T h i s p r o j e c t h a s b e e n f u n d e d w i t h s u p p o r t f r o m t h e E u r o p e a n C o m m i s s i o n . T h i s n e w s l e t t e r r e f l e c t s t h e v i e w s o n l y o f t h e a u t h o r, a n d t h e C o m m i s s i o n c a n n o t b e h e l d

r e s p o n s i b l e f o r a n y u s e w h i c h m a y b e m a d e o f t h e i n f o r m a t i o n c o n t a i n e d t h e r e i n .

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The project "SH.A.R.P - A platform for SHAring and Re-Presenting” (2009 - 2012) was pro-moted by the University of Pavia (Communication and Psychology Departments) and CEM (Media Education Centre) together with institutions from seven European countries – France, Portugal, Italy, Cyprus, Lithuania, Rumania, and Bulgaria. One of the main objec-tives was to realize a web-platform to edit shared audio and video prod-ucts on-line (video representations). The project started with a detailed research on cooperative devices and the mechanism related to the self reproduction and self narration dynamics. Each Sharp’s member identified in his own context peo-ple at risk of social or digital mar-ginalization and people who have important but difficult relationships with their area (a great focus was on school reality and “digital natives” generation, who don’t show neither an appropriate digital awareness nor a suitable self-representation). Peo-ple identified were trained to visual communication in a learning-by-doing approach, through their own community how to make video nar-ration, related to their area, identity and culture. Documentaries were gathered in the web platform, which represents not only a great data-base but also a strong device used to modify and mix together vid-eos. The SHARP partnership pro-

THE LIFE OF SHARP

duced a Pedagogical kit “Teaching and Learning Digital Media” as an instruction for direct training and for the dissemination of the project competences. Еach partner held local workshops in their countries for the selected target groups. The kit gives modules for training of the various groups - children, teachers, students, adults. In this way, the project SAH-RP realized new and common area of constructing of self and public im-ages and of sharing representations.

The photographical exhibition "Sharing and Presenting" was the first exhibition organised in the new Metrostation "The European Union" in Sofia, Bulgaria. The exhibition presented the SHARP project using images from whole Europe and the project key words. Miroslav Gaydo-shik is the author of those photos. He is member of Easy CommunicationAssociation (ECA), Bulgaria. The exhibition was visited by Sharp partners during Sofia meeting in October 2012. SHARP partners are really appreciated for the support of the Sofia Municipality and the Sofia Metropoliten. The exhibition also was presented in the University of Pavia in November 2012 during the Final SHARP meeting and events.

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What is the SHARP Pedagogical Kit “Teaching and Learning Digital Media”?

This kit is intended for teach-ers, educators, trainers and oth-ers who want to improve their competences in the field of edu-cation about and through new media technologies. The cen-tral areas of inquiry are images (still imagery, films, videos) and web tool creation and applica-tion (platforms for informa-tion searches, for sharing, for producing media content, etc.).The kit is based on the educa-

tional experiences engendered during the SHARP project by the different partners within their own contexts. These proj-ects were conducted with dif-ferent targets (e.g. students, teachers, adults, elderly peo-ple, minorities) and with par-ticular topics (chosen from the main themes of Sharp: identity, memory, territory....) in mind.The information presented sheds light on the main theme of the SHARP (Sharing and RePresent-

ing) from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The five theoretical chapters of the kit aim to provide help in answering the five main questions – How can I plan a project? How can I didacticise ICT in a project? How can I analyse images, film and sound? How can I produce images and films? How can I col-lect significant social resources? The presented workshops on the other had a practical examples of

actual training projects conduct-ed by SHARP partners of Sharp during the overall project, with different participants and with specific topics in mind. These workshops can be used as a cue and as examples for planning laboratoies, projects or teaching units related to the main themes of SHARP in specific individual contexts. For each chapter the reader will find a brief intro-duction and a downloadable pdf file containing the complete text. Moreover, videos related to the workshop or to didac-tic activities are also included.

