The "Beyond Text" international project meets in Vic and Barcelona

The twenty-five researchers involved in the "Beyond Text" Erasmus Plus project are holding an intensive first meeting at the UVic and in Barcelona from 9 to 19 May. The CODI research group led by the lecturer Eva Marichalar is a strategic part of this project led by the University of Chester, which aims to design and implement a higher training module with an arts-based research methodology, in both the field of research and in the field of professional practice.

For ten days, the researchers from the United Kingdom (University of Chester), Finland (LUT and RAG), Estonia (University of Tartu), Palestine (Bethlehem University and Alrowwad Cultural and Theatre Society) and Catalonia (UVic and La Nave Va) will meet to learn, share and exchange experiences on Research Based on the Arts (IBA) and the methodological aspects of the arts in any specialist field. The presentation ceremony took place this afternoon and was attended by the ‎Vicerector of Research and Knowledge Transfer, Jordi Villà, and the Dean of the Faculty of Education, Translation and Humanities, Eduard Ramírez.

The conclusions of the meeting will be presented on 19 May at a public event at the Fàbrica de Creació Fabra i Coats in Barcelona, where a range of activities and workshops related to the research and practice of the arts will also be presented.

The "Beyond text" programme will run for three years and will be structured in different phases involving international meetings, 10-day conventions at the project's partner universities, publications and attendance at conferences. This first meeting in Vic and Barcelona will lay the foundations of what will eventually be the pilot programme of this training module. The next meeting will take place in the United Kingdom in 2018, where the definitive programme of the module and the last meeting will be specified, kicking off the last phase of the project, which will take place in Finland in 2019, where the module will be presented in e-book format. From that point on, the module can be taught at the universities wishing to do so.