Creative Europe Events at Bologna Children's Book Fair

The Children’s Literature Book Fair will take place in Bologna, Italy from March 31st to April 3rd, 2025. The Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC) of the European Commission and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency with the support of the Creative Europe Desk Italy with the involvement of the Portuguese and the Slovenian Desks will host a panel on Monday, 31st March at 3:30 pm.

The event will focus on Creative Europe projects relating to literature and its transnational circulation, the publishing sector and the entire book chain.

Creative Europe Opportunities for Literature & Publishing, 31st March

Are you a publisher or part of an organisation in the book and publishing sector? The Creative Europe programme offers dedicated funding to support your work. Its mission is to enhance the translation, circulation and linguistic diversity of literary works across Europe and beyond, expand audiences for European literature, and boost the sector’s competitiveness through cooperation and networking between organisations in Europe.

• 3.30pm, Bologna Book Plus Theatre, Hall 29, Mall 1
• Panel: Arnaud Pasquali, European Commission, Directorate-General Education, Youth, Sport and Culture.
• Organised by European Commission (DG Education and Culture), Creative Europe Desks Italy, Portugal, Slovenia

Translators on the Cover, 1st April

On Tuesday, 1st April at 10am dedicated to the great theme of translation and translators, central to the circulation of European literature, with DG EAC presenting the report Translators on the Cover' - you can find it on the Fair official programme.

Creative Europe G-BOOK project, Tuesday 1st April

The project G-BOOK 3 - Audience engagement activities for the social and emotional education of EU teens through gender-positive literature and digital technology is co-funded under the Creative Europe program and implemented by the MeTRa Center (Dept. of Interpretation and Translation, University of Bologna-Forlì). It is a continuation of the G-BOOK and G-BOOK 2 projects. Centre for Children's and Young Adult Literature, School of English at DCU, Dublin is a partner in all 3 projects.

The project builds on the excellent results achieved by the previous projects: G-BOOK, which created the first European bibliography of gender-positive books for children (ages 3-10), and G-BOOK 2, which expanded the research to include the 11-14 age group. The new project aims to fill the latest gap by targeting young readers between the ages of 15 and 18, pursuing the following objectives: to foster the transnational circulation of teen literature that promotes positive gender models; to raise awareness and engage the target audience (15-18 years old) on gender issues through literature, while developing their social, emotional and creative skills through the use of digital technologies and social media.