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SHARP INVITATIONSHARE your media project on SHARP web! SHARP is an online platform where you can share yours and your team's video projects for others to see and get to know you. You can also watch how members of different disadvantaged groups in Europe used the audiovisual media to represent themselves and the places they live in!

Congratulations Portugal! Congratulations Almada!Congratulations Secondary School Emidio Navarro!

In the amateur video competi-tion “Videoparticipiamo”, Pavia, Italy, attended more than 80 vid-eos from many different Euro-pean countries. Students Flávio Palma and Mariana Branco, from the Secondary School Emídio Na-varro, Almada, Portugal, took the first International award with the

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film “Landscape of Lisbon.” The winning work was presented the tender guidance of Professor An-tónio Sales from Portugal. The of-ficial ceremony for the awards took place during the meeting “Pessoa-sem Pessoa” on Saturday Decem-ber 15, 2012, in the Library José Saramago, Feijó, Almada, Portugal.

Pictured, from left to right: Professor António Sales - teacher of the student winners in the Secondary SchoolEmidio Navarro (ESEN), Mariana Branco - co-author of the winning video, Professor Carlos Cardoso –Sub-Director of ESEN,

Professor Adelaide Paredes Silva - Director of Teacher Training Centre and member of the SHARP Project, Flávio Palma - co-author of the winning video and

Professor Rui Baltazar - Professor at ESEN and member of the SHARP Project

Territories in change - First Italian competition of participative video

The “Videopartecipiamo competi-tion” was organized as two parallel competitions with unique goal of pro-ducing video as social action – one for Italian participants and one Inter-national competition for the partici-pants from the European countries partners of the Project LLP-SHARP. The “Videopartecipiamo”collected videos realized by non professional teams. The main theme of the com-petition was the territory represented by its social, cultural, economic and environmental changes. Videos were created by no single filmmakers but by pre-existent groups or groups formed ad hoc (school groups, communities, associations or spontaneous groups). The video finalists were shown No-vember 24, 2012, at the Aula Scar-pa, University of Pavia. The winners received diploma and presents. The award ceremony concluded the fi-nal conference of the project SHARP.

THE JURY of competition was:Giulia Dipersia - teacher of high school, Roberto Figazzolo - cinema expert, Philip Ticozzi - director, Riccardo Bernasconi - videomaker.

The winners are:First Prize - “L‘oggetto posseduto” 5:30Laboratory „L‘oggetto posseduto“ Vincenzo Beschi, Silvia Palermo, Irene Tedeschi (Brescia)Video interview conducted partly live and partly in stop motion which speaks of everyday objects of the protagonists of the interview.Second prize - “Bulli, micorbi e ping pong”16‘30 „school of cannero riviera (Verbania)The short film is about a group of kids who suffer bullying and learn how to defend themselves from the older boys

with intelligence and irony. Third prize - “Le fantastiche av-venture” 8‘30, Centro diuro i tigli” (Modena) A brief history of fantasy drawings made in stop motion by a community of people with disabilities. SHARP Special prize - Capi-tulo de LX2, Escola secundaria

Emidio Navarro, Portugal 2:40 A short collage of images depicting Lisbon as a city in constant change. The winners received diploma and pre-sent from the Italian organization team.

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EUROPEANS SHARING VIEWSMaking sense of the world through multimedia, 11-15 February 2013, Almada, PORTUGAL Th e course promotes knowl- The course promotes knowl-edge and analysis of the theoretical framework of SHARP (consider-ing the concepts of Culture, Iden-tity and Territory/environment), encourages the sharing of points of view and participation in the European awareness construction;fosters translation and mobiliza-tion of SHARP themes through multimedia production tech-niques and ICT skills; encourages the development of pedagogi-cal practices involving trainees/learners; develops the benchmark of good practices; allows partici-pants to share their experience and develop the project (and oth-er projects) by web networking; produce multimedia pedagogical objects (output); shares multime-dia productions; contributes to the emergency of ideas and project development between European educational and training organizations.

