The Research Group Literary Education, Culture and Society (ELCiS) appears within the Department of Language and Literature Education of the University of Valencia. In the group participate professors from various universities of Spain. The director of this research group is the professor Josep Ballester Roca.

The Elcis research group has conducted research on reading, literary, media and linguistic training in multicultural and multilingual contexts at various educational levels in both L1 and L2 and foreign languages. It began when we were granted the research project "Globalization, exclusion and multiculturalism in Children's and Young Adult Literature" (UV-AE-20060713) in 2006. Since then and until now we have worked in different research, cooperation, and innovation projects. A determining factor for the consolidation and expansion not only of research lines, but also of members and collaborators was the award of the project Y+D+Y "Literary Education and Interculturality" of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (EDU 2008-01782/EDUC), National Program of Fundamental Research Marco of the VI National Plan of Scientific Research.

We have been part of other projects such as "Diversity and (in)equality in contemporary Spanish children's and youth literature" (UV-IMV-PRECOMP-13-115502), "Literary images of diversity: citizenship and identity through reading and literary education" (GV 2015-050). Or the center innovation projects "Innovation, Research and Quality in Higher Education: Projects and Proposals in teaching research in the Weeks of Complementary Activities" in different editions or "Work on the impact of the use of interactive whiteboards in the higher education of teachers of Preschool, Primary School and Secondary School". As well as "Comparative study of DLL subjects in the new degrees of Preschool Education" project granted by the University of Sevilla. Projects for Teaching Research (038-A6-2010) with researchers from the universities of Sevilla, Jaén, Granada, Valencia, Barcelona, A Coruña; the project DETERMINANT FACTORS IN THE READING HABITS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION STUDENTS (PR2017-040) granted by the University of Cadiz. Or the cooperation project "Preparation of teacher training agents and institutional teams that allow innovation and improvement in research and teacher training in intercultural bilingual education in the Andean and Caribbean areas" of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (D/030992/10); "Language skills and cultural identity of students of immigrant origin variables of integration in immigration contexts" (APE/2015/004).

We have also been part of the project MEDIATIC COMPETENCIES OF THE CITIZENSHIP IN EMERGING DIGITAL MEDIA (SMARTPHONES AND TABLETS): INNOVATIVE PRACTICES AND EDUCOMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN MULTIPLE CONTEXTS of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. National Program R+D+I Projects (EDU2015-64015-C3-1-R) with 40 researchers from 11 Spanish universities and 8 Latin American and European countries or the project “YOUTUBERS AND INSTAGRAMMERS: MEDIA COMPETITION IN EMERGING PROSUMERS" of the STATE RESEARCH AGENCY - Calls 2018 R&D Projects of KNOWLEDGE GENERATION and R+D+I PROJECTS and RESEARCH CHALLENGES.

Likewise, the Elcis group has organized all kinds of scientific meetings related to our research: among others, the III International Congress of Catalan Literature for Children and Young People (2006); and the International Congress of Literary Education and Society. The teaching of literature to young people (2007); Interdisciplinary Conference on Women's Studies (2009): III Seminars of Teaching Innovation in Superior Education (2014); I and II International Conference Teaching Literature in English for Young Learners (2012) and (2015); XV International Congress of the Spanish Society of Language and Literature Teaching (2014); Seminars of Research, Innovation and Good Practices in Preschool Education (2014), (2015), (2016), (2017) and (2018) or the Seminar of reading, literary and linguistic Education. Research and good practices (2021).

They are currently part, as a group, of the network of excellence of the project RED DE EXCELENCIA EN EDUCACION MEDIÁTICA of the Ministry of Economy, Programa de Acciones de Dinamización Redes de Excelencia I+D (Acción 2016)(EDU2016-81772-REDT) participating entities: 10 IP of R&D 10 Spanish universities.