AFIC Seminar: a Project Backed by the European Commission
AFIC – the Audiovisual Financing and Commercialisation seminar – was held within the framework of the Euromed Audiovisual programme, funded by the European Commission. It enabled Ina EXPERT and its Mediterranean partners to hold three seminars between 2006 and 2008 which were open to producers, distributors, directors and heads of cinema schools and universities from Mediterranean countries (MEDA countries and territories).
These seminars provide participants with an overview of the audiovisual industry, helping to encourage international activity by audiovisual companies. Training was based on case studies, conferences, and an analysis of participants’ projects and their potential. They also provided an opportunity for the creation of networks in the Mediterranean as a way of promoting future cooperative projects.
Training courses
Training agreements and conventions have been entered into between higher education bodies (the Fine Arts Academy of Lebanon, the Senghor University in Alexandria, Egypt) as well as with audiovisual companies (SNRT in Morocco, EPTV in Algeria, Cifode’Com in Tunisia).
Assisting in the training of television and radio staff in Morocco and Algeria
Ina EXPERT trainers and experts have been working with Moroccan public radio-television (SNRT) since 2001: technicians, journalists, producers, make-up artists, etc. Several hundred SNRT employees have been able to take part in training programmes in Rabat and other cities.
In 2008 and 2009, Algerian television (EPTV) commissioned Ina EXPERT to train its technicians, lighting experts, computer graphics artists, etc. It also established a preservation and digitisation programme for its archives, assisted by experts from Ina and Ina EXPERT.
Partnership in Tunisia with Cifode’Com for broadcasting.
The Centre for Information, Training, Documentation, and Studies in Communication Technologies (Cifode'Com), funded by the Tunisian Ministry of Communication Technologies, has developed continuing education modules for professionals in partnership with Ina EXPERT, principally aimed at the broadcasting sector which is undergoing a deep technological transformation.
