Libraries of Emotions for Good

Libraries of Emotions for Good project (LOE for Good) is born from the common analysis and commitment of one social organisation Love for Livres, an international NGO Bibliothèques sans Frontières, 5 European Libraries in Poland, Slovenia, Belgium and Lithuania, a European University (Ghent) and a Tunisian library in Sousse. It consists in an innovative program of empowerment of a network of European pioneer libraries, from Ukraine to the East of Europe, from the West of Europe to Tunisia through building capabilities, digital and live development of a ground-breaking approach.

This approach is based on cognitive sciences and reading called bibliotherapy as well as of an in-depth research-action to assess the impact of reading and reading emotions for inclusion, mental health, as well as societal resilience. It addresses current European challenges such as the mental health crisis, the war in Ukraine and the rise of social inequalities to transfer knowledge, soft skills and specific tools to libraries that gather multiple audiences, involve European writers and provide a democratic, welcoming and open space for cultural diversity, civic discussions and social inclusion.

In terms of impact, LOE for Good project aims at:
– training librarians to new approaches and encourage their entrepreneurship spirit and professional development.
– designing the libraries services of tomorrow through the implementation of a bibliotherapy tech care solution for libraries users and for readers complemented by physical device Libraries of Emotions and by bibliotherapy sessions.
– conducting the first evidence-based research of this kind in Europe to factualize the effects of bibliotherapy and to explore its relevance and benefits at the crossroads between Culture and Health in the framework of public policies.

Multicultural, transformative and creative, the LOE for Good project highlights the power of books for a better life and for a better world.

(Vir: F&TOP)

Kranj City Library

(Partner)

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Love for Livres (leader)

France (EU)
Biblioteka Miejska w Łodzi (partner)

Poland (EU)
Bibliothèques Sans Frontières association (partner)

France (EU)
Kauno miesto savivaldybes Vinco Kudirkos viesoji biblioteka (partner)

Lithuania (EU)
Miejska Biblioteka Publiczna im. Zofii Urbanowskiej w Koninie (partner)

Poland (EU)
Ministre de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (partner)

France (EU)
Stad Gent (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Universiteit Gent (partner)

Belgium (EU)

Funded projects

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

Animation Festival Network