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What is E-READ?

Evolution of reading in the age of digitisation (E-READ) is Action with goal to improve scientific understanding of the implications of digitization, hence helping individuals, disciplines, societies and sectors across Europe to cope optimally with the effects. E-READ comprises a number of projects and initiatives at different levels and scientific scope. There are several strategic, within-Working Group projects. Read more

Working Groups

Working Group 1

Continuing/skilled (PISA-age) reading International assessments (e.g., PISA 2009, 2012; PIRLS 2011) have underlined that the increasing literacy demands of everyday life demand improvement of the reading skills of all students, not just those in difficulty. Individuals of all ages are increasingly exposed to information in a wide range of digital...

Working Group 2

Developmental aspects of reading Today’s children are steeped in digitally dominated media; this digital exposure is likely to affect deep reading. Deep reading is a complex process that builds on the efficiency of lower level linguistic skills, such as orthographic, phonological, semantic, morphological and syntactic knowledge, to decode and comprehend...

Working Group 3

Experiential and emotional aspects of reading Empirical research shows that literary deep reading, by virtue of its appeal to first-person experience, yields potentially unique cognitive and emotional benefits (enhancing the capacity for empathy, social inference, emotional self-regulation, verbal abilities and intelligence). The increasing use of e-readers and tablets for literary...

Working Group 4

The ergonomics of reading (physiology; haptic & tactile feedback) Reading has usually been considered as a purely cognitive process, only based on visual perception, and not really involving body actions except eye movements and, to a lesser extent, head movements. Yet, reading is a multimodal activity involving other body parts,...

Latest News

E-READ meeting in Lisbon 2017

Next E-READ meeting will be held in Lisbon 2017 from January 23 to 24.

Dear all, Please find E-READ newsletter No. 4 (huge thanks to our newsletter team, Patricia, Justyna and Kersti). With our very best wishes for a Happy Holiday Season and a Joyous New Year, Anne & Adriaan

We are officially launching the fourth call for Short Term Scientific Mission (STMS) proposals with a deadline of January 1st 2017. Please find three files with the relevant documents for the Call for STSM applications and keep in mind that…

The next large E-READ meeting, including MC and all WG meetings, will be held in Lisbon, Portugal from January 23-25, 2017.

(e)motion Cultural Literacy in Europe: Second Biennial Conference, Warsaw 10-12 May 2017, aimed at bringing together new and innovative work in the field of literary and cultural studies.

Call for essays and reviews for an issue on Post-communist Children’s Culture in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe by April 10th, 2017.

Recent E-READ Survey results have just been published!
Check out your suggestions for improvements in communication and work quality.

We are launching the third call for Short Term Scientific Mission (STMS) proposals with a deadline of November 1st 2016.

The fourth meeting of COST Action E-READ will be held in Zadar (Croatia) from September 12th to 14th 2016

An article by Anne Mangen & Adriaan van der Weel presenting the theoretical framework of E-READ has just been published.

E-READ media coverage on goethe.de

eRead Newsletter summer 2017

Books and Screens and the Reading Brain

What is E-READ?

Working Groups

Latest News

E-READ meeting in Lisbon 2017

E-READ newsletter No. 4

Fourth call for STSM

Next E-READ meeting in Lisbon

CFP Conference Cultural Literacy in Europe: (e)motion

CFP: Miscellanea Posttotalitariana Wratislaviensia

E-READ Survey Results

Third call for STSMs

Meeting in Zadar

New article on the theoretical framework of E-READ