📋 Tender Overview
The EBB objectives are to:
- promote essayistic writing as a tool for civic engagement and active citizenship;
- strengthen the participants’ critical and creative thinking skills;
- encourage participants to develop their voice through self-reflective writing based on individual experience;
- provide participants with ways of thinking about and addressing the effects of climate change; and
- conduct and disseminate research on the contemporary uses of the essay in democratic societies.
Activities
EBB will conduct the following activities:
- A minimum of 28 essay-writing workshop series, ranging from 3 to 18 hours of contact time each, in Malta, Italy, Belgium, Slovenia and the Netherlands;
- Writing workshops for 280-350 participants, including post-secondary and tertiary students as well as members of the public;
- An intensive Easter School for for 40-100 scholars, writers and postgraduate students;
- Disseminate research on the essay through open source publications.
