure centres (Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen 2022). Furthermore, in 2021 funds, DKK 25 million were set aside for the BOGlad initiative to strengthen children's early encounter with literature. The initiative is aimed at children aged 0 to 12 years, and funds could be applied for by libraries and municipalities. This investment also intends to make literature a natural and enjoyable part of children's everyday life (Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen 2023).
Another ongoing initiative in Denmark is "Every word counts", which is an initiative between the central libraries in collaboration with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation and several other organizations to develop products, methods, efforts and tools for good reading experiences and thereby strengthen children's joy of reading and reading culture. The project will run from 2023–2026, and the material produced by the project is aimed at preschools, schools and parents (Danmarks Radio 2024). In Denmark, there is also a national knowledge centre for reading, which is run in collaboration with the country's six colleges for pedagogues and teachers and focuses especially on literacy (Nationalt videncenter for læsning 2024).