Helsinki Award 2006
In December 2006, The Finnish Minister of Education and Science, Antti Kalliomäki, and European Commissioner, Ján Figel, presented the awards for projects supported under the Leonardo da Vinci programme. Ten projects, out of a total of around 2000, received the award for having successfully promoted the European goals° at grassroots level, three of which were awarded in the category ‘sectoral cooperation’ which included aluMATTER.
The European Commission commented the aluMATTER project as follows: “The creation of European inter-institutional cooperation (companies – educational institutions) for production of industrially relevant learning resources in the complex field of aluminium engineering and technology is an achievement of true sectoral cooperation. The project is also a best practice for the creation of e-learning modules incorporating valuable pedagogical approaches for interactive simulations of the processes in the industry.
Berlin Bronze Prize
In May 2007, alumatter gets bronze medal from German EU Presidency for an outstanding project promoting and supporting the LifeLong Learning EU policy. The Prize was presented to Jürgen Hirsch, Chairman of the EAA Education & Technology Committee and Christian Leroy, EAA Education, Technology & LCA Manager. Giving the award were Mrs Schavan, German Minister of Education and Research and Mr Ján Figel’, Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth. AluMATTER was one of the only 3 Leonardo da Vinci projects receiving an award.
