University of Évora and Altice install micro-library in the Espírito Santo College

The College of the Holy Spirit of the University of Évora will have a reading booth in operation as a result of a partnership between the Altice Foundation and the University of Évora, under the Healthy University project (USE). The inauguration of the micro-library will take place on May 9th, at 16h30, with the presence of the Dean of UÉ, Ana Costa Freitas, Ana Estelita, Director of the Altice Foundation and the Coordinator of USE, Miguel Elias.

The reading booth is a dynamic project in the scope of the Altice Foundation's Social Responsibility Program. Its objective will be the dynamics established through the exchange of books "Take, donate, read, return" and the interaction with the academic community and also with the external community.

The space and its dynamics are included in the social role of the library, of preservation of knowledge, cultural promotion, especially by supporting the construction of knowledge through the sharing of reading. Just bring a book and take another one, so that the reading has aninformal dynamic, according to the promoters.

The micro libraries operate in old telephone booths that have been refurbished for educational and cultural purposes, thus becoming a point of interaction and cultural dynamization with the readers where they are installed. The project is inspired by a movement that started in the village of Westbury-sub-Mendip, in England, where the residents transformed the phone booths into the smallest libraries in the world. The Altice Foundation began implementing this idea in Portugal in 2013, having already installed about 50 spaces throughout the country.

The Healthy University project at the University of Évora (USE) has been organizing numerous activities since 2016, which have contributed to internalizing the concept of health in the university community from a broad, free and participatory perspective by creating working conditions and promoting the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits by the academic community.