A networking, mobility and training project, Baltic Ring aims to make literature of less-known European languages more available to a wider European audience through: promoting translation and improving the skills of translators; supporting new media technologies in literature and book production; promoting children's and young adults' literature. The project includes five international seminars, an exchange programmeme for professional writers and translators and a web-mediated reception study of young peoples literature. Ongoing research and publications are available on the project website.

http://www.balticring.org

The starting point was a wish to make more use of the Writers House in Jyväskylä and organise a writers; exchange between Finland and Estonia. Successful cooperation in the first Baltic Ring led to the second project, New Perspectives of Cooperation (Sep 2003; Aug 2004). Seminars for translation and new media increased mobility among writers and translators and disseminated developments in electronic text and the possibilities of digital media in writing.