Started in 2020 and led for five years by the Institut Français, from October 2020, the CinEd program started to be coordinated by the Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema, ensuring general coordination for the next two years. At this stage, CinEd brings together fourteen European partners (including coordination, partners and associates) and receives support from many sources, local centers and the European Union's Creative Europe / MEDIA program.

Partners
CinEd is made up of a consortium of 14 founding cooperating partners from 11 European countries :
Associació A Bao A Qu (Spain), Asociace českých filmových klubů - AČFK (Czech Republic), Association Arte Urbana Collectif (Bulgaria), Cinema Arta (Romania), Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema (Portugal), La Cinémathèque Française (France), Contrasens (Romania), Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum (Germany), GET Cooperativa sociale (Italy), IhmeFilmi (Finland), Association Meno Avilys (Lithuania), Mog-Technologie (Technological partner - Portugal), Os Filhos de Lumière - Associação Cultural (Portugal), Shadow Casters (Croátia).
These partners engage financially to cooperate in a reflective and operational manner, outlining and creating shared tools and contents, promoting their national cinematography and developing educational activities on cinema in their countries.


Associació A Bao A Qu is a nonprofit cultural organization founded in 2004 and dedicated to the conception and development of projects that link artistic creation with education. A Bao A Qu introduces creation in primary and secondary schools with the involvement of filmmakers, photographers and artists. One of their main hubs of activity is projects on film education: Cinema en curs, Moving Cinema and cinema programming in Filmoteca de Catalunya, CGAI. It also develops other projects of reference as Fotografia en curs, Creators In Residence and collaborations with renowned museums and cultural institutions as CCCB, MACBA, MNCARS, MNAC or La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. Another important line of work is the trainings for teachers, educators and cultural managers.


AČFK gathers more than 100 cine-clubs and around 20 000 members in Czech Republic. In parallel of the organization of Summer Film School, AČFK also implements « Film and School » programme whose aim is to promote cinema education into secondary schools.


ARTE URBANA COLLECTIF est un collectif artistique basé à Sofia, Bulgarie. Il a été créé en 2016 par Ralitsa Assenova (coordinatrice de projets et programmatrice) et Dimitar Uzunov (producteur et metteur en scène), rejoints ensuite par d’autres acteurs dans le domaine artistique et culturel œuvrant en Bulgarie. Le collectif organise des événements culturels (festival, forums éducatifs, spectacles) en Bulgarie et vise à créer une dynamique culturelle internationale au sein du pays. Arte Urbana est à l’origine de deux grands événements : les Rencontres du jeune cinéma européen, dédié aux premiers films et au jeune public, et l’Académie d'été d'écriture dramaturgique – une résidence qui accueille des auteurs du monde entier, se tenant dans différents endroits de Bulgarie. Arte Urbana est partenaire de nombreux projets internationaux et est soutenu par des institutions importantes telles que la municipalité de Sofia et son programme culturel, le Fond national « Culture », l’Institut français de Bulgarie et l’Ambassade de France en Bulgarie, Espaço Camões Sofia et l’Ambassade de Portugal en Bulgarie, Goethe-Institut Bulgarie, British Institute, la Cinémathèque bulgare, etc.
Arte Urbana Collectif coordonne le programme Le Cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse pour la Bulgarie depuis 2017.


ARTA in dialogue Association was founded in 2012. The Association's main focus is on cinematographic events, but has a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches, as it can be seen in the projects that combine film with architecture, design, painting etc. Besides the one-time projects, the association develops long time projects such as the UrbanEye Film Festival (now reaching its seventh edition) and the management of ARTA cinema from Cluj-Napoca.


The Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema is the national film museum of Portugal, a state institution devoted to the preservation and screening of the Portuguese and the world’s moving images heritage. It was founded in the early 1950s by cinémathèque pioneer Manuel Félix Ribeiro, and became an autonomous institution in 1980.
In the same year it also opened its own film theatre and started its daily program of film shows. In 1996, the Cinemateca opened a modern conservation centre in the outskirts of Lisbon, which is now the base to all preservation, technical research and access activities, including the use of new technologies. In 2007, a new service devoted to younger audiences was created, entitled «Cinemateca Júnior». This service offers from several activities to school or family groups according to the
attendants’ age range with the purpose of transmitting the interest for the cinematographic art, such as film shows, thematic workshops, etc. In its premises the public can also visit a permanent and interactive exhibition of cinema and pre-cinema history. The Cinemateca has also played a decisive role in the creation and development of the network of European institutions aiming to preserve and enhance the European film heritage, having participated in several international and European programs, such as the LUMIÈRE Project (EU MEDIA I programme, 1991-95, based in Lisbon), ARCHIMEDIA - European Training Network for the Promotion of Cinema Heritage, the Raphaël project “Urgent: Nitrate Can't Wait”, European Film Gateway (2008-2011).
The Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema has been a member of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives) since 1956.


