G-BOOK 3

It is widely demonstrated that youth literature is crucial in the development of kids’ gender identity and emotional and mental health, meaning that gender stereotypes in literature can deeply impact teen’s perceptions of what society considers to be gender-appropriate behaviors and representations, restraining their freedom to express themselves.

Moving from the persisting limited awareness in contemporary societies of the importance of positive gender education in kids’ identity development, and the lack of coordinated/systemic experiences at a EU level to promote gender-positive literature for teen with their active involvement, G-BOOK 3 builds on the very successful results of previous G-BOOK, focused on the creation of the 1st EU gender-positive bibliography for children (age 3-10), and G-BOOK 2, which expanded it (range 11-14), to address the need to tackle the last, missing 15-18-year-old segment of young readers, pursuing the following objectives:

– fostering the transnational circulation of gender-positive teens’ literature at a EU level
– raise awareness and engage the TG (15-18 yo) on gender-related topics through literature, while developing their social/emotional & creative skills using digital technology & social media.

These objectives will be achieved through a set of tailored activities:

-Finalization of the 1st EU Bibliography of gender-positive kids’ literature with works for 15-18 yo
-Linguistic extension of the bibliography by including Finnish, Portuguese and Czech
-Raising awareness & audience engagement activities in high schools, implementing a 2-year curricular path involving 10 schools from PPs countries, as well as on social media to reach the wider audience of EU teen readers:
-10 social and emotional workshops in high schools on gender-related themes
-10 co-creation workshops in high schools for the realization of the digital contents
-1 Audience Engagement Campaign carried out on social media at transnational and PPs’ local level

(Vir: F&TOP)

Ljubljana City Library

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (leader)

Italy (EU)
Biblioteca Lúcio Craveiro da Silva (partner)

Portugal (EU)
Dublin City University (partner)

Ireland (EU)
Gender Studies, o.p.s. (partner)

Czech Republic (EU)
Lastenkirjainstituutin kannatusyhdistys ry (partner)

Finland (EU)
Observatori per te Drejtat e Femijeve dhe te Rinjve (partner)

Albania
Regionalna Narodna Biblioteka Petko P. Slaveykov (partner)

Bulgaria (EU)
Universidad de Vigo (partner)

Spain (EU)
Universität zu Köln (partner)

Germany (EU)
Université Paris 13 (partner)

France (EU)

Funded projects

WONDERCUT – Collaboratively Exploring the Public Value of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Next Level Cultural Experiences

Heroes Unleashed: Implementing a Sensory Reading Program in European Public Libraries

DATAS – The Data and the Sovereign

TALKING HEADS – Conversation with the art of the past

Libraries of Emotions for Good

GreenHeritage – Nurturing a sustainable future in the gardens of time

G-BOOK 3

PAGE: a Project for Advancing coGnitivE accessibility in publishing

DIGITAL on STAGE – Unleashing the Performing Arts Experience through Digital Innovation

OASis – Open Art Spaces in Synergy

Transport: Sustainable puppet co-creations for European young audiences

Danube Dance Alliance for Development of Contemporary Dance Scene in the Danube Region

Mind the GAP

Beletrina Digital

WOMEN interACT - participatory theatre against the double exclusion of women

TECH(ing) TALES WITH A TWIST for the children of the present

Drama of Smaller European Languages

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning