The Ghent team (led by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pieters) will organise a series of writing workshops in secondary schools (in tandem with and supported by the organisation Talenplatform) and in the University and the School of Arts. At the occasion of the meeting of the project board in September 2024, it will also host a public event on the essay, which will serve as an occasion to publicise more broadly the project’s aims.The writing workshops at university level will also involve the publication (in Dutch) of a number of essays produced by participants in the workshop. These will be reviewed by a number of people active in the literary field (working at publishing houses or as editorial members of literary and cultural journals).
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