La Cinémathèque française is a not-profit organisation supported by the Ministry for Culture and Communication. It was founded in 1936 by the good will of Henri Langlois and a handful of far thinking individuals who wanted to save films from the silent era.
Its mission aims are: to preserve and restore films and archives; to program; to exhibit its collections in the Film Museum; to organize innovative temporary exhibitions on cinema. Another essential aim is the dissemination beyond its walls and the transmission, throughout an offer of cultural and educational action. It has initiated and leads since the last 20 years an original film educational program - Cinema, cent ans de jeunesse - with partners from mainland France and its overseas departments, Europe and over the world


Contrasens Cultural Association is a Romanian NGO founded 2015 that operates with Art, Culture and Education through culture for children, youth and adults.
Contrasens Cultural Association is a hub for local and emergent contemporary art and artists, a platform for education, training and growth through culture. We support and document the production of Romanian contemporary art and promote it in Romania as well as abroad and act as an interface between artists, public and sponsors in order to make the cultural space accessible, inclusive and to engage new public with contemporary art.
The main purpose is to contribute to the development of a professional, democratic and transformative cultural context through: (i) development and implementation of activities of education through and for culture and promoting European citizenship and democracy (ii) realization, coordination and implementation of cultural projects at local, national and European level, (ii) and (iii) development of own cultural productions.


The DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum is a leading, forward-thinking international film heritage organization. We are a pioneer in preserving and sharing film culture with a worldwide public, uniquely combining museum, cinema, archives and collections, festivals, digital platforms, research and digitization projects and numerous educational programs. Based in the diverse and dynamic city of Frankfurt, Germany, we actively work toward intercultural understanding, cultivating connections to institutions and initiatives in the film arts and sciences around the world. We link the history, materiality and meaning of film to the digital future.
Promoting film culture, in close collaboration with our audiences, is our mission. As a team of more than 200, we bring our professional knowledge and infinite passion for film to all that we do. For us film is everything.


Since 1987, GET social cooperative has been running a Centre for Cinema Research and Education in Bari Italy, which has become important at both the regional and national levels for those working in cinema education and training and video production. In collaboration with other cultural institutions and professionals in the sector, GET has organised training courses for teachers of all types and levels of school. It organized cinema events for schools, teachers, film industry professionals and families. It has pioneered the creation of cinema workshop activities by young people in Puglia, and founded the first national children’s film festival in the south of Italy. In 2005 GET founded what is Italy’s first l’Accademia del Cinema Ragazzi, for free. This is a cinema school for teenagers aged 16 to 19 in one of Bari’s most difficult suburbs.


IhmeFilmi is a Finnish association acting in the field of film education. The association has an extensive network of partners and film screening locations in Finland. Annually, thousands of young spectators are reached. The association organises courses on classic films in schools, city youth centers, movie theaters and other cultural spaces. The aim of the association is to increase the availability of film classics and advance their distribution for young people in Finland.


The NGO "Meno Avilys" has been active in the field of film education, film heritage and research since 2005. In 2006, it launched the first nation-wide film education project "Film at My School" in Lithuania. Since then, the NGO has been involved not only in the national but also international field of film education. In 2009, Meno Avilys became a member of the international video education network "Viducate" and organised the European Video Education Forum in Vilnius. Since 2014-2015 the organization has joined two international film education projects: Moving Cinema (project lead - A Bao A Qu (Barcelona)) and Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse (project lead - Cinémathèque Française). It has also participated in the international project "A Framework for Film Education in Europe" led by the British Film Institute. Since 2018 Meno Avilys started to collaborate with CinEd.


MOG Technologies SA (MOG)78 is a Portuguese company specialised in information technology development for the broadcast industry. MOG’s main activity is in the development of new technological platforms to introduce to the market products, systems and solutions, which automate the working processes of multimedia contents’ professional operators, mainly video studios, television producers, and television stations.
Based on open industry standards and offering cutting edge technology. MOG has been helping worldwide media companies and technology providers to increase the overall performance of its workflows while migrating for file-based environments, ensuring high interoperability between systems and formats. It has experience in different technologies in media industry like 3D, Video Coding/Wrapping, Visualization for IoT frameworks, Immersive and Accessible media environments (AR/VR/XR) among others.
MOG Technologies SA (MOG)78 is a Portuguese company specialised in information technology development for the broadcast industry. MOG’s main activity is in the development of new technological platforms to introduce to the market products, systems and solutions, which automate the working processes of multimedia contents’ professional operators, mainly video studios, television producers, and television stations.
Based on open industry standards and offering cutting edge technology. MOG has been helping worldwide media companies and technology providers to increase the overall performance of its workflows while migrating for file-based environments, ensuring high interoperability between systems and formats. It has experience in different technologies in media industry like 3D, Video Coding/Wrapping, Visualization for IoT frameworks, Immersive and Accessible media environments (AR/VR/XR) among others.


