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ABOUT US ABOUT DA VINCI MEDIA GmbH DA VINCI MEDIA GmbH is an independent media group dedicated to providing education in an entertaining way be it with high-quality on-air and on-demand programming to viewers, educational application or magazine. Founded in 2007 by Ferdinand Habsburg, Da Vinci Media GmbH maintains excellence in its educational broadcast streams from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Da Vinci Media GmbH’s premier broadcast channel, Da Vinci Learning, has become part of the daily routine in more than 35 countries around the world. First launched in Central Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine, Da Vinci Learning now broadcasts in dozens of countries on 3 continents. Most importantly, Da Vinci Learning strives to make top-quality educational programming accessible by providing most viewers with localised versions of all their favourite programmes.
ABOUT DA VINCI LEARNING For curious minds of all ages, Da Vinci Learning television provides high-quality, fascinating & inspiring learning experiences. Taking a leaf from Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook, our mission is to feed the human thirst for knowledge and discovery through easy access to entertaining, thought-provoking, and enlightening multimedia. Our carefully selected programme schedules spark curiosity in the world around us through award-winning educational shows and international documentaries on topics like nature, science, technology, history and ancient civilisations. Life-long learning with Da Vinci Learning is an entertaining and imaginative adventure that encourages everybody to find out more and get excited about science and art.
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ABOUT US FUN AND EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE
Da Vinci Learning television is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of the whole family: children, parents and adults. We are committed to offering programmes that are inviting to audiences of all ages, from our littlest geniuses to the greatest grandparents. Moreover, the channel´s selective programme criteria guarantees engaging, non-violent content also suitable for young children. If you are looking for the additional, easy to comprehend presentation of school topics, you will find Da Vinci Learning an educational tool that makes your young forget about the process of learning and do it in a seamless way. At Da Vinci Learning, mornings and early afternoons are dedicated to children, the late afternoons and early evenings belong to the whole family, and the evenings entertain and inform adults! Throughout the day, Da Vinci Learning creates an environment where the family members can watch, learn and discuss together. Viewing interesting, fun, educational shows about the world around us stimulates discussion among family members and enhances the understanding of content. Da Vinci Learning makes knowledge TV an exciting and inspiring event! Why? Because learning shouldn´t have an age limit!
OUR SHOWS Playful characters help our youngest viewers build essential skills in all sorts of fields like maths, science, biology, geography, history. Engrossing documentaries make the most complicated topics accessible to anyone. Our family series travel through time and around the globe, capturing imaginations. Adults can enjoy evenings when we take a look inside the most interesting stories from technology, biographies of big minds, scientific highlights, known universities, events that shaped our belief and just about anything you always wanted to know. Da Vinci Learning creates an environment where every member of the family finds the opportunity for personal growth.
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Some of our most popular TV shows Kids 6 to 12 years
Finger Tips An award-winning children’s factual entertainment show with a fresh and innovative approach to “make-and-do�. It encourages children to use their imagination and express themselves creatively across an expansive range of activities. The presenters, Stephen Mulhern and Fearne Cotton bring energy and enthusiasm to this creative world.
SciQ An exciting series for kids aged 8 to12 that introduces science through adventure presenting a wide range of topics guaranteed to capture the imagination of kids. Who can resist learning more about the future of living underwater? Ever wondered how the magic of movie making works? Or what it takes for a detective to investigate a crime scene? These and other questions will be researched, investigated and answered by our energetic young explorers Andrew and Paula.
Time Compass With its innovative animation style, Time Compass causes children and adults alike to fall in love with history. Significant events from across the globe and throughout the ages are portrayed in an easily-digestible, kid-friendly way. Laugh your way through time travel, rediscovering the great feats of Islam, Ancient Egypt, Classical Greece, Incas, Aztecs, Imperial Rome, Ancient China, India and others.
