Tangram - Agenzia di Educazione Permanente a Merano

 Educazione Permanente - Onlus
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Educational Agency
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Tangram in Merano


Tangram is a permanent educational agency officially recognised and supported by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. The quality of this service is guaranteed thanks to 20 years of experience obtained in this field. Tangram has also participated in various national and European projects on continuous education and on the use of new technological applications in adult education. A2:

The multimedia rooms are in welcoming surroundings, with over 24 computers connected to the internet via wide-band Hdsl (2 mega-bytes per second). Professional scanners, both laser and colour printers and surround-sound speakers are also available for use.


The agency organizes:
- ECDL computer courses and courses for internet use.
- Conferences on the anthroplology and history of Alto Adige.
- Courses on arts and crafts, on Tyrolean cuisine and issues relating to health.
- German lessons for pre-school children.
- Courses using distance learning (literature, creating web pages, languages, etc) from the internet site www.telecorsi.it , learning either independently or with the participation of a teacher in the form of Tele-learning.


Map from Merano
Map from Merano
The agency runs:
- an electronic library which can be consulted at www.tangram.it. There are over 1100 files dedicated to the history, the traditions and the customs of the three linguistic groups resident in the Province of Bolzano.

- the web site www.lamummia.it, dedicated to the Neolithic Ages in the Alps and to the last days in the life of the Similaun Man. Here you will find rich historical documentation and the interactive story written in three languages "The mystery of the Ice Man", which has been highly successful amongst lovers of history and which is also now available in CD-ROM format.

On-line interactive story
An interactive journey in the neolithic Age to discovery the last days in the life of The Similaun Man, the famous mummy found in ice in 1992.



Three floors of possibilites.

Three floors for education, culture and free-time

First floor: Freelearning The ideal place to learn to use a PC without time or progamme constraints and with the temporary help of a tutor. Twelve computers connected to the Internet via wide-band (2 M/bytes per second), scanners, DVD players, re-writers, colour, laser and black and white printers complete the list of equipment.






Mezzanine: The "Krea" studio is set up for either DVD screenings with surround sound or for running particular conferences using multimedia facilities.





Second floor: ECDL test centre Eleven computers, all connected to the Internet via wide-band, plotters, DVD re-writer and printers allow the realization of particular initiatives such as courses on video editing, video conferences on the Internet, or work using computer graphics programmes.