Os Filhos de Lumière – cultural association whose mission is to educate children and youngsters to Portuguese, European and International cinema. This education to cinema is developed through film workshops that gather filmmakers, teachers, students, schools and cultural venues, but also through screenings followed by conversations oriented by filmmakers.


Shadow Casters are a multi award-winning and critically acclaimed international artistic and production platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, creativity and reflection on intermedia art. Active since 2002, in its 18 years of work and public activity, the Shadow Casters have been a leading partner on numerous projects, both small and large across four continents, with 200 collaborations with professionals from more than 30 countries. Shadow Casters have also completed more than 50 educational, theatre and film projects and events The main work of Shadow Casters is related to various forms of education, cultural exchange, production and advocacy, particularly in the field of an independent cultural sector, interlacing new and innovative cultural and artistic practices. The main activities vary from filmmaking, video art, theatre performances, urban intermedia projects, activism to trainings and education for different target groups and different community art activities, both nationally and internationally.
Associated relays
Beyond founding partners’ countries, institutions or organizations join the program in order to extend the use of CinEd in their own country at their own expenses as follows: Translating the platform and its contents, Organizing national promotion of CinEd, Training teachers/mediators, Organizing screenings and educational activities with young audience...
Support
CinEd receives financial support from several organizations in the partnering countries, as well as from other European countries. They consider cinema education to be a priority for young generations, while also supporting the film industry and cultural diversity. They play a vital role in developing the programme.
Acknowledgements
In each partnering country, and in Europe more generally, many organizations, structures and networks actively contribute to promoting and spreading CinEd or helping the programme through in kind contributions.
Bulgaria: Institut français de Bulgarie - Festival Meetings of Young European Cinema, Sofia - Concept Studio - Regional library "Prof. Benyo Tzonev" - Lovetch;
Croatia: National Foundation for Civil Society Development / Kultura Nova Foundation / Croatian Audiovisual Centre HAVC / City of Zagreb / Kino Kinoteka;
Czech Republic: Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic (Ministerstvo kultury České republiky), The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic (Ministerstvo školství, mládeže a tělovýchovy České republiky), Institut Français de Prague, Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště (Letní filmová škola Uherské Hradiště), Free Cinema o.p.s., Animánie, Kino 35, Kasárna Karlín, Zlín Film Festival, Junior Fest, Festival Zlaté Slunce, Kino Aero, Národní institut pro další vzdělávání The National Information and Consulting Centre for Culture, Komunitní centrum Husitská, National Film Museum, Společnost pro kreativitu ve vzdělávání (Society for Creativity in Education);
Finland: National Audiovisual Institute (Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen Instituutti); Institut français de Finlande; Koulujen elokuvaviikko (Film Week for Schools);
France: AEFE Agence pour l’enseignement du français à l’étranger (Agency for French Teaching Abroad); Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC – National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image) – CÉMÉA ‘s (Centers for Teaching Active Education Methods) - Le Fresnoy;
Italy: Cooperativa Sociale Progettocittà, Associazione Cinergia, Apulia Film Commission, Sinapsi, Kismet Teatro Opera, CNiPA, Comune Di Bari, Associazione Culturale La Freccia, Associazione Culturale Spin Off, Unisco;
Lithuania: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Lithuanian Film Centre, Skalvija Cinema Centre, cinema theatre "Romuva";
Portugal: Plano Nacional das Artes (Ministério da Cultura e Ministério da Educação) / Plano Nacional de Cinema (Ministério da Educação e Ministério da Cultura) / Rede das Bibliotecas Escolares (Ministério da Educação) Direção Regional de Cultura do Alentejo / Instituto Cervantes / Goethe Institut Portugal / Instituto Cultural Romeno (Lisboa) / Institut Français de Portugal / Cinema Ideal (Lisboa) / Doc Lisboa – Festival de Cinema Documental / Rua das Gaivotas 6 / Polo Cultural das Gaivotas;
Romania: Contrasens: Ceau Cinema, Bloc Zero, French Institute Timisoara, Didactic Corp House Timis, Western University Timisoara, Department of Culture Timis; Cinema Arta: Cluj Cultural Centre;
Spain: Cinema en curs – Cine en curso; CGAI – Centro Galego das Artes da Imaxe.
Europe: Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE), International Federation of Film Archive (FIAF)