The Centre provides its competences and methods for actions that promote understanding of the threat posed by COVID 19 and the actions that society must take to protect citizens during a pandemic. This happens through a range of activities, both rapidly and acutely improvised and in planned partnerships with companies, authorities, organizations and institutions. 

Project start date: 1 March 2020
Project end date: Present (still running)

Project Mission: A little piece of art that illustrates how children and young people can perceive the corona if they are not part of an informed dialogue about the pandemic.

Artists: Christopher Sarow & Morten Thorning

Project Mission: The Department of Public Health highlighted a range of perspectives on mental health by involving young people in a new and active way in research. The young people were invited into the research process as "co-researchers" and "co-creators" of the knowledge relevant to their lives. The idea is that this way of working will lead to stronger results that give more value and meaning to the target audience in the end.

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Artists:
Peter Meldgaard
Cecilia Valdez
Johanna Aresvik
Marta Giuliani
Mathilde Landi
Ymir Arnason

Partners: The project "Data about you and the others" is supported by the Novo Nordisk Foundation and is carried out in collaboration between the Academy of Talented Young People| Midt, Department of Public Health (Aarhus University), Research Unit for General Practice, ScienceAtHome (Aarhus University), Science Museums at Aarhus University and The Animation Workshop/VIA University College.

Project Mission: The center has entered the project CORONAPP, a project and bottom-up initiative of a number of researchers and entrepreneurs who want to engage the public in the development of data and knowledge on how to limit the harmful effects of Corona virus and future pandemics.

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Partners: The project is a collaboration with Aarhus University, Department of Public Health, Committee for Health Education, Center for Digital Education and Design, Department of Future Research, Rigshospitalet, Hvidovre Hospital, University of Southern Denmark, Center for Digital Creativity, Kite Invent, Institute of Technology, Aalborg University, University of Bergen.

Project Mission: With the project Call-To-Corona, the center collects illustrations, animation films and visual productions from students and alumni from animation, computer graphics and graphic storytelling courses as well as local creative companies. Participants voluntarily produce illustrations, snapshots and sketches based on their own experiences, feelings, situations and observations during the Corona crisis. The aim is to create situational images and graphic expressions about life with Corona close to the body, which responds to the crisis and to evidence of posterity.

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Partners: The project cooperates with Viborg Animation Strategy and the UNESCO National Commission in Denmark.

Project Mission: The centre is a part of the project Lockdown in DK – a new national film project where children tell Danish story about the corona crisis seen from their own perspective. The aim is to collect films and animations and produce a major documentary about life during the corona crisis from the perspective of children and young people. The documentary will premiere during the BUSTER Film Festival in Copenhagen in September 2020, will be part of the Viborg Animation Festival 2020 and will subsequently become part of the National Museum's collection.

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Partners: BUSTER Film Festival is behind the project in collaboration with Animok Animation Festival (VAF), as well as the National Museum, Danmarks Radio, FilmFyn, Edit-24 and others