Methodology • Active, collaborative and partici-pative approach (as a principle); • Conceptual and Theoretical Framing of main SHARP’s con-cepts and combinations; • Sharing and development of mul-timedia production competences; • Field Work (observation; video and photo capture; mapping; interviews) Film/Multimedia production: information; concep-tion, confrontation, collaboration, selection (image, sound and text), assemblage and edition; • Critical analysis and reflection relating theoretical and practi-cal dimensions, with multimedia objects produced;

• Evaluation (with forms filled by trainees and trainers); • Dissemination and follow-up strategies. Target Participants Teachers, Teacher trainers, Ca-reers officers, educational guides and counselors, Inspectors, Head-teachers/principals/managers of schools/organisations offering adult education, Other (Paid or voluntary) management staff in the institution/organization, Mem-bers of students/teachers councils in adult education, Other, namely: Local municipal education offic-ers, Members of students/teach-ers councils in adult education Trainers Fernando Serra (PhD in Sociol-ogy of Education – PT – Univer-sity Teacher, with a large experi-ence in the citizenship education), Adelaide Silva (Teachers Training Center Director – PT – Specialist in education, a large experience in Eu-

ropean projects), Sónia Sebastião (PhD Media Communication- PT – University teacher – Specialist in communication), Rui Baltazar (Master Degree in ICT in Edu-cation- PT – teacher in ICT and

specialist in multimedia trainer), Jean Perlein (Expert in Citizenship Education and Geography – FR- University Teacher and investigator in this area, specialist in education sciences, as been coordinator in eu-ropean projects), François Moullé (Expert in Geography FR – Univer-sity teacher – Specialist in education sciences), Nora Salvatori(Sharp Project Coordinator - IT – Co-ordinator of European projects, Coordinator of the Multimedia Center of the University of Pavia, specialist in cultural and linguistic).

ALMADA FORMAEscola Secundária Monte de Caparica Rua projectada V à Rua da Urraca 2825-105 Monte de Caparica - PORTUGAL

tel: +351 212 94 65 08e-mail: euro.almadaforma@gmail.com

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Using ICT Many ICT competences are re-Many ICT competences are re-quired in order to develop the various projects, even if their main objective is the realization of shared videos. Actually the attainment of this goal implies different stages of activities which allow the members of the work group to acquire or to improve their knowledges of the web, with particu-lar care about the new web 2.0, the “participatory web”. It consists in a number of online platforms and tools where users can collaborate and share opinions, experiences, media ... These platforms are very simple to use. This enables the project participants to acquire many competences directly by working, involved emotionally both as individual and as member of a group. Learning by interacting,

learning by searching, learning by sharing: all these processes allow members of the working group to participate actively not only to the construction of their own knowledge, but also to the formation of a collec-tive intelligence, where individuality

does not disappear, but is enhanced.

Lidia Falomo, Maria Teresa Di Palma, Maria Assunta Zanetti

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Participants in SHARP local

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About Mental Maps

Drawings, sketches, diagrams, charts, paintings, writing ... are different ways of making visible ideas, thoughts, and feelings. We use this language very of-ten, for example, in order to prepare a meeting or an interview, make the syn-thesis of a reading, to solve a problem, to draw up a plan of action. They are,

therefore, forms of communication, forms of sharing unique points of view. When the objective of the methodo-logical tool is to make visible the re-lationship between individual and space (physical, cultural, social), it is called a mental map and it emerg-es as a powerful pedagogical tool.

Due its characteristics, and like any methodological tool, should not be understood as the product itself, the end of the investigation, but as a means of communication that makes environmental experiences shareable. They are called mental maps, pre-cisely because they are spatial repre-sentations, derived from the human mind, which must be read as map-pings (= processes) and not merely as static products. The thought materi-alized through mental maps, is not a mirror reflection of the external reality. "The mental image may not

be limited to the role of a simple copy of perception" (Levy, 1997, p. 100).

