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Medea Awards 2009: you can submit your proposals until 30 September 2009

Medea annual awards, funded under KA4 of the Lifelong Learning Programme, aims at encouraging innovation and good practice in the use of media in education.

 

Conference "Creativity and Innovation - Best practices from European Union programmes"
02-03 March 2009 - Brussels

The Commission is organising a major European conference on creativity and innovation on 2 and 3 March 2009 in Brussels. The event will explore and identify examples of best practice among projects that have received funding through several European Union programmes and funds. It will be accompanied by a special exhibition showing the results of 20 star projects from around Europe that are good examples of the EU contribution, highlighted by the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009.

The conference will examine creativity and innovation from different perspectives by presenting concrete examples of EU involvement in creativity and innovation. It will also analyse the most appropriate ways to ensure that these examples will be followed and multiplied, making the European Year a catalyst to a long-lasting, enduring process.

The conference aims to showcase good practices of projects which have been funded through the Socrates Programme (Comenius, Erasmus, Grundtvig, etc.), Leonardo da Vinci, Youth, Citizenship and Culture programmes, as well as from the Media programme, the Sixth Framework Programme (research) and the Structural Funds.

Examples of best practice will be presented and discussed with key actors from the fields of education, training, entrepreneurship, culture, citizenship, youth, regional policy, etc. Discussion will take place in plenary sessions and in workshops in order to encourage real exchange and provide a platform for dialogue between policy makers and project promoters.

An exhibition of 20 examples of best practice supported by the EU programmes will be organised in parallel, as a source of inspiration for other projects to be developed during the Year and beyond. In total 35 projects were chosen, by a panel of 10 independent experts out of more than 100 proposals.

EVEThe conference will include the official launch of EVE, the electronic platform allowing beneficiaries of projects financed by the Directorate-General for Education and Culture to disseminate and exploit the results of their projects Europe wide.

 

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newsDissemination of language products - DissMark II Conference: final report available online

DissMark II – Dissemination, Marketing and Networking Conference & Project Fair for Socrates Project Coordinators and Partners was held in Tallinn (Estonia), October 11-14, 2007.

The event followed the first Conference held in Iasi (Romania) in 2006 and was supported by the European Commission in the framework of the Socrates Accompanying Measures. It was promoted by International House Tallinn in co-operation with three partners from Romania and Lithuania.

Around 80 practitioners in the field of language learning from different European countries took part in the event with the possibility to showcase the results of their projects, to exchange experiences and best practices and to establish new networks and co-operations. European Commission staff and other professionals offered training on dissemination and promotion of results and presented the latest developments at European level about multilingualism policy.

A compendium of all the projects' results presented during DissMark II together with the conference final report are now available on theConference website. This survival kit represents a useful reference document for professionals, project promoters, researchers, teachers and other stakeholders on issues linked to the promotion of language products.

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newsEight projects were awarded by the European Commission during the eTwinning Conference 2008 held in Bucharest on 14-16 March

eTwinning is an EU initiative to encourage schools to network with each other over the internet and is now part of the Comenius action within the Lifelong Learning Programme. Over 400 participants attended the eTwinning conference in Bucharest on 14-16 March 2008, during which the European Commission handed out prizes to eight outstanding eTwinning school projects from the 2006-2007 school year.

Over 400 projects were assessed, based on their pedagogical innovation and curricular integration, collaboration and communication between partner schools, creativity use of ICT beyond emails, sustainability and transferability, results and benefits.

The top eight finalists came from 26 schools from 17 countries (Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom).

Winners own to 4 different categories:

  1. Winner : Age 4-10
    My town, your town. Our lives in a calendar (UK, ES), which aimed at making pupils know each other and thus examining the similarities between culture, significant dates (calendars) and habits in UK and Spain.

    Runner-up : Age 4-10
    Kids H@nd in H@nd(BE, SI, ET, SK, HU, ES, HU), a simple, engaging and creative project, awarded by the jury as it "demonstrates how very young pupils can express themselves and their emotions in a clever visual way without language".
  2. Winner : Age 11-15
    The new Europeans : The two wooden dolls project (SE, DE), which examined the life of migrant children in their new communities using mixed techniques of puppetry, mime and theatre to examine the issues surrounding settling down in a new country.

    Runner-up : Age 11-15
    Aspects of Religion in Europe     (GR, DA, BE), in which pupils have been led to know various religions, examining subjects as temples, holy objects, religious feasts, religious way of life, ideas and values.
     
  3. Winner : Age 16-19
    Planete @dos (BE, IT, FR), through which students discovered that their common roots are twinned through the history, the traditions and the life of people living on the coasts of the Mediterranean; young people creatively expressed their opinions in a rich and innovative variety of media including cartoon, blogging and podcasts.

    Runner-up : Age 16-19
    Facciamoci noi lezione !     (IT, DE), which promoted a good use of modern technologies, fighting against who abuses of internet putting in a disadvantage other people; students used blogs and videos to share their opinions on issues such as Cyberbullying.
     
  4. Winner : Science and Maths
    Fizika – svarbi ir jdomi (LT, PL), through which students understood how the law of physics rule everyday life.

    Runner-up : Science and Maths
    Draw me the task     (UK, PL, CZ, NO), a fun approach to teaching basic mathematical concepts to younger pupils: partner schools sent one to each other simple mathematical tasks in order to solve them and then they met through Skype.

