Airis Week is a mass educational event intended for all bachelor students of Disc 2 of the Expertise Network (ENW) Communication, Media and Design (CMD) of the Artevelde University College. During a project week more than... five hundred students get started with all the skills they have already learned in the training. Also with generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) to create a “man-on-the-moon” there is a lot of experimentation.

Airis is a name based on Iris, who was the god of communication in Greek mythology. Etymologically, Iris comes from the ancient Greek verb Eeiroo, which means to speak/tell. Iris was the messenger. Iris was also the personification of the rainbow in Greek mythology. These meanings mean that Iris beautifully represents the knowledge domain that we cover with our expertise network. We place an A in front of the Iris, creating Airis [ajris]. That A refers to Artevelde.

Man on the moon refers to the speech of American President John. F. Kennedy addressing the population to set foot on the moon before the end of the 1960s.

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are difficult, for that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our forces and skills, because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win.” (John F. Kennedy, 1962)

John F Kennedy (1962)