Martin Breindl (left) and Fine Art student Jussi Koitela having a portfolio sessionIn the middle of February Austrian curator Martin Breindl came to TAMK, Art and Media to see the portfolios of a group of fine art students, students of the specialization studies on photography and recently graduated artists in order to choose some to a show called Young Finnish Photography.

Raul Oreshkin and Külli Hansen on our snowy roof top gardenWe welcomed again visitors from the Estonian twin city of Tampere, Tartu. Külli Hansen and Raul Oreshkin, representatives of Tartu Centre for Creative Industries were guests of Creative Tampere for two days to learn about creative institutions in Tampere. Tampere UAS Finlayson campus with the School of Art and Media and the proAcademy were targets of the tour.

Written by Albert van der KooijArriving at the International Week smoke sauna evening 2008: Albert's colleague Adri Schokker, Albert van der Kooij, Interactive Cinema Doctor Chris Hales, lecturer Sohvi Sirkesalo and Head of Film and Television Programme Leena Mäkelä, TAMKMy first trip to Finland included a visit to Mindtrek, the Nordic digital media and business conference, focusing on social media & Web 2.0.

Mikko Keskiivari in Hagia SofiaX-OP Festival, Event of the border areas of Europe

This is the call:Welcome to the first edition of the inter-university open days DobleClick, hosted in the city of Vic (Barcelona, Spain), from the 16th to the 18th of March 2010. This event stems from the collaboration between students and professors.

Gunilla Burstedt, Director of the School of Film Directing of Gothenburg University and Poul Nesgaard, Principal of the

We have had a lot of interaction with the Utrecht School of Arts, but no formal agreement of staff and student exchange before. But soon we will have.On the last day of their our to Netherlands Leena Mäkelä and Cai Melakoski visited the Faculty of Art, Media and Technology in Hilversum and got familiar with the departments of media, game design and music technology.

The entrance to the university is stunning! You can't capture this enourmous plaza in one picture. The main auditorium in the center

Our International Week (May 3-7) and Tampere Art Factory (TAF) opening weekend May 7-9 will host many student and univeristy staff delegations from the Netherlands. TAMK School of Art heads of degree programmes Cai Melakoski and Leena Mäkelä visit our five Dutch partner schools this week. The International week is a central topic of the meetings.

Students of the special one term programme for exchange students Interactive Media Programme frequently visit Tampere to go to Sauna, to meet their friends and to go to Sauna, to visit School of Art and Media and to do Sauna and to visit good old pubs and to take a Sauna bath. If the visit/reunion is in winter, swimming in the hole in the ice is of course an integral part of the menu.

 Producer Kathleen Blumel, exhibition manager Ulla Jaskari, professor Brigit Richard, Head of the Degree Programme of Fine Art Juha Suonpää, curator Pekka Niskanen and artistic director Inke Arns inspect the exhibition plan

The second DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) project meeting was today and yesterday in Östra Grevie, Skåne, southern Sweden.The winter has been like in the good old times here as well. Yesterday we experienced a heavy snow storm. Good we had a working day and could stay indoors. Today it's bright sunshine, thats good, because I'm going to fly home tonight.

Online College (USA) has included our blog on their "100 Great Blogs for Art Students & Enthusiasts" selection. We are very happy and proud for this recognition and thank Online College for this expert's opinion.The selection has chapters like "Art History and Museums", "Art News", "By Artists" and "Medium Specific", our blog is one of the seven blogs under the title "Art Education".

Delegations from Inteli, Lisbon Portugal and Economic Development Agency, Klaipeda Lithuania visited Tampere University of Applied Sciences today. Both organisations are members of the European creativity Movement Creative Clusters.

Professor in Photo Art Walter Bergmoser from our partner Chung Ang University in South Korea paid a visit to Finland. He was invited by our Degree Programme in Fine Arts as a part of our exchange programme.He became familiar with the degree programme and gave lectures to our students. We also discussed future cooperation which will include a joint workshop, an exhibition and developing of international learning environments.

The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation will celebrate the Spanish EU presidency this spring by inviting the most innovative young talents to the greatest event of Internet and Digital Media ever, the Campus Party Europe in the Magic Box, Madrid April 15-18.

The joint study board of our joint masters programme with Salford University, MA in Screenwriting gathered this week at TAMK School of Art and Media in Tampere. At University of Salford the programme is arranged by the School of Media, Music & Performance.The MA in Screenwriting fourth edition application time will start in April and the course starts in the beginning of September in Tampere. The second semester will be in Manchester.

Two IMP 2005 students; Micaela Paiva and Ricardo Meneses from Portugal have visited Tampere again this week, yesterday they came to School of Art and Media. In Autumn 2005 they participated in the Interactive Media Programme (IMP), a special course for exchange students.

DETVET (Development of Educational Techniques in Vocational Education and Training) is a Leonardo da Vinci Programme funded partnership project which started August 2009 and will last until July 2011. Partners are from Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark, Czech Republic, Italy and Finland.

Leeuwarden video workshop from joonas tikkanen on Vimeo.Earlier we published an illustrated story by Veera Niemi about the Brick by Brick installation our student made together with Academy of Popculture students in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.Now we are happy to present a video by Joonas Tikkanen, which documents the trip and installation.