MEDEA Awards 2012

Special Prize of the MEDEA Jury

In addition to the main MEDEA awards, the judges may, at their discretion, present a special award to an approach or production in recognition of exceptional innovation in pedagogic or technical design.

The MEDEA Awards are supported by the European Commission through the Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) for the MEDEAnet project (2012-2014).

In the past years the judges have given a special award to:

Past winners

2012 Flying Start introduces a range of academic skills throughout the 4 week period between the students receiving ‘A’ levels and starting at university.	2010 Pocket Anatomy, a fully searchable interactive atlas of the human anatomy for its innovative use of mobile learning technologies	2009 Eyes on the Skies, a superb example of the value high quality video imagery can bring to an educational production
2008 Anti-Anti (2008), a media-based pervasive learning game

EC Education and Culture

Pronunciation Tips is a series of 44 free videos showing the sounds of English. These videos encourage the user to not only practice the sounds of English but also to learn and use the phonetic symbols that represent them.
Monkey Tales Games is a 3D video game series supporting children in primary school to learn mathematics through five exciting and fun video games with age-specific themes. In the games, a player has to solve 3D puzzles and is challenged by a monkey to take part in a mini maths game which the player has to win to get to the next level.
Know IT All for Primary Schools is a vibrant new 3D SMART animation created by Childnet, designed especially for both primary school staff and primary pupils. The resource is designed to help school staff to understand important e-safety issues and to offer strategies and information on how to support young pupils to get the most out of the Internet.
Armi di distruzione di massa or ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’ is a video clip that aims to raise awareness about the risks of drunk driving. As it is part of a bigger Road Safety project by the producing Italian school, it is integrated with traditional teaching activities and relevant events organised by the school.
Theorem of fire explains the development of a fire with different visual effects, scales and comments. It also describes how a smoke detector works using special effects and close-ups. The film has been produced so that parts of it can be used and questions answered with the help of a specialist or a teacher. The film recommends the right behaviour in case of a fire and explains how an emergency call centre works as well as the fire department.