AUGUST 2010
◊ Recently Zinev Art technologies became a national contact 
point for Bulgaria for the initiative MEDEA Awards. The MEDEA Awards is a competition that was launched in November 2007 with the aim to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of media (audio, video, graphics and animation) in education. The awards also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources. The European dimension of the MEDEA Awards initiative is enhanced, strengthened and complemented by MEDEA:EU - a European Commission supported project.
Here you can find the latest NEWSLETTER of the initiative.
Contact information
For more information about MEDEA, please contact the MEDEA Secretariat:
Nikki Cortoos, MEDEA Secretariat
Address: ATiT, Leuvensesteenweg 132, B-3370 Roosbeek, Belgium
Tel: +32 16 284 040, Fax: +32 16 223 743E-mail: secretariat@medea-awards.com
JUNE 2010
◊ From 21 till 23 September 2010 a ZAT expert will take part in a partnership meeting under the ISHEDS project, supported under the TEMPUS IV programme, in relation with the running external evaluation, which has been assigned by the project promoter Swansea University, UK to ZAT. The meeting is about to take place in Croatia.
◊ From 21 till 25 September 2010 ZAT representatives will take part in the fourth and last project meeting under the REVIT project as well as the conference, which is going to take place during the same time in the island of Ios, Greece.
◊ In the period 1-12 September 2010 ZAT expert Zornitsa Staneva is going to visit local action groups from the territory of the region of Sardinia, Italy with the teams of the future local action groups for the territories of the municipalities of Radnevo and Kostinbrod.
The meetings will have the purpose of presenting the excellent experiences of Italian LAG, which have functioned at least during the LEADER+ phase of the programme and have approved strategies for the period 2007-2013, when the LEADER approach becomes an integrated part of the national and, as is the case with Italy, regional rural development policies.
◊ In the period 7-10 July 2010 a ZAT in a workshop meeting under the ISHEDS project, supported under the TEMPUS IV programme, in relation with the running external evaluation, which has been assigned to ZAT. The workshop is about to take place in London, UK.
MAY 2010
◊ In the period 5-8 May 2010 a ZAT representative took part in the third partnership meeting under the REVIT project, organized in Palaichori, Cyprus.
At http://www.facebook.com/pages/REVIT/200826389421 you can see the Facebook page developed in connection with the project and photos from the meeting itself.
APRL 2010
◊ As of April 2010 ZAT has become main consultant of the municipality of Radnevo in the process of formation of a local action group under the LEADER approach for its territory.
The activities, which the ZAT team is about to implement in relation with the contract under the project “Acquisition of skills and achieving local social animation on the territory of the municipality of Radnevo for the establishment of a local action group”, RD 50-368/28.12.2009, are as follows:
- conducting 3 three-day trainings for local leaders;
- development of a common database with interested parties under the project;
- evaluation of the potential for business and economic development on the territory;
- conducting an assessment of the training needs;
- conducting a training for the project team;
- elaboration of an analysis of the social and economic condition of the territory.
JANUARY 2010
◊ On March 4-5 Zinev Art Technologies is going to host the third partnership meeting under the OnAir project. The meeting will be attended by representatives of all partner organization and will tackle questions regarding the results achieved and the forthcoming project activities and anticipated results. The meeting will take place in hotel “Sveta Sofia”.
◊ On Feb 12 Zinev Art Technologies organizes two work shops for school teachers for presentation of good practices /case studies/ from Bulgaria and all other partner countries under the project on the use of media in school education. During the work shops will also be discussed the future activities and the expected results – the educational paths for writing skills, reading skills, critical thinking skills and choosing skills. The participants in the work shops will receive information packages. They will also be given an opportunity to present their good practices and to share experiences from the possibilities and hardships in applying media in the school education.
The work shops will take place in hotel Rodina, Mesta hall, from 9 till 12 and then from 14 till 17. For further information and registration call 02/4342244 or send an email to zinevart@gmail.com.
OCTOBER 2009
◊ Representatives of Zinev Art Technologies took part in the second partnership meeting under the REVIT project, which took place in the town of Kula and was organized and conducted together by Kula Municipality and Zinev Art Technologies which are the BG partners under the project.
JANUARY 2009
◊ During November 2008 started the “On Air: European media education” project, co-funded by the EC under the Lifelong learning programme, sub-programme Comenius, contract number: 142299-LLP-1-2008-1-IT-COMENIUS-CMP.
The main aim of the project is to unify schools at a European level in their efforts to transform the new media from a threat to the students’ literacy into a tool for developing both reading and writing skills as well as the students’ critical approach towards understanding the reality by using information from the medial.
Leading organization is Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, and the partners are:
INFOREF, Belgium;
Зинев Арт Технологии ЕООД, Bulgaria;
Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania;
Easy Technologies S.r.l., Italy;
Pixel, Italy;
MED – Media education – Association for education to media and communication, Italy;
WSINF – The College of Computer Science, Poland;
Current “On Air” information will be published on ZAT web-site: www.artsbg.net, as well as on the official project web-site: www.onair.medmediaeducation.it.
