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Results of the Competition “Bridging Culture and Audiovisual Content through Digital”
The results of the inter-sector competition call “Bridging Culture and Audiovisual Content through Digital”, published in January of the current year, have been published. Eight projects are supported with the total of 3,176,333.97 Euros, and the participants of one of them, “MUSE.ar” project led by the organisation Pro Progresione Kulturalis from Hungary, include UPT Lepenski Vir from Donji Milanovac. We are congratulating all institutions and organisations supported within this competition.
The list of support projects and organisations can be downloaded here.
Prior to establishing the Laboratory for Creative Innovation within the next cycle of the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027, European Commission initiated the pilot call “Bridging Culture and Audiovisual Content through Digital” to support cross-border, inter-sector activities. The aim of the competition was to support projects offering new forms of creativity by mixing different field of cultural and audiovisual professions, with the use of innovative inter-sectoral approaches and tools to achieve easier access, distribution and promotion of all field of culture and creativity, including cultural heritage.
When you cross the border ‒ challenges of growing up in a female body through European female literature
Arete Publishing House
Maximum grant awarded: 59,294.05 €
Adolescence is a liminal period of crossing from childhood into adulthood and because of this it carries numerous challenges. For girls it represents an especially sensitive topic of perception and acceptance of one’s own body within socially acceptable norms, peer requests and the media creating the image of an ideal body. Body-image still leads to constructing the self-image and it often leads to unhappiness, fears and anxiety. The result is crossing the border towards behaviours and psychological states that can be life threatening. Through eight titles exactly dealing with topics of this kind of liminal behaviours, the idea of this project is to bring literature from eight European countries closer to young girls. These novels offer different female characters in adolescence having specific problems on the personal level through which their relationship with themselves is constructed, and further through it the relationship with the outside world.
These are the topics requiring wider engagement, debate and communication and this is why an equally important part of the project is crossing the border of common promotional methods which would be achieved through performative approach to promotion of all titles through applied theatre and work with psychologists and pedagogues, and also cultural and theatre workers.
Do You Speak Feminine? – Literature as a Way of Women’s Empowerment
Kontrast izdavaštvo
Maximum grant awareded: 59,951.57 €
Project “Do You Speak Feminine? – Literature as a Way of Women’s Empowerment” gathers 7 books written by female authors in 7 different languages. Focus is on significant female authors from the beginning of XX century to the present day. Female authors have been underrepresented for far too long. Today, women’s voice is much stronger, as authors as well as readers, and they make healthy majority of literary industry. However, there is still a lot to be done for female empowerment, and this project tends to gather women from all fields of expertise: translators, editors, proofreaders, designers, managers etc. Our main task is to deliver quality translation, publication, promotion and dissemination of selected works of high literary quality: French writer Sophie Daull (Au Grand Lavoir) and Finnish novelist Piia Leino (Taivas) are winners of EUPL, Mercè Rodoreda is considered the most important Catalan novelist of the post-war period and La mort i la primavera as her magnum opus. Cora Sandel was Norwegian pioneer in female emancipation with her Albertetrilogien. Anja Golob is acclaimed and award-winning Slovenian poet. Her poetry collection Vesa v zgibi was awarded with Jenko Poetry Prize by Slovenian Writers Association. Ingeborg Bachmann is one of the most authentic literary voices of her time and her poetry collection Ausgewählte Gedichte is a unique philosophical meditation on the questions of gender, homeland and borders. Also, she was in the vanguard of Austrian women writers who strived for emancipation. Dorota Masłowska, author of poetry collection Inni ludzie is the leading female voice of contemporary Polish literary scene. She received most prestigious literary awards in Poland: NIKE and Paszport Polityki. Female authors are still under-promoted in Serbia, and this project is part of Kontrast’s tendency to change that. It is expected to bring more attention to important questions of female empowerment in region, while having huge impact on our readership.
The Arc of Time
ProPolis Publishing House
Maximum grant awarded: 52,643.47 €
The project, The Arc of Time, title building on title of one of our books, aims at supporting cultural and linguistic diversity by publishing 9 books from lesser used languages – Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Poland, Slovenia and books from Belgium and Germany.
The selected books and authors are awarded with prestigious literary awards.
Their works promote European values, openness, diversity, ecology, humanism, heritage and innovation. They are innovative in their treatment of topics, roles of main and side characters, relying on, and diverging from literary traditions and conventions, storytelling techniques and approach to language. With their quality, they contribute to popularisation of reading to young public.
Our selection of lesser genre is for a broad age-range, from books for pre-schoolers to books for young independent readers to books for adolescents and young adults. The books within this scope vary in genres (or mix genres). There are playful explorations of fairy tales questioning stereotypes, adventures, war stories, detective mysteries, time travel, voyages and all elements making reading joyful, engaging and exciting. They gently teach young readers about values, without being openly didactic.
