Reading for Enjoyment, Achievement and Development of yOuNg people
Writing West Midlands
Cooperation Projects
England
2017
Total project grant (euros)
2,000,000
Programme
Creative Europe
Sub-programme
Culture
Call number
EACEA 45/2016
Project date
1 Jun 2017 - 31 May 2021
Number of partners in project
7
Lead organisation
Rogaland Fylkeskommune, Norway
Partners
Comitato Organizzatore Del Festival Internazionale Della Letteratura In Mantova, Italy
Agrupamento De Escolas Carlos Gargate, Portugal
West Cork Music Ltd, Ireland
Skudeneshavn Internasjonale Litteratur Og Kultur Festival (SILK), Norway
Associacio Tantagora Serveis Culturals, Spain
Writing West Midlands Ltd, UK
READ ON's challenge is to reignite the passion for reading among young people. To create and make way for a new generation of readers to be developed through a series of activities implemented through the partnership of seven cultural organizations from 6 EU countries. The project will chose as main focal points schools, literature festivals, libraries, informal reading groups, diverse web solutions, to ensure young people meet books & literature in various situations.
READ ON's aim is to turn 12-18 year old youths into active readers of novels, short stories, poems, graphic novels etc. We will also motivate them to participate in creative writing; thus training them to create & write fiction, stories & essays & develop graphic novels about given themes. Through our project we will help them publish & reach audiences, and thereby, hopefully, develop future EU writers.
READ ON will generate young audiences who can be reached & developed by the partnership through the project's cultural activities programme – EU blurandevù, fan fiction lab, anthology lab, passports, my life in strips, European illustration network – over 48 months. READ ON will also train teachers, librarians, children's entertainers & cultural professionals and give them very useful practice & experience within literature promotion, reading approaches etc. We will also disseminate results among a greater number of professionals & foster sustainability of project methods & tools after the project’s end - for instance through updating the website with links to our literature festivals.



