ULBS scrie istorie: prima universitate din România cu toate cele trei tipuri de granturi ERC

Ștefan Baghiu, a lecturer at "Lucian Blaga" University in Sibiu, has won a prestigious ERC Starting Grant worth €1.5 million for his project MEELNA. This five-year project will quantitatively study the literary histories of Romania, Poland, Hungary, and Serbia. Baghiu, who has been working at the intersection of literary history and quantitative methods for a decade, aims to create the first comparative database of East European literary production from 1867 to 2020. The project will provide open data sets and a digital atlas of literary production. MEELNA marks the first ERC Starting Grant in Romania for literary studies, highlighting ULBS's growing presence in European research. The project will enhance international collaboration and support the development of research directions at the university.