Basic information about the project "Animated Debate"

The guide you have just launched is the output of two - year work of artists and educators accomplishing the project entitled

Animated Debate - Computer animation workshops for dysfunctional groups with a view to foster European partnership

It has been the innovative educational and creative project which involved five institutions form four European countries.

The coordinator of the Project was Bielskie Artistic Association Grodzki Theater

 

The project was run in partnership with the following organizations:

WAC Performing Arts and Media College - Londyn, Wielka Brytania

Niepubliczna Placówka Oświatowa EST - Wadowice, Polska

Societate Romana pentru Educatie Permanenta - Bukareszt, Rumunia

The main financial source of the project was the grant awarded by the European Commission within the Socrates/Minerva action (210, 000 euro).

Other financial sources:




City of Bielsko-Biała

Silesian Province

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Polish Government Found FIO

Wróblewski Multimedia

 

Cooperating institutions:

Regionalny Ośrodek Doskonalenia Nauczycieli "WOM" w Bielsku-Białej
43-300 Bielsko-Biała, ul. Komorowicka 48
www.wombb.edu.pl

Istituto Giovanni XXXIII Trabia
Ausl n 6 Palermo Distretto Sanitario di Termini Imerese
Istituto Boccobe del Povero

The Roman-Catholic Parish "The Aggrieved Mother"
Bucurestii Noi, Linistei street no.13, sector 1, Bucharest

The main objective of the project was to run computer animation workshops for children and youth aged 10 - 20 in two rounds: from November 2003 to June 2004 and from September 2004 to June 2005. The workshops were run in all countries included in the project. The groups collaborated in pairs: Polish-English, Polish-Italian, and Polish-Romanian. In the workshops there were youth with physical disabilities, children and adolescents on the edge of social pathology, and the victims of addiction taking part.
The workshop programme included a wide range of artistic activities and pursuits. Its main rationale was to enable each of the participants to find his/her own place in the workshop team and have a chance to develop his/her individual artistic talents, passions and needs.
The project was divided into four main module of activities:
Computer workshops - learning and developing skills of using graphics and animation software to create own animations. Using the Internet
Arts workshops working on the film scripts, drawing, elements of and photography.
Film workshops - working on animated films
English learning
Additionally, there was a series of theoretical and practical workshops run for teachers.

Apart from the workshops, there has been work conducted on the description of use of the method of computer and communication technologies application at schools.

The instructors running the classes and educators in all four countries prepared the material, which apart from being the presentation of the "Animated Debate" project, accounts for the practical guide for everybody who would be interested in using the output of the project. It resulted in this guide.