CROWD (Creating New Ways of Dissemination) is a joint-venture project of literary activists from Finland, Cyprus, Austria and Germany that provides ideas, stimulus and inspiration and that also aims to support the capacity of European writers and literary activists to operate transnationally and internationally. CROWD enables the audience to keep up with current developments in contemporary European literature and the dissemination of literature by using digital technology. The idea is to offer up-to-date access to the diversity of literary products in the whole of Europe and work towards building contacts and exchanges among the many small, separate reading markets. What CROWD means by the term ‘literary activist‘ is all the event organisers and promoters, writers, publishers and translators who work in the knowledge that literary products and their presentation can only reach a larger audience (younger people, readers in rural areas) if they are regarded as communication offerings.We want to enable new routes for contemporary literature which/to promote the mobility of the cultural and creative players of Europe. We want to wake Europe up from its deep slumber to set free cultural resources and via personal encounters and digital interaction engage European audiences to participate actively. The joint-venture project CROWD is intended to offer European literary activists specific practical assistance in the transnational circulation of literary texts and translations via new ways of presenting, disseminating and distributing literature.CROWD subordinate projects (2014-2016)AGORA – website and app (full operation Spring 2016)Conference in Berlin, Germany (Autumn 2014)OMNIBUS reading and discussion trip from Finland to Cyprus (120 writers, more than a dozen countries, May to August 2016)Seeking out more literary activists, building up the network’s online presence (to mid-2015)European festival for experimental literature in Graz, Austria (2016)