LIT-UP EU

LIT-UP EU project will leverage authors and publishers skills working with less used languages by creating a strong network to face the big companies market

LIT-UP EU project aims at implementing, vía training, webinars and events around Europe, competitive strategies to increase publisher’s and author’s skills working with less used languages. This 3 year- project will provide strategies and tools to help publishers and authors participating in the project to compete with real opportunities of survival against big languages and players working in their own markets.

A total of 8 partner institutions from across Europe, including Založba Malinc will together provide new ways of liaison by establishing a wide and strong network of publishers and authors in Europe to build commercial relationships and let them meet new literatures, new business models, and new market opportunities that strengthen cooperation between stakeholders and their position in the forthcoming market where big companies are occupying the most marketplace reducing the presence of less used languages literature, small and independent authors and publishers and book fairs.

To leverage less used languages at local, national and European levels, LIT-UP will achieve the objectives explained above by developing a range of activities which includes trainings, book fairs, participation in literary events supporting authors and publishers professionalization and the increase of circulation of works.

LIT-UP contributes directly to the Culture Strand Priorities 2021 from the European call CREA-CULT-2021-COOP-2 — European Cooperation projects (medium-scale) hoping to include less used languages in main markets of Europe as Spain, Italy, France, Germany and United Kingdom and in other smaller markets as the Netherlands, Slovenia and Serbia. Therefore, our project will especially focus on literature in Catalan, Basque, Galician, Serbian, Frisian, Eslovenian and Corsican Language.

The LIT-UP Consortium also includes the following organisations: ASSOCIACIO D’EDITORIALS DEL PAIS VALENCIA (ES), Stichting Algemiene Fryske Underrjocht Kommisje AFÛK (NL), IL LEONE VERDE (IT), UDRUŽENJE KROKODIL (RS), EUSKAL EDITOREEN ELKARTEA (ES) , ACENTOLINE COMUNICACIÓN EDITORA SL (ES) and ZALOŽBA GOGA, ZAVOD ZA ZALOŽNIŠKO IN UMETNIŠKO DEJAVNOST (SI).

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.