The fourth implementation of the joint MA in Screenwriting Programme of TAMK University of Applied Sciences and Salford University started today.Fihteen students form UK, Czech Republic and Finland will learn film scripting this autumn in Tampere, next spring in Manchester. There will additionally be distance learning and project next summer and autumn. Salford University will finally give the Master's certificate.

New Zealander Paul Pivec and Slovenian Maja Pivec are the main organisers of the Summer SchoolDemola will this week be the venue for the Engage Game Design Summer School. The  international Summer School will tackle issues related to game design as well as how to embed curricular topics in the game design.

TAMK Finlayson Campus from backFinlayson Campus is more international than ever this autumn. New nationalities are present among Degree Programme in Media students, we welcome 21 exchange students (new record), and MA in Screenwriting hosts five international students.Our first international event will be the Engage Learning Games Summer School August 30 to September 3.

Actor Raimo Grönberg, Outi Hartikainen and Hannu Koivuranta in ActionHaving received a 5000 euro production grant from the Languages Through Lenses 2010 -shortfilm competition "Connection Lost" went under production on the night of 2nd and 3rd of July. The film is directed by Outi Hartikainen and found its idyllic location in Lempäälä near Tampere.

Demola, Finlayson behind the taf (Tampere Art Factory) bannerThe Summer School for Students and Young Designers is to be held in Tampere, Finland, from 30th of August till 3rd of September in 2010 at the DEMOLA Centre of Innovation. The Engage Summer school will tackle issues related to game design as well as how to embed curricular topics in the game design. The summer school (3 ECTS) will accommodate between 15 – 25 international students and game designers.

Deadline of submissions July 30

Leticia and Laura preparing the smart screen for their Interactive Film ShowWhen you come from Spain, Finland sounds far away… and sometimes, Tampere doesn’t even sound. “Where have you been those five months? – people now asks to us – Tampere – we answer – Oh… great… emmmm… good place…”.

Deadline for World Summit Youth Award submissions is already on Sunday. Online Projects can be entered in one of the six categories, which are directly linked to the eight UN Millennium Goals. Winners will be celebrated in New York in autumn. So if you know any project by people under 30 promoting a better world, ask the producers to register online now.The categories:

Dr. Birgit Richard and Dr. Jutta Zaremba from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main arrived yesterday to Tampere for a two day visit at TAMK hosted by our Degree Programme in Fine Art.There are two main reasons for the visit;

Pertti Näränen (TAMK) and Artur Lugmayr (TUT), two of the organisers and chairsThe eight edition of the annual conference  on Interactive TV & Video EuroITV started today with the pre-conference workshop day in the premises of TAMK School of Art and Media in the Finlayson.area. The theme of the conference is “web.sharing.TV.content”, reflecting the increasing connections between TV and web services.

Redlynx got the Best Nordic Game AwardOn Monday 26th of April, a large group of students from Tampere took a train to Turku. The destination was the annual Nordic Game conference in Malmö, Sweden and the students were from TAMK and Score Game Development Club.

Andrea Zapata Girau final thesis work trailerThe international seminar "How Universities give students a kick to go global?" was kicked off in Demola by Jukka Siltanen and Taru Söderlund. Jukka invited the audience to ponder: "What can I learn?" and "How is it important to me personally?"As Jukka pointed out, most importantly, TAF seminar is a day to celebrate TAMK students and their achievements! The speakers spoke of art and internationalism from different perspectives.

TAMK is WSYA partner since 2008. WSYA 2010 was launched yesterday, this is the press release: The World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) invites once again young designers, e-content creators, writers and bloggers from around the world to enter their online-projects in an international multimedia competition: using internet and mobiles to put the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into Action!

The Moogo.com team (Finland) was last year awarded with The Best Business Potential Award, from left to right Antti Ala-Ilkka, Mikko Nurminen, Kimmo PekariHonouring Europe's most innovative and creative multimedia projects and the young designers behind them.Call for Entries is now open!This year, in addition to honouring Europe's best young talents in 9 categories, the EUROPRIX presents 3 Special Awards!

Idea, concept, artistic direction: Pekka NiskanenThe show “Promoting Changes” explores the diverse ways in which mediated representations function in the construction of identity politics.The show comprises of four different topics – activism, communities, fashion and the wild. The works in the show overlap with each other as well as break these artificially constructed boundaries.

MA in Screenwriting graduation seremony in Manchester 2009: Laura Arpalahti, Kaisa Kuikkaniemi, Pirjo Ojala and Vera Kiiskinen MA in Screenwriting is a joint masters programme arranged by University of Salford (Manchester, UK) and Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK).

Youth from Härmälä group home and Schoool of Art and Media  students in a festival against racism in Tampere 21 March at Kuusela Centre for SeniorsThe community art project being made for Europe’s Capital of Culture year 2010 exhibition in Dortmund has received a grant from Arts Council of Finland and R&D grant from AVEK (The Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture).

The directional debut of Jussi Sandhu and Ville Hakonen, "Whistle While You Work", has been chosen to the international competition of the 13th Brussels short film festival (29.4-9.5). It's nominated with 53 films from around the world and is one of the two Finnish films competing this year.

Outi Hartikainen directs actor Pertti Hokkanen at the demo video shootsThe film competition Languages Through Lenses 2010 organized by European Commission, ELIA in partnership with PRIX EUROPA and in cooperation with CILECT brought victory to "Connection Lost", a short film script written by Hannu Koivuranta and Outi Hartikainen.

The result of the workshop will be experienced at TAF Party May 7Nou&Herkauw is a collective of artists and students who work in several disciplines such as media art, graphic design, illustration, and theatre. In collaboration with students of the Academy for Popculture they develop all kinds of interactive VJ performances for cultural events and dance events through out Holland.