An Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) project financed with a Marie Curie Fellowship is currently participating in a European Union-wide dissemination contest. The contest seeks to show the social impact of research financed by the EU.

The ICS is competing with a video about ORFOCREA, the research developed by the Russian researcher Sarali Gintsburg within the Public Discourse project. The video is available on the YouTube list of research and innovation initiatives supported by the EU.

The project coordinator whose video receives the most “likes” before April 16, 2018 will receive an all expenses paid trip to the EuroScience Open Forum conference, the largest academic meeting in Europe, which will be held in Toulouse (France) in July 2018.

ORFORCREA investigates the cognitive basis of creativity in verbal art, examining its interaction with both oral tradition and literacy. It draws from medieval Arab poetry, French epic songs, oral epic of the former Yugoslavia collected between the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century by Parry & Lord, among others, and the living oral tradition of the Jbalain Morocco.