Budapest included in Ulysses Network Project EU programme

The city has been awarded 1.78 million euros and was one of eighteen European cities selected for participation in the Ulysses Network Project, the statement said.

Ulysses, considered one of the most important works of modernist literature, was published 100 years ago and it chronicles the events of one day, on June 16, 1904. The EU Creative Europe Fund announced its decision about supported cities on this date, also known as Bloomsday, after the novel’s protagonist Leopold Bloom who born in Hungary according to the novel’s story.

The project will follow the novel’s eighteen episodes in chronological order, it will be opened in September this year and concluded in June 2024. One of eighteen topics have been selected for each city, with Budapest to focus on the role of local communities in crisis-ridden Europe.