Thanks to the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership action, the LEA! group has obtained a grant to carry on for three years its project on reading strategies and publishing of literary and critical texts. The dossier was filed by Pázmány Péter Catholic University of Budapest. During the three years of the project development, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Luxembourgish, Belgian and Hungarian researchers from 13 European universities, members of the LEA! group, will try to find out what new methods can be applied to popularize reading, so indispensable to the enrichment of life experiences in our universe of communication flooded with images.

Partners:

UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE-ARDENNE
UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE
UNIVERSITAT DE VALENCIA
UNIVERSIDAD DE CADIZ
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS-EST-CRÉTEIL
MAGYAR TUDOMÁNYOS AKADÉMIA SZÁMITÁSTECHNIKAI ÉS AUTOMATIZÁLÁSI KUTATÓINTÉZET
UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN
UNIVERSITÉ D’AIX MARSEILLE
UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE

The RAS software (Rich Annotator System ©), of the Institute of Computer Science of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, makes possible the digital edition of texts, proposing a reading with several layers, directed readings, enriched readings (Rich Reading ©).

With this application it is possible to produce editions that, on one hand, present in dialogue the literary works, the analysis and the studies which speak about it, on the other hand, offer directed readings of the literary texts themselves. The project aims to develop reading methods that take into account new digital uses to help acquire skills through active reading. These are important in social activities, in relational situations, in teamwork, in language learning, in communication, and even in solving problems encountered on a daily basis. Reading, particularly of literature, is based on various technologies of sharing, and writing is a prerequisite. Reading is a process of active and creative understanding, a cognitive operation that necessarily establishes a relationship of mutuality and cooperation.

During the course of the project, the seminars and the workshops, the professors-researchers and the doctoral students gather the corpus which will give body, thanks to the software RAS, to the intellectual product.