Once Upon a Time... Planet Earth An animated series that both older and younger viewers can enjoy. Maestro has taken viewers through time, space and even the human body. Now, in the final installment of the animated educational series, viewers discover the planet we call home, and find out what we can do to save it for future generations. Our young heroes are now aged 13 and 14 years and will be confronted during the 26 episodes to problems related to global warming, pollution, drought, decrease of energies' resources and poverty.
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Some of our most popular TV shows Family
James May´s Big Ideas James takes us on a journey with different vehicles that are a little bit different to the usual Top Gear models. These include the aerocar (the legendary flying car from the 1950’s); the Russian ekranoplan and a rocket pack. Robots, cyborgs, bionic men...we've seen them all in the movies, but are they becoming a reality? James explores the fusion of man and machine with a female Robocop and bionic implants. Is resistance futile?
The Story of Electricity Presented by Professor Jim Al-Khalili we reveal how electricity not only powers our lives, but underpins every aspect of technological advancement. He discusses how a diverse collection of people learned to create, store and move electricity, not only for heating and lighting, but also to convey information over vast distances. It allowed almost instantaneous communication across the seas and through the air, to connect people across the world in ways unimagined before.
In The Footsteps of Tintin This documentary series sets out on a journey of discovery in the footsteps of one of the 20th century's greatest globe-trotters. Using Tintin's narrative leads and devices it creates a unique vision of each country explored, from Peru to Scotland, from Morocco to Tibet.
Chasing Sleep A groundbreaking medical series that will make a sleep guru out of you. On average, we spend one third of our lives in slumber land, however, we know surprisingly little about it. Why do we need to sleep? Why is sleep so hard to get for some, and how does that affect everything from our performance to our income?
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Some of our most popular TV shows Adults
7 Wonders of the Microbe World Microbes outnumber all other species on Earth and make up most living matter. But what exactly is a microbe? From the Black Death to life on Mars, hosts Paula and Charles take you on a journey to discover the big impact of tiny microbes.
What the Industrial Revolution... ...Did For Us explores different historical aspects of how the industrialisation in Great Britain and other countries affected the world. Topics such as how the rapid urbanisation in the 19th century changed society structure, how the new technology affected both modern medicine and warfare are on the programme in this fascinating and educational series.
How To Build All of the most powerful machines with the most advanced capabilities couldn’t be built without a very basic tool - the human hand. From satellites to nuclear submarines and jet engines, uncover the engineering secrets to building tomorrow’s technologies.
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ONLINE WORLD WEBSITES Da Vinci Learning online is a world of endless activities for adults and children: experiments one can do at home, crafts that can be created alone or in a family circle, games played or quizzes taken. Parent´s Corner includes many ideas on how to make the little time families spend together true quality time. Tips that help parents to be more confident with their children in front of computers or TV sets or how to arouse a child’s curiosity are just a couple of suggestions. Stepping into an elevator and exploring nature, the human body, culture, technology and space explains more about the world around us.
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DR. WISE Like the children’s website, the app “Where is dr. Wise” offers fun and knowledge on various topics: nature, the human body, culture, technology and space. An experiments book is integrated into the application and related to each level. It offers safe “do it yourself” experiments for children to do at home. The app is available in English, Polish and Turkish languages in the App Store.
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CONTACTS
At Da Vinci Learning we are aware of the importance of the people behind the channel. Parents in our team understand what children look for, how they respond to their environment and what sort of presentation of topics is useful in certain periods of childhood. Specialists with years of working experience travel around the world to find the most suitable content for our viewers. This is why adults too can enjoy the quality stories of just about any topic of their interest. Cultural and national diversity of our team members results in better understanding of local needs. The “pleasure to learn� becomes obvious not only for our viewers - making sure kids, adults and parents learn more and grow personally with Da Vinci Learning contributes to a better quality of life for each member of our team.
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Da Vinci Media GmbH Mehringdamm 55, 10961 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 (0)30 4050 468-0 - Fax +49 (0)30 4050 468-16 Mail: info@davincitv.net www.da-vinci-learning.com