Completed program of masterclasses and intensive lectures within the Digitcreshe project
In the period from November 19 to 22, 2024, the University “Mediterranean” Podgorica hosted several programs, created as a result of participation in the Digitcreshe project – “Digital Transformation in the Western Balkans Education”, one of the six projects of the Erasmus CBHE program, capacity building institution of higher education. The two-year Digitcresha project is managed by the University of Porto, while our university appears in the role of a partner, through the activities of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and the Faculty of Visual Arts, which is coordinated by Assoc. Dr. Tamara Jovović, Vice-Dean of FSJ.
The multi-day program conducted at the “Mediterranean” University in Podgorica included a series of masterclasses in which participants from abroad participated. professors of the Faculty of Visual Arts Biljana Vušović, MA, Balša Gobović and Marko Gošović, then professor Ema Jašarović from the Faculty of Architecture of the UCG and also professor Ramona Quattrini from the Polytechnic University of Ancona. The masterclasses were planned for students of the University “Mediterranean” community, but also open to the public and interested audiences, and related to new challenges in the creative industries, about which the professors, each from their own aspect, introduced the students to possible challenges.
On the mentioned dates, the University “Mediterranean” served as the host of a series of intensive programs dealing with the topics of interactive creativity in education, which brought together a significant number of experts, including professors from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts from Dortmund, Jörg Lensking. , Andreas Pawlitzki and Jennifer Tiede, including Dr. Nađa Žarić, from the Faculty of Information Technologies of our university. Through various aspects of the interpretation of creativity in education, from the art of conscious listening, through familiarization with software for image generation and doretelling, the basics of gamification and the personalization of e-learning and education, the intensive programs served to explain concepts applicable so far at universities across Europe.
Also, the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Montenegro, in the role of the Montenegrin partner in the project, hosted one of the lecturers of the University “Mediterranean” Podgorica, Nataša Kraljević, MA from the Faculty of Visual Arts, who spoke about creative industries in rural areas of Montenegro.
The Digitcreshe project is a two-year project whose completion is planned by April 2025. and which, through the implemented program, enabled both students and professors to familiarize themselves with the topics covered on this occasion from different aspects.
