The Michelangelo Project: Sharing National Fine Arts

5th November 2008

Plans for the Teachers Virtual Meetings

The project partnership is now trying to identify common dates to organize the teachers transnational virtual meetings. The project partners are also making proposals for a suitable software to be used for these meetings. All proposals are being made via the project forum.

11th October 2008

Feedbacks on the Training Courses

The project partners are now sharing their views and providing each other with feedbacks on the draft material for the training courses each of them produced. This is taking place on line on the project forum.

9th September 2008

Creation of the training courses

The project partners are currently working for the creation of the online training courses about national art including the selected artists and artworks. A total of 6 online training courses will be therefore produced. The theme of the online training courses has been chosen by the partner institutions and is being developed according to a common electronic format.

26th July 2008

Research on National Fine Arts

The secondary schools, coordinated by the partner organizations, uploaded on the Michelangelo portal the results of a detailed reseach activity carried out on the national artists and artworks. The research carried out produced a contextualisation of the artists and art works in the historical framework, the interpretation of the artistic work and the collection of relevant documents related to the selected masterpieces.The presentation of this research work is now available under the "Artists and Artworks section".

22nd June 2008

2nd partners meeting in Carlisle

The 2nd partners meeting took place in Carlisle (UK), on the 19th & 20th June, 2008. The partners presented a detailed description of the project activities carried out and of the objectives achieved. The Michelangelo portal was presented and its features illustrated to the partners. During the meeting the future work packages were explained in details and a working plan established. The meeting was also an opportunity for the partnership to exchange views and experiences on art teaching strategies.

18th May 2008

Reviewing web based material on Fine Arts

The schools coordinated by the project partners are currently selecting and reviewing relevant web based material for the teaching of national arts. The are now about 80 reviews of web based material for art teaching available on the Michelangelo Portal.

10th April 2008

Dissemination Initiatives

The Bulgarian partner, Zinev Art Technologies, participated in an important school conference organized by the City of Yambol. Several Bulgarian schools were involved in the event as were the local media. Zinev Art Technologies presented the Michelangelo project, its on going activities and in progress results to the audience. A lot of interest was expressed for the project.

18th March 2008

Selection of National Artists and Artworks

The project partners are currently making a research on the most representative national artists or artworks at national level in the last 10 centuries. The lists of the Italian, English, German and Bulgarian artists are now available on the project portal.

20th February 2008

Involvement of Schools

Each partner carried out an activity of promotion of the project with the national schools. So far, eight Bulgarian schools, five Italian schools and five German schools were officially involved in the project. The deadline for the identification of the schools for all partners is the end of this month.

17th-18th January 2008

Michelangelo Kick Off Meeting

The Kick Off meeting took place in Florence, on the 11th & 12th December, 2006. Elisabetta Delle Donne, the project coordinator, presented the partners with a detailed description of the project and the activities that would be carried out. The meeting was also an opportunity for the partners to get to know each other and to discuss all details related to the project activities. At the end of the meeting all the partners had a clear view of the project and its development.