The Educational Innovation Group in Humanities at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, working within the Project for Educational Innovation called Espacios y Contextos (Space and Context) is holding, in collaboration with the IATEXT, the First Seminar on Educational Innovation in the Teaching of Spanish and Spanish Literature at Secondary Level on March 18th 2017.

This seminar aims to create a space for exchange between young and veteran teachers of secondary school in order to foster creativity and energy in aspiring secondary school teachers. Both groups are essential to make the most out of the creativity and energy of young people so it can be appropriately executed and channeled, taking into consideration the experience of veteran teachers in the field of secondary education.

The Institute in Text Analysis and Applications (IATEXT), in partnership with the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) and the École Nomal Supérieur (ENS) at the FrenchNational Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), has held the course Introduction to the Management of Digital Humanities Projects. Drawing up a Corpus: from Preparation to Dissemination through Digitalization, Structuring and Document Preservation.

The course was organized by researcher Verónica C. Trujillo-González from the Division of Linguistic Variation and Linguistic Change, and ITEM research engineer Richard Walter. It took place at the IATEXT facilities on January 19th and 20th, and it was given by Richard Walter through videoconference from Paris.