ArgLab is a Partner in a Major European Project (Horizon 2020)

ArgLab researchers Fabrizio Macagno and Chrysi Rapanta are the national PIs of a project on that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

DIALLS answers the Horizon 2020 call ‘Understanding Europe – promoting the European Public and Cultural Space’ under the topic of Cultural Literacy of Young Generations in Europe (specifically promoting cultural literacy through formal education). DIALLS is a three-year project starting in June 2018. It centralizes co-constructive dialogue as a main cultural literacy value, with the aim of promoting tolerance, inclusion and empathy. It moves beyond a concept of cultural literacy as being about knowledge of culture (through exploration of literature and art for example) into a consideration of the disposition to explore different interpretations of it. It innovates by also viewing cultural literacy as enabled by the response to and creation of cultural resources, thus focusing on young people as the users and producers of culture.

The DIALLS consortium comprises eight universities from across Europe and one in Israel which have close networks of partnership schools (pre-primary, primary and secondary) in a range of urban and rural contexts.  

Consortium Leader: Dr. Fiona Maine, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University, UK.

Duration: 2018 – 2021

Total budget of the project: 4,373,308 Euros

Budget for the Lisbon team: 489,415.00 Euros

website: www.dialls2020.eu