Reading in Europe today – Reading and Writing Literary Texts in the Age of Digital Humanities Erasmus Project

Project Title

Reading in Europe today – Reading and Writing Literary Texts in the Age of Digital Humanities

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 for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

At the beginning of the project, we realized that the world is rushing towards digitalization, therefore we wanted to popularize the pleasure and utility of reading, the lingual forms and interpretation of images, and reading as a life experience. At the end of the project, the whole world turned upside down, and the need of digital platforms and applications as forms of entertainment, education tool and assistance for your job has grown more than ever.
As the main goal of the project, the partnership managed to organize 3 intensive seminars and 3 workshops, the last two events in a hybrid way in order to adapt to the current situation. These events as a way of dissemination raised awareness of methods among the players of the book industry and education, as well as prepared the theory and the corpus of our Intellectual Output, called Rich Annotator System (RAS).
Thus, RAS has been developed, and as originally planned, it links the texts of commentary literature to some major literary texts being commented upon, and form direct hyperlinks from the coments to the quoted text semi automatically, and by automatically generating inverse links, enabling a new form of reading of the main text, where each commentary is immediately visible.
The participants of the academic events provided the studies, which served as the corpus of the platform, as well as the events were means of dissemination, during which we primarily promoted the platform among the professors and students participating in and bneing presented in the LTT events. However, since these events were also open for the public, RAS was disseminated to education experts, translators, young readers and university students, as future teachers and researchers.
The impact of the project can be traced in academic education and later in high school education, since we train high school teachers. The promotion and the functioning of the Intellectual Output will continue, since the long-term relation among partners, and their commitment to the project guarantees the quality and after-life of the platform.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 265639,5 Eur

Project Coordinator

PAZMANY PETER KATOLIKUS EGYETEM & Country: HU

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
• UNIVERSITE DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE
• UNIVERSITE DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE
• UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA
• UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
• UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
• UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO