[Nettime-bold] Multimedia Camp in Romania Press release

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PRESS RELEASE

International Multimedia Camp in Baia Mare

16^th – 25^th July, 2001

Over seventy participants and trainers coming from eight different countries attended the second International Multimedia Camp organized by the Mihail Eminescu National College at Baia Mare. Participants from Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Moldova met together to have Multimedia Education by trainers coming from Malta, USA, Turkey, Israel, Bulgaria and Macedonia. Prof. Mariana Gabriela Hudrea and her team have successfully organized this International Camp for the second consecutive year.

This International Multimedia Camp had its official opening at the County Council Hall on Monday the 16^th July, whilst the Mayor of Baia Mare met all the participants and trainers the day after at the City Hall. The Mayor of Baia Mare expressed his gratitude for having such Multimedia camps organized in Baia Mare. Previously to the Mayor’s meeting, all the trainers, coming from seven different countries were introduced to the participants. Following the Mayor’s speech several representatives of different NGO’s made their presentations to the public and representatives of the media present for this occasion. In the afternoon CISCO trainers gave Multimedia aided presentations about their training programs.

As from Wednesday 18^th onwards, the participants started attending their workshops. There were five different workshops which all the participants attended on a roster basis. Susy Calvert from USA and Karen Eini presented to the participants their “Monsters” Project, a project which enhances communication through the use of picture drawing with the computer. The “Friends and Flags” project was presented by Karen Eini. Carmelo Polidano from Malta worked with the participants on his “Personal Skills” programme, mainly based on psychological theories on communication skills and other interpersonal and interpersonal skills. Moreover, a Cultural evening on Malta was also presented by Carmelo Polidano on Wednesday the 18^th July. Dimitar Tashkov from Bulgaria presented workshops on “Self-Development”; whilst Halil Ibrahim Bulbul and Ihsan Batmaz met the participants during their “IT training” workshops. Stefan from Bulgaria and Lirim from Macedonia helped the participants on “Internet Surfing Techniques”. It was of great satisfaction for the organizers that it was the first time that nothing less that 28 Romanian teachers have attended for such a Multimedia Course!

The Camp provided the participants and trainers with cultural sightseeing tours to the Magosa Lake, the Museum of Mineralogy and to the Maramures County over the weekend break. Such trips were appreciated by all the participants.

Scientific evaluation for this Multimedia International Camp shows that over 90% the participants were satisfied with the training provided and considered it as an important milestone both in their career as well as in their personal life! It seems that the psychological workshops presented by Carmelo Polidano from Malta ended up to be the most popular with the participants, whilst the “Monsters” Project presented by Susy Calvert from USA and Karen Eini from Israel was also highly rated. The absolutely positive feedback by the participants at the end of the course is very encouraging for organizing similar camps in the future. More information, including pictures, about this International Multimedia Camp in Baia Mare can be obtained by visiting the website: www.eminescu.multinet.ro/mmcamp/index.html