Tomaz Amon
President of Center for scientific visualization (CSV).
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Website: | http://www.bioanim.com |
| Skills: | Business, Computer Engineering, Design, Editing, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Flash, French, German, Graphic design, HTML / CSS, Languages, Leadership, Negotiation, Recruitment, Software Engineering, Web design, Web Development, Writing |
| Location: | Ljubljana |
| Groups: | Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting for my startup |
| Tags: | algae growing, modern education, modern food production, web3d |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Amnim, center for scientific visualization (CSV), Ljubljana |
| Position: | President |
| Description: | Amnim, center for scientific visualization (CSV), Ljubljana produces scientific and educational software projects containing animations in virtual reality about the structure and function of the cell, tissue, human body and other topics from the field of biology or medicine. The software package "Cell-Tissue-Human Body" recognized the Ministry of Education of Slovenia as an official educational tool in slovene schools. Its english version can be seen on the site www.bioanim.com It has been selected for inclusion in the Awesome Library, a collection of the top 5% of sites in the field of K-12 education and nominated for the Stockholm challenge award. |
| Employer: | Amnim, center for scientific visualization (CSV), Ljubljana |
| Position: | President |
| Description: | Some of CSV projects:
1986-1996 Design and programming of the Neuro Event Manager – a computer program for the analysis of the electrophysiological data (1MB source code, more than 200 batch commands). 1996-2000 Design and programming of the computer visualizations of the biological structures and functions 1996-97 Multimedial software package "Electrical phenomena in the living cell" supported by Ministry of Education of Slovenia and acknowledged as an official educational tool in slovene schools. 1998 Sense organs – educational software package. Supported by Ministry of Education of Slovenia and acknowledged as an official educational tool in slovene schools 1999 Systems of Organs I. and Cell-Tissue-Human Body. Both Educational software packages were supported by Ministry of Education of Slovenia and acknowledged as an official educational tool in slovene schools. 1999 Tomaz Amon joins the IST project Web-based Standard Educational Tools(WebSET, IST-1999-10632)as a member of the UMA (SME company) team. The goal of the WebSET project is to develop and use advanced Web-based technologies to implement innovative cost-effective learning tools that can be run on any workstation platform including a standard PC of average capacity. 2000 The software package "Cell-Tissue-Human Body" has been selected for inclusion in the Awesome Library, a collection of the top 5% of sites in the field of K-12 education. 2002 CSV becomes a partner in the IST project (IST-2001-34204) named School LABoratory anticipating FUTURE needs of European Youth (LAB@FUTURE). LAB@FUTURE will experiment Social Constructivism, in combination and dialogue with activity theory, focusing on expansive learning, within a mixed and augmented realities set-up, enabling mobile eLearning. Experiments involve laboratory teaching for the disciplines of Science (Fluid Dynamics), Mathematics (Geometry: developing spatial skills), and Arts & Humanities (Environmental awareness, Educational walks, visits and seminars). LAB@FUTURE will use real and virtualized objects for educational purposes 2002 CSV becomes a partner in the Socrates - Minerva project named "LearningFolders (LeFo) "- open source online educational publishing and support for primary schools. (Minerva 100152-CP-1-2002-1-EE-MINERVA-M) |
| Employer: | Amnim, center for scientific visualization (CSV), Ljubljana |
| Position: | President |
| Description: | Some of CSV projects:
2003 Tomaz Amon becomes a member in the research group LMSE - Laboratory of Microsensor Structures and Electronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana 2004 CSV becomes a partner in the Socrates - Minerva project Radiation Games in Virtual Reality (116947-CP-1-2004-1-SI-MINERVA-M) 2005 CSV becomes a partner in the IST project Cinema and Science (CISCI) 6th Framework, Contract.Nr.FP6-511114 2005 CSV becomes a partner in the Leonardo project Improving Nascent Skills to Produce Interactive Resources for Education (INSPIRE), Leonardo da Vinci Community action programme on vocational training Procedure B (Second phase: 2000 –2006) PILOT PROJECTS, LANGUAGE COMPETENCES, TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS,AGREEMENT n° 2005 -UK/05/B/F/PP-162_305. 2006 The Silk Route Agreement established with CSV as one of its partners. International Association for the Advanced Use of Information and Communication Technology in Learning (also called the Silk Route Agreement) is a non-governmental, academic organization dedicated to the advanced research of the theory, practice and quality of learning and teaching with the help of ICT. The member states are Germany (coordinator), China, Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Slovenia (CSV), USA, Spain… www.eduanim.com/silkroute 2008 CSV becomes a partner in the project Scenario Development for Lifelong Learning in 3D multi-user environments (LLL3D). LLL3D aims to improve the quality of lifelong learning by introducing learning scenarios for a new ICT-based learning platform to the community of educators in Lifelong Learning in Europe, promotes high performance in teaching and learning by promoting an pedagogical approach, which is able to integrate several different pedagogies available up to now only singular using different web-based learning environments, and develops innovative approaches of Lifelong Learning in Europe within a European dimension and connexion of different target-group-related communities in the field. |
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Rade Glomazic
Currently a Doctoral candidate in Political science at the European Center for Peace and Development of the UN University of Peace. Have over ten years of professional experience working in socio-economic development activities and int. cooperation