JANUARY 2009
◊ In connection with the Michelangelo Comenius project, which started December 2007 /project number: 134318-LLP-1-20071-IT-Comenius/, oriented towards teachers and students from European schools, which would like to receive knowledge about the brightest art representatives of the last 10 centuries, partner Zinev Art Technologies would like to announce that the contents of the Bulgarian national online art course are already done and published in EN language on the project portal. Its publication in Bulgarian will happen shortly.
The publication of the online training courses on German, Polish, Italian and British art is also about to happen within the next couple of weeks.
During the months to follow, the developed courses will be presented through one-hour online meetings between project partners and interested teachers. These online meetings will be facilitated through the free online conferencing software FlashMeeting.
In order to get acquainted with the topics and content of each national course, you can visit: http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org/index.php and login by using user name “Teacher” and password “Pixel”.
The schedule for presenting the different national courses will be as follows:
27 Feb – Bulgarian art
27 March- British art
29 April – Italian art
29 May – Polish art
26 June – German art
In order to express your interest for inclusion in the groups, which will participate in these presentations, please, send an email to zinevart@gmail.com.
During September 2009 in connection with Michelangelo, the leading organization Pixel will organize a 5 day qualification course under the Comenius individual qualification courses programme, which will take place in Florence and for inclusion in which you can apply before the Human Resources Development Center, which is the BG national agency under the programme. For more information, do not hesitate to contact us.
AUGUST 2008
◊ In connection with the work on the Michelangelo project, financed by the European Commission under the Lifelong long Learning programme – sub-programme Comenius, contract number: 134318-LLP-1-20071-IT-Comenius, the consortium has already activated the project portal, which is accessible at http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org/. The partnership is ready with its selection and detailed presentation of the selected most prominent artists/artworks for the last 10 centuries in the partner countries.
From this link you can download a project brochure in Bulgarian language.
DECEMBER 2007
◊ On 14 December 2007 in Vidin will take place a closing event under the eTalent project, organized by the Municipality of Novo selo with the support and under the patronage of the newly elected mayor – Mr. Georgi Stoenelov.
The purpose of this seminar will be for the elaborated database and strategy for continuation to be presented before the local target groups and a consultation between project partners and the beneficiaries to take place.
◊ As of December 2007 Zinev Art Technologies starts work under the successful Comenius LLP project “Michelangelo: Unlocking European Fine Art”, initiated, developed and lead by Pixel, Italy /www.pixel-online.net/.
NOVEMBER 2007
◊ On 25 November 2007 the electronic database of e-learning contents, solutions, materials and service providers has been completed and is now freely available online at the project web-site: www.e-talent.eu. After you enter the web-site, go to the image circled in red. Bulgarian is among the database languages.
SEPTEMBER 2007
Events in Vidin and Pazardjik
◊ On Sept 11 in the building of the district administration in Vidin, and then on Sept 12 in Pazardjik, the partners under project “ETALENT: Valorization of eLearning projects results focused on the effects of ICT application and innovation introduction on youth talent development” project, co-financed by the eLearning program of the EU, lead by the Municipality of Novo selo, organized and conducted follow up seminars, the purpose of which was to valorise successful projects under the eLearning programme and other EC programme /Minerva, FP6/ before representatives of the schools from the region of Vidin and Pazardjik, representatives of the regional education and training NGOs, regional and national media, regional educational inspectorates. About 100 target group representatives took part in the two seminars in Vidin and Pazardjik. Strong interest towards possibilities for transfer of innovation was expressed.
JULY 2007
◊ The documentary on the eTalent project is now finalized. The film will be presented officially during the forthcoming seminars in Vidin and Pazardjik and will be disseminated together with the informational and promotional booklet, which will be ready by mid August.
In order to request a copy of the film on DVD, do not hesitate to contact the project coordinator – the Municipality of Novo selo, or partner organization ZAT.
JUNE 2007
◊ On June 12 in Dessau, Germany, in the building of the local branch of DAA, was organized and conducted a follow up seminar for presenting the selected successful projects within the framework of eTalent before the German target groups.
◊ On June 15 in Cagliari, Italy, in hotel „Caesar’s”, was organized and conducted a follow up seminar for presenting the selected successful projects within the framework of eTalent before the Italian target groups.
For further information on the follow up seminars in Germany and Italy, do not hesitate to visit the project web-site : www.e-talent.eu.
APRIL 2007
◊ On April 2-3 2007 in hotel «Rodina» in Sofia the partners under the „eTalent: Valorization of eLearning projects results focused on the effects of ICT application and innovation introduction on youth talent development” project, implemented with the support of the eLearning programme of the European Union, conducted a Valorization conference, in which took part representatives of all partner organizations, guests presenting successful projects under the eLearning programme and other EU programmes /Minerva, FP6/, representatives of schools from all over Bulgaria /Sofia region, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo, Kardjali, Rousse, Silistra region/, NGOs, regional and national media, regional educational inspectorates.
