Short Forms Beyond Borders

The relevance of short forms is becoming more and more visible in today's society. Brevity is becoming a way of doing things, a question of time and style, indeed of thinking (as in Twitter). Examples of short forms include short videos, text messages, short stories, Instagram stories, sound fragments, television series, short speeches, sales pitches, news briefs, slogans etc.

SFBB partners are specialists of short forms from six European universities:

•  University of Angers (coordinator),
•  National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of French Language and Literature, Greece,
•  University of Szeged, Department of English studies, Hungary,
•  University of Santiago de Compostela, Faculty of Philology, Spain, 
•  Justus-Liebig, English and American Literature, Culture and Media Studies, Germany,
•  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium,
• Baludik (Nantes, France, a private company).

It will work together to develop short forms as tools and objects of pedagogical innovation, cultural and social mediation in Europe.

SFBB is a Strategic Partnerships project, part of the Erasmus+ programme, key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. The project will take place over a period of 24 months.

Professors Cécile Meynard, Michelle Ryan-Sautour, Emmanuel Vernadakis (CIRPALL Research Centre) are in charge of this project at the University of Angers.