Lecture, Ecriture en Europe dans un contexte de mutation numérique Erasmus Project

Project Title

Lecture, Ecriture en Europe dans un contexte de mutation numérique

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Creativity and culture; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Project: “Reading and writing in Europe in the context of digital migration” – “From script to screen”

With the advent of digital technology our society is going through an unprecedented change; a global cultural revolution that affects all sectors of society. As professionals in the field of books and as education specialists, we wanted this project (which brings together five European countries – Austria, Belgium, France, Poland and Romania) to act as a vehicle for conducting studies and investigating the issues in order to have a better understanding of the challenges brought about by this complex evolution and thus be able to better provide for new reading and writing practices.
With this in mind, we invited specialists from various disciplines to participate in several round tables and give their philosophical, economic, scientific and pedagogical viewpoints. We also asked artists to address these issues from a sensitive and creative perspective and, finally, we initiated sociological and neuro-cognitive studies to look at these new realities with the highest degree of precision.

We have worked according to the following objectives:
– To approach the issues raised in an innovative fashion in order to come up with solutions from the field that can be adopted by the different establishments concerned.
– To create synergy between the European partners in order to develop a joint driving force.
– To study new reading and writing practices with different target audiences and notably with young people and, through high school exchanges, allow them to participate in the project as European citizens.

Our cooperation took several forms
Firstly, professional exchanges between three sectors dedicated to books: Mediatem – a network of 15 media libraries in France, Lesezentrum Steiermark in Austria and the Belgium-based Maison du Livre (House of Books) association. Communication between the different partners made it possible to build hitherto inexistent links.
Secondly, creative exchange programs between four high schools: two French, one Polish and one Romanian. In order for young people to take part in the digital revolution as acting citizens, we launched several projects enabling them
to ponder their education and become familiar with the fundamental skills associated
to reading and writing in both traditional and multimedia formats.
Initiatives
1. Development of a website, a webdoc, 4 exhibitions and several artistic workshops.
2. 4 key periods consisting of round tables, high-school pupil debates, workshops
and artistic residencies.
3. 1 neuro-cognitive experiment and 1 sociological study.
4. 1 teaching kit.
5. 1 white paper.
6. Circulation of the Scripta Numerica mobile exhibition around each partner country in order to disseminate its contents and created objects.

Methodology
We chose to base the project on a cooperation-centered approach organized around constant distance communication between the partners via the
basecamp tool and 7 transnational meetings dedicated to the exchange of information and experience as well as the scheduling of collaborative peer production per phase. Confluences and Europe took charge of managing the methodological tools and any interpersonal issues.

White paper
At the end two years of shared and assessed multi-field research, we are able to set forth a forward-looking perspective of the expectations of the different target audiences, notably that of the younger generation, with regard to education and media libraries; the “Third Place”. This field of action has now developed into a sustainable platform for exchange between European partners who became acquainted and worked together during this project. We do not claim to have the answers to all the questions related to digital technology but we have gathered together different perspectives, laid out new expertise and, by taking both formal and informal approaches, we have been able to develop acquisition tools. Insofar as the meetings and exchanges concerning common issues have led to the opening up fields of investigation, this partnership has proved to be deeply significant.

The project team :
The town of Saint-Raphaël- project coordinator.
Les Ailes du Vent Association, France
MALTAE Association, France
La Maison du Livre, Brussels, Belgium,
Lesezentrum, Graz literacy Center in Austria
Pelplin high school in Poland
the Golf-Hôtel vocational school Hyères, France
Petru Rares high school from Piatra Neamt in Romania
Saint-Exupéry High school in Saint Raphaël, France
Confluences & Europe, France

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299630,3 Eur

Project Coordinator

Mairie de Saint-Raphaël & Country: FR

Project Partners

• Lesezentrum Steiermark
• Lycée Saint-Exupéry
• Lycée Professionnel Golf Hôtel
• Colegiul National Petru Rares, Piatra Neamt
• MEMOIRE A LIRE TERRITOIRE A L’ECOUTE
• LES AILES DU VENT
• La Maison du Livre