eMULTIPOETRY
eMULTIPOETRY is a Grundtvig Multilateral project funded through the European Union. The project started in October 2008 and will be officially completed in September 2010.
The project attempts to inspire Europeans towards extending their language skills by way of international communication and exchange with application of innovative multimedia and ICT methodology. The authors of the project assume that, in the modern society, poetry has lost some of its specific force and vigor that carried humanity across civilization.
The eMULTIPOETRY project applies an innovative form that multimedia with application of Internet offers for introducing multilingual poetry in the way that could widely appeal to young people in Europe. The outcomes will offer ICT tools ready to be used by European schools based on an innovative educational method developed by international team of language experts.
The partnership is very large and consists of partners from Poland (coordinator), France, Spain, Germany, Italy and Greece and many associated partners, mainly Universities and Libraries, from Poland, Israel, Austria, Slovakia, Iceland, Turkey, Ukraine, Scotland, Latvia and UK. Also broadcasting institutions are involved: Polish National Television in Krakow, ORF Vienna TV, VRT Televisieomroep Brussels, Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, Ceska Televize, Lithuanian Television.
The main outcome of the project is a European digital library of poems with collection of modern poetry built up on poems created as a result of an international cooperation as well as using resources of European libraries and visual archives supplied by cooperating television stations. The digital library is already available on the project’s web site www.emultipoetry.eu.
Moreover, Poetry Festivals will be organized in various European cities, with events like projection of poems on video walls and buildings and other initiatives, seminars and happenings.