The original European Virtual Academy (EVA) project funded by EU is over but the project goes on with three courses this spring. For next year the partners prepare a new bid to extend EVA to other fields of education and bring it on the next level.

Poster by Emilia Kwiatkowska, EVA-logo by Alexandra Ostasheva. Both TAMK Media Programme students

There are many European universities considering to join EVA.

The courses of EVA spring semester are:
Image Interpretation
Babeş-Bolyai University (Romania)
This course is dedicated to the analysis and interpretation of images. Visual interpretations will be performed and the focus of the course is to develop examining skills for any type of images available in the visual culture (from classical paintings to digitally processed images).

Social Media in Communication and Community Building
Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
After completing the course the student knows how to use social networking, blog publishing, micro blogging services to broadcast and to communicate with targeted audiences. (S)he is also able to establish and moderate online discussion groups and wikis for knowledge and community building.

Interactive Movies
Hochschule Mittweida - University of Applied Sciences (Germany)
The course introduces students to the concept of interactive storytelling and digital narratives. For the purpose of this course the term “interactive movie” will refer to animated, filmed, video game-based and any other kind of movies following a main story but enabling user interaction. Interactive movies implement interactive dramaturgies and typically use technologies to allow users to influence the storylines.

All courses give 5 credits and run until end of May. The courses are open for students of member universities.

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The autumn semester of the European Virtual Academy is up and running with eight courses in English + one in Hungarian and one in Italian.

Enrolment time is over for most courses, but two courses accept new participants by October 14 and one by October 15, so hurry up if you want to join.

One of the new courses in EVA's programme is the Narrative Photography course with Sari Tervaniemi from our Degree Programme in Fine Arts

The courses are open for students of the partner universities Babes-Bolyai University, Hochschule Mittweida - UAS, Sapientia Hungarian University of Transilvania, Tampere UAS (TAMK) and University of Milano-Bicocca. The plan is to invite new partners after the first, EU funded, phase of the project is over.

The autumn semester courses in English are:

• Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
• Economic Models in the Media*
• Film analysis
• Interactive movies
• Introduction to visual culture
• Narrative photography
• Production and Distribution Processes (in the media and communication)*
• Reflexivity in Film** 

* Enrolment by October 14
** Enrolment by October 15

Also our studentsshare their EVA experiences on their blogs. The most recent entry is on the Emirella blog, you find a link below, good reading

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EVA on the blog Emirella and her colourful world
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On Wednesday Tampere Art Factory International Week seminars started. Here are the speakers and topics of the first session

Awesome Art and Media 1 hosted by Cai Melakoski:

Rosa Pons, University of Vic (ES):  DobleClick -festival and workshops in University of Vic

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Story: Anna-Kaisa Nässi
For the past nine weeks I’ve been participating in the Image Interpretation course led by Doru Pop, on the European Virtual Academy (EVA).  EVA is an online university that allows students from around Europe to collaborate and learn in a virtual environment.

Screenshot of the animation

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This week our Media Programme hosts the second EVA project meeting.



Noora Honkaniemi and Alicia Fernándes promoting EVA at TAMK  School of Art and Media accompanied by EVA Board members Doru Pop, Robert Wierzbicki, Dezső Szenkovics and Ari Närhi

European Virtual Academy builds a transnational educational platform, a service for exchange studies implemented at home. EVA follows the guidelines of building the European Higher Education Area as they are presented in the ECTS Users' Guide.

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Story: Heidi Mäenpää

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Prof. Doru Pop, coordinator of the project, leading the curriculum workshop

Last weekend the EVA-project was kicked off in Cluj, the capital of Transylvania in Romania. Our aim is to build the campus of visual culture studies as a pilot of European Virtual Academy over the next two years. We will have courses, library, labs and forums in the digital world, taking advantage of social media tools and Open Source software.

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TAMK Finlayson Campus from back

Finlayson Campus is more international than ever this autumn. New nationalities are present among Degree Programme in Media students, we welcome 21 exchange students (new record), and MA in Screenwriting hosts five international students.

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