European Collaboration Award
Supported by the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) for the MEDEA:EU project, this award highlights the value of cross-border collaboration and aims to recognise the impact such collaboration can have in increasing understanding and enhancing the European dimension.
Who can participate?
Submissions for this award are welcome from those creating all types of educational media projects and media products that were created and used in a European context. The European Collaboration Award specifically recognises excellent examples of media in education resulting from the collaboration of institutions or organisations in 2 or more European countries. This award recognises the role European collaboration plays in stimulating interest in creating media-enhanced educational activities. The judges will pay particular attention to the European dimension, the added value of collaborating or learning across borders with or about meltimedia for learning.
Who is it aimed at?
Anyone who considers their use of media in education and training to be creative and/or innovative and where these media have a distinctive European dimension in the way that they were produced or adopted in the classroom or in the learning context! This includes European projects that are working with educational multimedia, for example eTwinning projects, but also all other projects that are using and producing educational multimedia across borders in Europe.
How can you enter?
This award is open to anyone participating in the MEDEA Awards 2010. In the submission form, you can indicate that you submit your entry also for this special European Collaboration Award.
Your entry needs to be submitted online via the submission form before the closing date: 31 July 2010 (midnight).
When will the winners be announced?
All finalists will be notified at the beginning of September and will be invited to take part in the awards ceremony taking place in November 2010. During this ceremony the final winner will be announced.
What can you win?
Prizes will include the MEDEA European Collaboration Award 2010 as well as equipment and software, details to be announced later.
In 2009, the entry Traditions Across Europe won the MEDEA European Collaboration Award 2009 for its contributions to an eTwinning project blog. The teachers who represented the winning school received a MEDEA medal and prizes including a MicroTrack II mobile digital recorder (sponsored by AVID), an Adobe Production Premium Creative Suite 4 Licence (sponsored by Adobe Systems) and a Berlin book prize.