Cláudia Vaz ISCSP – UTL - Portugal

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social-resources

through the eyes of photographer

SHARP project participants:CEM – Centro Educazione Media - Andrea Membretti, Caroline Maggipinto,Valentina Percivalle, Franca Bottaro, Cristina Bellavia, Lorenzo Spairani; Centre de Liaison de L'enseignement et des Médias D'information - Marguerite Cros, Gerard Colavecchio, Serge Laurent, Evelyne Bevort; Centro de Formação de Escolas do Concelho de Almada - Rui Baltazar, Ludgero Leote, Marco Serrano, Rosaria Marques, Adelaide Silva, Ruth Navas; ECA – Easy Communication Association - Zornica Gyurova, Bilyana Nikolova, Vania Ivanova, Miroslav Gaydoshik, Lyubomira Konstantinova, Tzvetanka Ribarova, Blagoy Tzitzelkov; ISCSP – UTL - Fernando Serra, Sonia Sebastiao, Claudia Vaz; Media Monitoring Agency - Nicoleta Fotiade, Ionut Codreanu, Laura Orlescu; Provincia di Pavia - Antonio Sacchi Università degli Studi di Pavia - Alessandra Majani, Eleonora Salvadori, Marco Porta, Daniela Scovenna, Lidia Falomo, Giampaolo Azzoni, Marco Caiani, Maria Teresa di Palma, Maria Assunta Zanetti; University of Artois - Christophe Duhaut, Sylvie Condette, Christophe Queva, Jean Perlein Francois Moullè; University of Nicosia - Tao Papaioannou, Christoforos Christoforou, George Sycallides, Holger Briel; Vytautas Magnus University - Sandra Kabišaitytė, Vaiva Zuzeviciute, Monika Miliusiene, Giedré Bagdonaité;

Partners37Eleonora Salvadori - Sharp Project Coordinator from Pavia, Italy:

We were really living together in a creative situation!“Today for learning we have to rely on a methodology which includes multimedia. This is extremely important. This is the most important message we could send. Learning for adults, learning for young people – it doesn’t matter – learning should be supported by multimedia and by all other digital technologies. All the students use multimedia tools but without giving an account of the effects of such utilisation. I mean they do not render an account that an important legislation and a lot of competences concerning this utilisation exist. I have to say that I learned much from the SHARP project because every partner had his particular point of view and different possibilities. We were really living together in a creative situation! And this was followed by many discussions. These were the moments more difficult to rule over but not less important for the advancement. So, I think that this common work should continue, should have prolongation”.

ADELAIDE SILVA, PORTUGAL: The SHARP project is a wonderful project. We are together in this project which is giving us the dimensions of cooperation and collaboration of citizenship, of searching for our identity, for our memory.

CHRISTOFOROS CHRISTOFOROU, CYPRUS: If the whole world becomes a family Europe should become a family which members have to be even closer one to another. Something changes, it is sure, and the change should be in me. Everyone should have his own perspective and to put himself in another one’s shoes. To have a better understanding of others in this multicultural world. Not only to respect the other but to put yourself in somebody else’s place, to work with the other. Why? For a better and peaceful future for everyone.

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SHARP NEWS PUBLISHED BY: EASY COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATIONEditors: Zornica Gyurova, Blagoy Tzitzelkov; Artist: Rosa Kolchagovahttp://www.sharpnetwork.eu/ http://www. eca-bg.eu/This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This newsletter reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

With the support of the LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME of the

European Union

SHARP video production The image is the medium25 min. Subtitles in English, 2012Produced by ECA/Easy Communica-tion Association, BulgariaScenario: Zornica GyurovaCameramen: Miroslav GaydoshikVideo editing: Bilyana NikolovaTranslation: Lubomira KonstantinovaDirector: Ivanka Ionkova

The documentary “The image is the medium” was created by Easy Com-munication Association as part of the SHARP project. The film presents the general idea of the project network and shows a lot of participants from seven European countries and cita-tions from their videos created during

last 3 years of common work. A lot of local workshops and international meetings were conducted with dif-ferent targets (students, teachers, adults, elderly people, and minori-ties) and with particular topics (cho-sen from the main themes of Sharp: identity, culture, territory). The film gives visual conception of the differ-

ent media production developed by SHARP partnership. Using ICT, mul-timedia, images, video as pedagogi-cal approach and the methodology of learning-by-doing is the essential center of this video presentation of the SHARP project as part of the Lifelong Learning Program of European Union.

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