|
KOSOVISION CONTEST is an educational project that
was started in September 2008 and is expected to be
finalized in May 2011 and which is implemented in
the form of a national competition broadcasted by
the media. The concept for this project was
developed by the Education University of Zurich, and
was first implemented in cooperation with KFOR in
2007 in the Prizren Region. Students and teachers of
the fifth grades in Kosovo participate in this
project dealing with the present and future of
Kosovo.
The project is being implemented in close
cooperation between the Ministry of Education,
Science, and Technology, the Kosova Education
Centre, and the Radio Television of Kosovo.
The Project is being funded by:
-
DEZA, Department for Development and
Cooperation;
-
Lottery Funds of the Canton of Zurich;
-
Private Foundations;
-
Private persons and enterprises from Diaspora;
-
University of Education, Zurich
Project objectives and activities
This
project enables children to contribute to the future
of their country by participating in the project.
They are encouraged to express their visions and
become active members of the society.
Regarding its content, the project draws its topics
from their everyday life such as education,
infrastructure and environment, economy and
coexistence in Kosovo.
The project targets all children attending grade
five (age 11 and 12) coming from all ethnic groups
(Albanian, Bosnian, Gorani, Roma, Serb, and
Turkish). The project makes an impact also on other
groups, such as: grade five teachers, school
management, parents, and the wider population.
Project activities are the following:
1. Workshops – Together with their students, the
teaching staff organized workshops on the present
and future of Kosovo.
2. Regional evaluation and selection of winners –
Students’ works were evaluated in seven regions:
Prishtina, Peja, Gjakova, Prizren, Mitrovica, Gjilan
and Ferizaj). After the evaluation, winners were
selected and announced.
3. Awards – the 135 best works from all regions of
Kosovo have been awarded (50 in 2008 and 85 in
2009). The entire ceremony was broadcasted by the
media.
4. Exhibition – An exhibition with over 1200 works
of students from all classes participating in the
project. The exhibition remained open for five days
in the row for people interested to see it.
5. Implementation of projects – in this phase ideas
are being implemented which came from children’s
workshops. Only winning classes are participating in
this phase of implementation. The projects are
guided and supported by the teachers. Meetings with
teachers are organized in which they describe every
project and a project plan.
6. Distribution of awards – the phase after the
project implementation is their evaluation. This
phase is supervised and evaluated by evaluation
teams in all regions of Kosovo. The evaluation will
result in a number of winning projects which will be
awarded for the work done. The whole process is
covered by the media.
7. Honouring – After all activities foreseen in the
project proposal have been completed, the winning
classes are visited by a delegation to honour the
work done by these classes.
The first project cycle was implemented
between September 2008 and May 2009 with all
activities taking place as planned. In August 2009,
the second project cycle started being implemented
and below are given its main achievements:
Workshops – The teaching staff and students have
organized joint workshops discussing the present and
the future of Kosovo, based on topics given in the
project. Workshops lasted for nine weeks with
students designing posters on the topic of the
future. Therein, in the form of a project idea, they
described the contribution that their class could
give for the implementation of their project. In
total, 1200 grade five classes from all over Kosovo
participated in the project.
Regional evaluation and announcement of winners –
Students’ works were evaluated in seven regions of
Kosovo (Prishtina, Peja, Gjakova, Prizren, Mitrovica,
Gjilan and Ferizaj) based on the criteria given by
project authors. Evaluations were done by regional
evaluation teams consisting of three to five
persons. These evaluators belonged to various
profiles, such as: painters, school managers,
education officers and teachers. After the
evaluation of works, winners were announced in every
region of Kosovo. Thus, 85 classes have been
selected which will continue competing in the second
phase.
Awarding of best works – 85 best creations from all
regions of Kosovo were awarded. Apart from this,
every class participating in the project received a
certificate showing the creative work of the
children participating in the competition. The
entire ceremony was covered by the Kosovo Radio and
Television with another three random winners drawn
at the level of Kosovo. They are: “Naim Frashëri”
school, Prishtina – and the V4 class with their
teacher Remzije Baraku, “Ruzhdi Xhyliqi” school,
Marali-Malishevë – class V with their teacher
Skender Paqarizi, “Trepça” school, from Banja e
Pejës – V1 class with their teacher Mehrije
Buleshkaj-Haxhijaj. The random winners got an
opportunity to award their students with a short
winter holiday.
The exhibition – An exhibition of creations
of all participating classes in the project was
organized in Prishtina. The exhibition remained open
for five days in a row. The huge number of visitors,
most of them children, made them curious to engage
again in projects similar to that of KOSOVISION
CONTEST.
Twelve persons engaged to help in the project
implementation. The number of persons (one or two)
engaged in the region depended on the number of
grades five in schools of a given region. These
persons gave a remarkable contribution for the
successful project implementation.
For
more information visit:
http://www.kosovision.org/
|
