Training
MEDIA Training supports the creation of pan-European training networks to help professionals in the audiovisual industry enhance their competence in the international market. These networks provide close collaboration and exchange of know-how between different partners active in the training field: cinema and television schools, specialized training centres, production and distribution firms etc.
Operational objectives of MEDIA Training
- Strengthen the skills of European audiovisual professionals in order to improve the quality and potential of European audiovisual works. The programme shall support notably action in the following areas:
- Script-writing techniques: to enable experienced scriptwriters to improve their capacities to develop techniques based on traditional and interactive methods of writing;
- Economic, financial and commercial management: develop the professionals’ ability to grasp and integrate the European dimension into their work fields;
- Application of new technologies: develop the professionals’ capacity to use digital technologies, in particular in their work fields.
- Improve the European dimension of audiovisual training activities: to encourage exchanges and co-operation in supporting the networking between existing training institutions and partners of the professional sector and the training activities for trainers.
Applicant companies must belong to one of the following categories:
- film and television schools;
- universities;
- specialised professional training institutions;
- private companies from the industry;
- specialized professional organizations from the industry.
You can access the list of MEDIA funded training sessions for 2008 by clicking here here.