Immer, Booksa and The Book Company announce European project and funding

BRAGA, PORTUGAL – Today, Immer and two partners announce that we’ve received a Creative Europe grant for our project ENTALE: Exploring New Technology to Advance Literature in Europe. For the coming two years, the subsidy will allow us to organize events, generate ideas, present stories in new ways, expand our shared network, spread knowledge, and much more.

Besides book reading technology company Immer, the partners are Booksa, the literary hub from Zagreb, Croatia, and The Book Company, the book festival agency from Lisbon, Portugal that is a part of Penguin Random House.

In total, we’re receiving € 200.000 of funding from Creative Europe’s cooperation projects program, shared among the partners, to realize our goals.

The first ENTALE event took place today, when we presented the project and some of the thinking behind it during the Utopia festival in Braga, Portugal. We were received by an audience of enthusiastic students and other interested people who were asking great questions afterwards, with moderation from professor Catarina Silva from the IPCA Univerity.

During the presentation we outlined the next steps:

• First, in May next year, we’ll go to Zagreb to hold a hackathon where writers, translators, artists, developers and other creatives will work together to generate new ideas for the future of reading;
• After that we’ll return to Braga twice around this time of year to present a book festival app, and to hold a symposium where we’ll share what we learned.

We’re very excited to start this project together and hope that you’ll be along for the ride. Please stay tuned for more details about the hackathon in May.