The projects , which were presented on April 2 during the conference, are as follows:
ERNIST: Technological know - how equals knowledge /Mr. Paul Gerhard, European Schoolnet, Belgium/;
ART-NET: Virtual space for e-learning based art teaching material /Dr. Elisabetta Delle Donne, Pixel, Italy/;
ULEARN: Teachers blazing an e-learning trail /Dott. ssa Manuela Repetto, Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche (CNR), Italy/;
uTEACHER /Dott. ssa Manuela Repetto, Istituto Tecnologie Didattiche (CNR), Italy/;
CareerSpace /Prof. Ismail Bhana, The University of Reading, Great Britain/;
GENIUS: Tapping into knowledge /Prof. Ismail Bhana, The University of Reading, Great Britain/;
e-Lane /Prof. Ismail Bhana, The University of Reading, Great Britain/;
ActiveMath - EU /Zornitsa Machanova, ZAT Ltd. on behalf of MSc. Math. George Goguadze, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany/;
MustLearnIT: Using ICT for Speacial Subject Distance Learning in Multigrade Schools /Mr. Thanasis Hadzilacos, Academic Research Computer Technology Institute, Greece/;
i.e. Us: Intercultural Educational Dialogues: What unites us, what separates us! /Mr. Thanasis Hadzilacos, Academic Research Computer Technology Institute, Greece/;
e-MUSE: e-learning is child's play /Mr. Thanasis Hadzilacos, Academic Research Computer Technology Institute, Greece/;
On behalf of the Bulgarian schools, 144 High school «National leaders», Sofia presented their good practices in the development and implementation of innovative projects stimulating the talent of the students.
Presented was also the INFORMATIONAL BULLETIN of the NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON EDUCATION issued by Foundation “Minyu Balkanski” as well as educational activities of the Foundation.
On April 3 took place an open discussion aimed at problem /need – solution finding and matching. The flow of questions, proposals and ideas coming on both sides – from the schools’ representatives and from the projects presenters demonstrated to all participants how useful the conducted event has been and how many opportunities for collaboration between potential school beneficiaries and EU project implementers exist.
The partners under the eTalent project would like to thank all those who responded positively to our invitation to join the activities under our project and the conference itself. We will soon publish additional information on the products under the project and the forthcoming activities. You are welcome to keep an eye on this web-site and the official Internet address of the project: www.e-talent.eu.
Look forward to the documentary on the eTalent project, which will be used by the partners actively for reaching out to as many potential beneficiaries as possible.
JANUARY 2007
◊ As of January 2007 Zinev Art Technologies Ltd. started its work as a partner under the project „eTALENT: Valorization of eLearning projects results focused on the effects of ICT application and innovation introduction on youth talent development”, co-financed by the EU under the eLearning program, contract number 2006-4504/001-001 ELE ELEB 14. Under this project will be elaborated an analysis of the level at which the schools in the three partner countries – Bulgaria, Italy and Germany – are applying ICT and introducing innovations in the teaching process for the purpose of stimulating the students’ talents. A valorization conference is also going to be conducted for the purpose of presenting successful projects implemented under the eLearning program. A database will be elaborated with the products created under these projects, good practices, case studies and all other kinds of information, which could be useful for stimulating the students’ talents.
The project duration is 12 months and will be finalized at the end of December 2007.
Additional information on the project can be found at its dedicated page: http://www.artsbg.net/ZAT%20projects/Pages/eng/eLearning.htm .
DECEMBER 2006
◊ Zinev Art Technologies Ltd. developed the successful “eTALENT” project under the eLearning programme of the European Union. ZAT is partner to the leading organization – Novo Selo Municipality – together with DAA Braunschweig from Germany /www.daa-braunschweig.de/ and Esode Srl. from Italy /www.esode.it/.
The implementation of the project will take place from January till December of 2007.
News and information on the project will be published regularly on the partners’ web-sites.
◊ ZAT is the official representative of Esode Srl. in the deployment of the SWAPIE project – the first social educational network for university students from all over the world. ZAT and Esode are at present at the initial test phase of deployment of SWAPIE. SWAPIE will provide the following services to university/college students after registration:
- the ability to search for relevant educational material throughout the databases of all participating universities /the SWAPIE search engine will be indexing all digital documents published on the web-sites of the partner universities/ as well as through the database of documents uploaded by other SWAPIE users;
- the ability to upload their own profiles – with friends, study groups, personal favorites and forums, as well as upload educational content in the database of the platform;
- the ability to join study groups and experience the advantages of real-time contact with other on-line users, interact and exchange opinions and materials;
- the ability to spend high-quality time on-line having fun and communicating with peers from all over the world.
All interested students can join the network for its testing by contacting ZAT either by email: zinevart@gmail.com or by phone – 00359 889 306134 and 00359 2 8622506.
