Aim of the project

The idea of the project comes from the necessity to give a meaningful context for writing in the digital era, in order to promote this skill and raise awareness of its importance, while using the interests and talents that students have and channel them towards the school context. Writing is a very important means of communication but its use is usually arbitrary and random. During the project we will explore student’s use of the digital media in terms of reading and writing in order to adapt teaching practices to trends, and and explore digital and online tools for creating, translating, editing, publishing and enjoying texts, and thus developing a critical eye towards written products and materials. The international cooperation will provide context, motivation, audience and the necessity to use foreign languages and making translations. The project will rely on the students’ abilities and give them the chance to learn to proofread, translate, edit and publish using online tools for the purpose. The participants location is also significant: since it is a Central and Eastern European cooperation, it will bring these institutions closer together and will provide an opportunity to become familiar with each-other’s culture and literature. Since this region of Europe shares a fairly similar cultural and historical background, we will promote the translating and reading of outstanding national writers and poets, earlier and contemporary, and thus allow students and teachers to strengthen their sense of belonging. Furthermore, from the viewpoint of teachers, on the one hand they will have the possibility to share their existing good practices for writing, moreover they will cooperate with students in a purposeful way by being facilitators and just assisting the publication process, and thus give students more autonomy. The idea is to create an environment that resembles to a workplace, where teachers moderate and assist the students’ work, but the students also rely on each-others’ experiences and knowledge to complete specific tasks on the area of proofreading, translation, edition and publication. In the meantime, the teachers will be responsible for the writing clubs that will provide the materials for publication. On a weekly basis students can go to writing workshops where they can present their writings, comment on each-others’ works and learn strategies for perfecting their skills. The writings created during these sessions will be submitted for the editors and translators who will prepare the writings for publication. The project enhances the awareness of the importance of writing, allow students to perfect their skills and motivate talented students to write for an international audience, while for others it will be a chance to gain experience and knowledge that will be useful during their academic and professional careers as well.