General description:  

Tales for Europe's Youth aims to bring four Bulgarian novels to readers across Europe. The novels have been chosen for their broad outlook, cultural representativeness<relevance?> and literary merits. 

1. European added value
- All books are aimed at a young audience – Europe's future. The Coin was written by high school students, embodying their concerns and dreams, and thus directly speaking to the authors’ peers.
- All books deal with common European values, such as freedom from oppression, environmental awareness, respect for and deeper appreciation of diversity.
- All books will be printed on 100% recycled paper, adopting a sustainable, responsible attitude toward Earth’s resources.

2. Relevance to the specific objectives of the Programme
A) Encouraging the transnational circulation of artistic and cultural works and products
- Our close contacts with European publishers and readers (particularly reinforced after the European SF Convention in Bulgaria in 2004) guarantee that the translated books will reach a wide audience; please see attached Letters of Support. We've already started the dissemination of summaries and translated extracts, via email and online forums, and are setting up a dedicated web site, in English and German.
- We also envisage a lively interaction with European cultural institutions. Our Project Manager is in touch with other UWC alumni across Europe, most of them active in the cultural sphere and willing to promote the project.
B) Encouraging intercultural dialogue
- All books contain traditional Bulgarian values and draw inspiration from Bulgarian mythology and folklore, history and contemporary culture, geography and regional specifics (e.g. the Kazanlak youth vernacular in The Coin). This makes them a lively means of introducing Bulgaria to all of Europe.
- Our translation teams consist of at least one native speaker of the target languages and one Bulgarian, and will rely on the expert aid of various consultants: an opportunity for a literary and cultural dialogue.

3. Excellence of proposed translation activities
- All books have high literary merit, demonstrating the richness and expressiveness of the Bulgarian language to their fullest, as the enclosed articles testify.
- Correspondingly, our translation teams have been chosen for their literary skills and will to render the target texts as dynamic and poignant as the originals.
- Since 1993, InfoDAR has pursued a policy of diversity and excellence in its publishing activities, as the list of authors published |and awards received| demonstrates.

4. Expected level of outputs
- Each book will be released in a print run of 10,000 copies, corresponding to the approximate combined average in German-speaking EU countries (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and surpassing the combined average in English-speaking countries (the UK and the Republic of Ireland). As pointed out in 2A), our broad network of contacts will guarantee the distribution of the books.

5. Communication and promotion of activities
- Our communication plan (attached) aims at a high level of visibility via paper and electronic publications in selected literary and general cultural venues, active interaction with readers via the Internet, a dynamic web site detailing the stages of the project and offering extracts from the translations, the exchange of promotional banners, distribution of promotional materials
- Any materials issued as part of the project will clearly state EU's contribution to the project publications.