From Archive To Alive partners are pleased to announce our photo / video contest is now open!
We call for young users of digital archives, to create a digital art work, related to AT LEAST ONE OR MORE of the following themes:
■ civic engagement
■ inclusion
■ environmental awareness
The competition will recognise excellence in content creation and visual storytelling that demonstrates creativity and innovation in using digital archives.
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It’s time to launch the From Archive To Alive Digital Art contest for students!!!
FATA – From Archive to Alive is an ERASMUS+ project (No. 2021-1-FR01-Ka220-SCH-000031562).
FATA aims to motivate students to explore available audio-visual archives, compare traditional and digital art, learn about their civic engagement and social inclusiveness while raising awareness of environmental issues.
The competition is open to students of Erasmus Plus participating countries and those associated with the programme (list of countries).
The contest is for students aged between 12 and 18 years old; who can either participate individually or in a group with up to 4 other classmates.
Students should submit a piece of digital artwork on one (or more) these
subjects:
– Civic Engagement
– Inclusivity
– Environmental Awareness
Each entry must fulfil 3 main requirements:
– To be a work of digital art, therefore containing any type of digital elements (it can’t have a physical form);
– To be based on material found on one or more digital archive platforms;
– To address one or more of the topics of civic engagement, social inclusion and environmental awareness.
The project team met in Marseille on May 31st 2022 to work on the outcomes of From Archive To Alive. Specifically, Archive to Alive will produce an e-learning course for teachers that will show them how to design lessons and projects through the use of the digital audio-visual archives in order to make them more appealing.
The project uses EUscreen, which is a portal containing thousands of digital audio-visual items steaming from the biggest European audio-visual archives that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly form a European perspective. Teh content on the EUscreen platform content offers an important collection of resources that can be exploited in education and incorporated in school lessons and projects.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Archive to Alive Project web site!
Due to the pandemic measures, students have been deprived of cultural stimuli since field trips have been put on hold. At the same time, platforms such as EUscreen which have exceptionally interesting material, have not received sufficient attention, despite the fact that it has been online for about 10 years.
EUscreen is a portal containing thousands of digital audiovisual items steaming from the biggest European audiovisual archives that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries, mainly form the European aspect. Therefore, the platform’s content can be an important collection of resources that can be exploited in education and incorporated in school lessons and projects.
In recent years there has been a greater than ever need for civic participation, democratic values and social inclusion, due to daily incidents of racism, pre-discrimination and prejudice, and environmental awareness due to the veer alarming issue of climate change.
The Archive to Alive project addresses all these issues simultaneously since it will provide students with a substitute for field trips, it will turn the spotlight to an interesting but neglected platform and it will raise awareness on inclusion and environment through its contest.