Jury and Prizes

The EDIT2014 event has brought together a number of highly-skilled individuals as jury members to assess video submissions. There will be two juries: one in Finland and one in Austria/Germany

The Finnish jury will be made up of the following 4 members:

 

Jussi Haukkamaa

Jussi works as a head of the Degree Programme in Media Communication within the School of Media and Performing Arts at the Oulu University of Applied Sciences. He has professional experience in digital media, marketing communications and media production education.

 

Essi Vuopala
Essi Vuopala (PhD) is a university lecturer in the Learning and Educational Technology Research Unit (LET) in the Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Finland. Her research interest deals with computer-supported collaborative learning and technology-enhanced learning, especially from the view point of social interaction and learning skills.

Jukka Savilampi 

Jukka has worked as coordinator, educator and content provider in pedagogical multimedia productions since 2001 (years 2001-2009 in Teaching Development Unit) at the University of Oulu. He has also produced several pedagogical videos, short films and music videos.

Mauri Laakso

Mauri is a teacher and teacher trainer specializing in gamification and work well-being. He is an expert of curiosity and is a big fan of inquiry learning and phenomenology. Currently, he is an educational consultant and creator of the blog: pelipeda.ning.com/

The Austrian/German jury will be made up of the following 4 members:

Karin Pils

Karin is responible for Youth Film Education at the Austrian Education Group (an organization for media education and media centre for schools). In this role, she visits festivals and selects films for use in Austrian primary and secondary level 1 schools. She also produces educational materials accompaning selected films for their film library.

 

Michaela Grininger

Michaela is currantly a student at the University of Education in Upper Austria studying to become a secondary school teacher in German and History. She has a previous degree in Theatre, Film and Media Science from the University of Vienna, so she is interested in the connection between film and education. "Life is like a film… but hopefully with more than one climax".

 

Markus Vorauer
Markus is a film historian, author, producer and translater of film science publications, film history and children- and youth literature. He is coordinator of the Film Festival „Der Neue Heimatfilm“, Vice-Head of the Board for Communicative Cinema Culture, member in the Austrian Society of Semiology, and President of the „Filmring der Jugend“ (Young Peoples Film Association).

Petra Bauer

Petra is an assistant professor and member of the work group on media education at the Educational Institute at the Johannes Gutenberg-University in Mainz, Germany.

The evaluation process will involve juries considering submissions from their respective regions using the video evaluation criteria. The final winner of the challenge will be mutually agreed upon by both juries.

Prizes

Awards will be given for the following categories:

• Best overall video

Honourable mentions

• Best educational video
• Best technical video
• Best creative video
• People's choice (online voting will be available during the Nov 21 screening)

The winning team will receive a 600 Euro gift certificate to be shared among the team.

The four teams with honourable mention will receive a 150 Euro gift certificate to be shared between their team.