DETVET project was last week given the Highest Quality Award in the category of Leonardo da Vinci projects in 2009 - 2011 by the EU Lifelong Learning Lithuanian National Agency.

In her message to the project partners Loreta Staškūnienė, coordinator of DETVET wrote: "This award gives a lot of inspiration and stimuli for the new challenges, new applications, new cooperation."

DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) was an EU funded partnership programme. TAMK's role in this project was to share its expertise in using Social Media in Education. TAMK was represented by its Educational Technology Center and Degree Programme in Media. Other project partners come from Czech Republic, Denmark, Italy, Lithuania and Sweden.
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Our Media degree students and Media exchange students have been involved in 50 (Fifty!) design and development projects this spring. Fifteen of them have been part of Demola Academy (Read the story about the pitching contest).

Some projects were present at Media Spring Expo last week. The expo worked in two ways - there was a project poster exhibition, and also students showcasing their projects.

This spring we decided that the students can make the project reports in poster format instead of the traditional heap of paper.

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From Demola Academy kick-off in September

Story: Emilija Veselova
Shaking hands, sweat of fear and trembling voice were the things you could see a lot yesterday during the Demola Academy NADC pitching event.

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Fine art student Veera Luoto & Augustin "Gustav" Bubnik

Story: Vesa Rantanen, 10IMP
In september 10-17 2011 a team of ten College of Media and Journalism (Prague) and ten TAMK Art & Media students were working together in Prague, Czech Republic, as a part of EU coordinated Youth in Action programme.

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Deadline of one of our coolest annual international projects Friday next week!

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DETVET family photo

TAMK hosted the last meeting of the DETVET project this week at Finlayson Campus. DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) is an EU funded partnership programme. TAMK's role in this project is to share its expertise in using SOcial Media in Education. TAMK is represented by ist Educational Technology Center and Degree Programme in Media. Other project partners come from Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Lithuania and Sweden.

The project has had six meetings, all partners have hosted one meeting. After the Tampere meeting partners finish their reports. An electronic book will share the project conclusions with everybody interested.

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Fruitful and busy semester is coming to an end. I have been involved in two projects in Demola. 

One of them was a Flash game named Hukkelon Aikakone, which will be published in Pikku Kakkonen –website in near future.
Story: Amir Abdi

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One of our coolest annual international projects is again kicked off!

Call to participate in the 5th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition 28th – 30th September 2011 Tampere, Finland

Competition deadline: June 15th 2011

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Left to right: Tuomo Joronen, Jarno Tolonen, Sohvi Sirkesalo, Cai Melakoski and Ari Närhi in front of the Palacký University

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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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Neil by the largest telescope in Finland: 1,03m reflector

Story: Eeva-Kaisa AhlamoThe Interactive Media Programme students have many projects. Some of the them big, some of them small. During their second year, many students will work in a project that will give them 30 study credits, that is equivalent to 800 hours of work.

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Nico Meisnner in our rooftop garden

'Using the World Wide Web to Sustain Independent Filmmaking' was the title of the four day workshop given by Nico Messner from Salford University last week for our third year film&tv students and some exchange students.

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The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. Ubimedia means technology that is embedded in its surroundings. The word “Ubi” comes from the Latin word “ubique” which means “everywhere”. The competition was open to all kinds of artists, practitioners, and industries and the total prize sum is 7.000 Euros.

Head of Jury Björn Stockleben, 2009 winners with DonkeyPedia Frans Alsema and Joost van Eeden and competition co-chair Kirsi Lindfors

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Demola, Finlayson behind the taf (Tampere Art Factory) banner

The Summer School for Students and Young Designers is to be held in Tampere, Finland, from 30th of August till 3rd of September in 2010 at the DEMOLA Centre of Innovation. The Engage Summer school will tackle issues related to game design as well as how to embed curricular topics in the game design. The summer school (3 ECTS) will accommodate between 15 – 25 international students and game designers. For further information about the logistics and the application form, click on the links at Engage Summer School home

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Deadline of submissions July 30

The Ubimedia competition seeks to broaden our understanding of where and how ubiquitous media will influence our future life. We are looking for disruptive artistic visions as well as clever near-to-market solutions off the beaten tracks! This includes any range of innovative ubimedia, pervasive, or ambient products and services. The Ubimedia Award is a highly interdisciplinary competition and we invite Designers, Computer Scientists, Artists, Economists and Engineers to take a stand on the following questions with their entries:

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Pertti Näränen (TAMK) and Artur Lugmayr (TUT), two of the organisers and chairs

The eight edition of the annual conference  on Interactive TV & Video EuroITV started today with the pre-conference workshop day in the premises of TAMK School of Art and Media in the Finlayson.area. The theme of the conference is “web.sharing.TV.content”, reflecting the increasing connections between TV and web services.

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Raul Oreshkin and Külli Hansen on our snowy roof top garden

We welcomed again visitors from the Estonian twin city of Tampere, Tartu. Külli Hansen and Raul Oreshkin, representatives of Tartu Centre for Creative Industries were guests of Creative Tampere for two days to learn about creative institutions in Tampere. Tampere UAS Finlayson campus with the School of Art and Media and the proAcademy were targets of the tour.

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Story: Pauli Kopu
Innovator format development is alive and kicking well. We’ve been busy with funding and co-operation arrangements, but no worries I have a good feeling that during the February we can come out of the closet with the most recent development.

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The second DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) project meeting was today and yesterday in Östra Grevie, Skåne, southern Sweden.

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Story: Jukka Siltanen
The Hub is an initiative to build a network of places around the world where entrepreneurs, innovators and changemakers can meet and work together to tackle the world's most pressing social, cultural and environmental challenges. A place is needed to inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a radically better world.

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