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newsA French-Romanian short film supported by Youth in Action wins International award

"Shadows which cross me" ("Les Ombres qui me traversent") is a short film produced by the French Association "La Cabane à Images" for Youth in Action project "Là-bas, si j'y vais", aiming at building up a network around cinema between French and Romanian young people in Voinesti, an isolated village in North-East Romania.
The short fiction film written and directed by Emilie Carpentier takes place in Voinesti's daily life. It required different kinds of workshops organized in order to find the Romanian actors and people who could help for photography and scenario.
"Les Ombres qui me traversent" was shown at the Romanian Cultural Center of Paris and the French one in Lasi (Romania). After being presented at the 2007 European Festival of Brest, it was subsequently selected among 1400 short films participating at the National Competition of the 30th International Short Film Festival of Clermont-Ferrand (1-9 Feb. 2008) to win the first prize as best first fiction work.

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Latest publications and DVDs from Erasmus Mundus

Projects to enhance attractivenesss

No, this is not about beauty products, rather a compendium of projects selected for the quality of their plan for the dissemination and exploitation of the project results. The compendium is in book form with descriptions of the chosen projects grouped by selection year. Details on the brochures, DVDs, websites, etc. produced by the project, the conferences, seminars and workshops organised, and contacts addresses for the project coordinator are included. The compendium also includes lists of European and international participating institutions. It is updated each year.

Erasmus Mundus Masters Courses Compendium

This compendium consists of 80 detailed descriptions of master courses, including details of the course itself, its website, names of partner universities, as well as contact addresses for the course coordinators. The compendium is updated each year.

DVDs

Because of the interest shown in the Erasmus Mundus programme, DG EAC has produced two DVDs for use by all Commission delegations and the media in Europe and in the world. One DVD was produced in 2005 and the second will be available in February 2008. The DVDs follow students on their journey through different European universities to show what the daily life of a European student looks like. They show the different ways of teaching in Europe, the teacher-student relationship, what living in a different country is like, etc. The first DVD is available in German, English, Spanish, French and Portuguese. The second will be available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic and Chinese by the end of April 2008.

For more information on all the publications available on the Erasmus Mundus programme

Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA) bring out new publication

The first "EMAnate" magazine was published in paper form and also on the EMA website at the beginning of February 2008. The magazine will come out once a year and will serve as a forum for students to share their experience. The subjects covered are varied, ranging from personal testimonials and anecdotes on students stays in Europe, to others with a more academic bent. Jan Figel, the EU Commissioner for Education and Culture, dedicated the introduction in this first edition. Behind the publication is a group of enthusiastic present and former Erasmus Mundus students.

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Making Waves. Creating More Impact with Your Youth Projects

Salto Inclusion has launched a manual outlining all the necessary steps a promoter needs to take to efficiently disseminate and exploit their project results. The booklet offers ideas on how to engage strategic thinking and some forward planning in order to ensure the impact of project outcomes in the field of youth.

The purpose of the "Making Waves" booklet is to provide some solid tips and tricks that would help project promoters everywhere to fight against the "bottom drawer syndrome", that is the risk of archiving all documents and products related to a project- and probably never looking at them again after the project is over.

The booklet presents an efficient strategy on how to raise the visibility of projects and to improve the dissemination and exploitation of results, thus allowing other project promoters to benefit from already gained experience and help them avoid e "reinventing the wheel".
The booklet deals with the rationale behind visibility, dissemination and exploitation of results and why they are necessary during and after the life-span of a project. At the same time, the booklet offers specific advice on how to develop information material, work with the media and how to set up a project website, or on how to use the products and results, follow-up on activities as well as on how to inform policy makers.

The "Making Waves" manual is available online and can be downloaded for free.

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Conference on Web-based Youth Information

DG Education and Culture is co-funding the "Youth information 2.0" event – a European Conference on challenges and opportunities of web based youth information and youth portals which will take place in Berlin on 21-24 February 2008.

The "Youth Information 2.0" conference offers a European platform for the exchange of European Youth Information in the context of online-services and national youth portals. The spreading of information over all information-channels has to be promoted, in particular over these channels that are mostly used by young people. The possibilities offered by Web 2.0 are more and more taken up from young people and offer very good possibilities for participation in information brokering. The conference will be the occasion for presenting new web technologies and discuss with actors from the field how these can be used for in youth information and for promoting youth participation. National and regional projects on youth information and new technologies will be presented and experiences shared during the three days. More information on www.youth.info

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Lingu@net Europa wins the MERLOT Award

Lingu@net Europa, a project supported by the European Commission under the Lingua Programme, has won the MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources.

Lingu@net Europa is a multilingual, online resource centre for foreign language learning. It provides information about, and links to good online resources from around the world relating to the learning and teaching of any modern foreign language.

MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and online Teaching), an initiative of the California State University Center for Distributed Learning, is a resource for learning and teaching that holds descriptions of materials for cross-searching. It has an Awards Program for Exemplary Online Learning Resources which 'recognizes and promotes outstanding online resources designed to enhance teaching and learning and honors the authors and developers of these resources for their contributions to the academic community'.

Lingu@net Europa is this year’s recipient of the "World Languages Editorial Board Classic" and the "Editor’s Choice" awards, which will be presented at the Merlot 7th International Conference in New Orleans from the 7th to the 10th of August 2007.