OPPORTUNITIES: MEDEA Award for Creativity and Innovation - European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 (EYCI)

The MEDEA Award for Creativity and Innovation, set up to coincide with the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 (EYCI), aims to specifically award creative and innovative use of media in education.

Who is it aimed at?

Anyone who considers their use of media in education and training to be creative and/or innovative! This includes innovative applications of media in the classroom where pupils and teachers are working together to use media in different ways to enhance learning or trainers and facilitators in lifelong learning centres who are using media creatively to help learners explore new opportunities. It also includes groups of students who are working together on projects using media to explore and understand the world in a more creative way.

Applications are invited from people using media in a variety of ways and could include for example a submission like the one which earned 5 learners and teacher Steven Ronsijn from the secondary school Sint‐Lievenscollege, Ghent in Belgium the MEDEA Special Award 2008 at the MEDEA Awards Ceremony 2008 for their outstanding entry entitled Anti-Anti. This multimedia pervasive game was created entirely by secondary school students to sensitise students in the context of the national day against unnecessary violence. Students had to search a fictitious murderer in their school through clues provided to them in mp3‐files and video clips.

How can you enter?

This Award is open to anyone participating in the MEDEA Awards 2009. In the submission form, you will be able to indicate that you consider your entry to be particularly creative or innovative and thus that you wish to compete also for this special award. A special group of judges from the MEDEA Judging Panel will be assessing these entries separately.

Your entry need to be sent before the closing date: 30 September 2009, 12:00 Midnight (postmark will be checked).

When will the winners be announced?

Those short-listed for this Award will be notified at the beginning of November and will be invited to take part in the Awards Ceremony taking place in the beginning of December 2009. At this ceremony the final winner will be announced.

What can you win?

Prizes will include the MEDEA Creativity and Innovation Award as well as equipment and software, details to be announced later.

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