Summary:

The aim of this project is to create an awareness of the mutual roots in European literature and culture. We want to find out which typical topics and cross currents we can find in European literature from the Middle ages till today. We want to find out how a text is produced and then re-produced through translation, adaption or by being transferred to a different medium in a different culture. Our objective is two-fold: we want to work together in exploring the idea of cross-currents in national European literatures and then as a result of the project construct some ideas for a module in each school for the teaching of literature classes.
We chose literature as we think it can mirror the grandeur of the European project and make it possible to understand what the idea of "feeling European" is all about. By tracing connections between national cultures we hope to show that no country can think of her culture as independent or self-sufficient.
To achieve these objectives the following activities shall be carried out. As a first step each school will draw an interactive timeline starting from the Middle Ages and will then add crucial points of its national as well as European history. As a next step each nation will choose a selection of famous national writers and present them to the other nations (biography, works, famous quotes in original and translation). During the two years we will thus create an overview of national literature through different ages, paying also attention to those not so well known Europeans which contributed to build our present identity.
At the end we will have a creative writing competion on  a European topic . The best stories will be translated and presented in both languages (original and translation) and published in E-zine.