International Training in TV Series scriptwriting Erasmus Project

Project Title

International Training in TV Series scriptwriting

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Quality and Relevance of Higher Education in Partner Countries

Project Summary

The growth of the TV series sector worldwide – both in terms of audience and of investments by the televisions, the producers and the digital distribution platforms – represents a strategic opportunity for the European and the Southern-Neighbourhood countries. To contribute to the development of this creative and cultural industry in the region, a strategic transnational and inter-sector partnership has been set up by 5 European and Southern-Mediterranean higher education organisations working in the cinema and TV domain, an international distance university and a national television, under the coordination of COPEAM, a Euro-Mediterranean audiovisual network, with the aim to conceive and implement a transnational innovative training in the field of TV series writing. Thanks to a deep preliminary analysis of the specific skills needed by the target market, to the experimentation of some innovative pedagogic methods and tools, to the integration of an international perspective and to an effective collaboration between the educational and the professional sectors, a curriculum has been designed and tested to reinforce the students and young professionals’ expertise and know-how and their employability within the job market at the international level.
In order to reach these goals, the partners has jointly developed the following 5 intellectual outputs:
– Analysis of the TV series market in Europe and in the Euro-Mediterranean region, in terms of production trends and investments, of working methods applied, of needed skills, and of specific training offer
– Innovative and transnational curriculum in the field of TV series writing
– E-learning tools: training modules and MOOC
– Criteria, methods and tools to evaluate the skills and the training’s results
– Evaluation report about the pilot training in TV series writing

Results:
– The needs in terms of training and skills development in the field of TV series writing are assessed at Euro-Mediterranean level;
– An innovative, transnational and intercultural training (6 countries concerned, 3 European and 3 of the Southern Neighbourhood) in the field of TV series writing, able to answer to the real needs of the concerned job market in the Euro-Mediterranean region, is jointly conceived and developed by the partner organisations, by building on their different expertises and approaches;
– A pilot edition of the 1-year blended training (workshops, interactive activities, e-learning tools, teamwriting practical exercise) is implemented in the 5 partner schools and 29 selected students and/or young professionals already active in the sector and willing a specialisation improved their skills and know-how, reinforced their employability and obtained ECTS credits;
– An evaluation system is defined and tested on the pilot training and on its results, to improve the training offer and its pertinence in respect to the needs of the job market. The evaluation of the skills acquired by the students based on common criteria represents an important contribution in the domain of competences recognition in a sector under evolution like the one of the TV series;
– A network of young TV scriptwriters and of trainers is developed, thus allowing the setting up of future initiatives and synergies at the international level.

COPEAM was in charge of the general management of the project and of the dissemination activity. The partners set up a Pedagogic Committee and a Coordination Committee to jointly implement the planned activities and steps and to reach the project’s goals.
This strategic action has enriched the training offer of the cinema schools in a context of pedagogic innovation and of international and inter-sector cooperation. The trained pool of young talents has improved its employability and its skills and has conceived some original TV series projects to the proposed to the production market. In the long term, this means training the future generation of professionals in the field of TV series, by fostering its creativity and expertise.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 254955,68 Eur

Project Coordinator

Conférence Permanente de l’Audiovisuel Méditerranéen & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels
• ESAC
• Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle et des Techniques de Diffusion (INSAS)
• FRANCE TELEVISIONS
• UNIVERSITA TELEMATICA INTERNAZIONALE-UNINETTUNO
• Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts – Université de Balamand
• UNIVERSITE DE TOULOUSE II – JEAN JAURES