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Dept for Culture Media and Sport

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Mr. Hayes: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the (a) budget, (b) aims and (c) target group of the Communities MEDIA Training programme; and if he will list projects funded to date involving United Kingdom partners. [215241] Estelle Morris: I have been asked to reply. The MEDIA Training programme is part of the European Union's audio-visual policy. The MEDIA training budget for the six years 2001-06 is è59.4 million. The aims of the programme are to improve the continuous vocational training of professionals in the audio-visual sector; and encourage co-operation and exchange of know-how and best practice. Training activities supported by the MEDIA Training Programme are mainly targeted at professionals in the audio-visual industry and from radio, in particular: new media content providers, professionals from the animation industry, professionals from post-production, notably visual effects supervisors, managers, producers, directors, sales agents, distributors, marketing executives, script-writers, script-editors, commissioning editors, as well as trainers. The following table sets out the training courses (and their providers) funded to date involving United Kingdom partners. UK professionals have also benefited from courses which are not organised by United Kingdom partners. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Training provider Training course 2001 Moonstone International Moonstone Filmmaker's Lab and Moonstone Screenwriter's Lab 2001 Arista Arista Development Workshops 2002 Draft Zero EdeN--European Development Network 2003 Moonstone International Moonstone Filmmaker's Lab and Moonstone Screenwriter's Lab 2003 The Script Factory Scene Insiders 2003 Draft Zero EdeN--European Development Network 2004 Arista Development Arista Development Workshops 2004 Moonstone International Moonstone Filmmaker's Lab and Moonstone Screenwriter's Lab 2004 The Script Factory Scene Insiders 2004 University of West England The Three Month Bristol Animation Course _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

431 c16-7W; 215241

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Finance EU action Media Training

Contains statistics

Yes

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