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• Archive for Education offers an online image bank for teachers with short films, videos and image and audio fragments from national and regional broadcasters, cultural and heritage organizations (and soon also fragments of creations supported by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund). The database is completely tailored to the final attainment levels and curriculum objectives of education (here).
• Cultuurconnect, a Flemish service provider working on the digitalization of the local cultural field, is currently developing a film streaming service for all public libraries in cooperation with a distributor. The content focuses on art house, world cinema, local productions, ...The project is still in the experimental phase, in which 12 libraries are participating and share a supply of 300 titles, including over 100 short films. In a second phase, the offer will be further expanded to more libraries. In order to offer a wider and regularly renewed range of films, other streaming platforms will be addressed in this second phase (here).

Core Films and Klassz educational and youth programme – Classics in the Classroom

Since 2018, the Hungarian National Film Institute’s Film Archive has been building their website named Alapfilmek (Core Films), to demonstrate important works of Hungary’s cinematic history in a comprehensive, yet richly detailed manner. The website introduces different genres, eras and the oeuvre of film artists, and provides an opportunity to showcase the treasures within the Archive’s collections in connection to films. Fan favourites and unfairly forgotten masterpieces equally make their appearance, from every genre and type of film. The gradually expanding film history website currently offers intriguing and diverse content about 460 cinematic pieces.
The NFI – Film Archive’s educational programme for young audiences (age 3–25) is Klassz programme is based on the ‘Core Films’ (Alapfilmek.hu) project, the Film Archive’s website on the history of film. The programme offers educational materials and online games developed by pedagogues (literature, visual arts, history etc.), NFI – Film Archive organizes screenings, workshops, events at cultural festivals, competitions, lectures and camps for young audiences and workshops, conferences for educators.
NFI, Hungary has been funding the Great Hungarian Film Test for Students, a unique program that promotes Hungarian film history, as well as the film industry as a whole. The contest format - developed by the Association of Students and Youth Journalists - conveys the message to young people aged 14-20 in an innovative and creative way on their favorite and most used devices (smartphones, laptops) and platforms (social media).
The Great Hungarian Film Test for Students is based on a 3-round competition series format. The first round is an online test based on which contestants can gain entry to the semi-final and final competition taking ó place at a cultural venue in Budapest.
The 6th edition of the Great Hungarian Film Test for Students in 2023 reached more than 23,000 contestants throughout Hungary.

The Icelandic Film Centre hosted a conference on 28 and 29 October 2022 on creating content for young audiences, with workshops and lectures from renowned experts, academics, and producers in the field of children's media. The conference focused on lectures and presentations on Thursday 27th, and workshops on Friday 28th, intended for teachers and filmmakers (here).

Since 2015, cinema and audiovisual became a fully-fledged part of the curriculum of schools of all levels, as specific disciplines to contribute to the construction of a common audiovisual culture and to the formation of learning environments. With Cinema and Audiovisual Law no. 220 of 14 November 2016, the National Cinema and Images for Schools Plan, signed by Directorate General for Cinema and Audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture and the Directorate General for Students, Integration and Participation of the Ministry of Education, was created. The regulation stipulates that 3% of the National Film and Audiovisual Fund, amounting to at least 12 million euros, will be allocated each year, to be used according to the intervention plan for each school year. The actions of the National Plan Cinema and Images for Schools are oriented towards the promotion of film and audiovisual language teaching and the acquisition of tools and methods of analysis that foster knowledge of the grammar of images and awareness of the nature and specificity of their functioning. The Plan envisages: training activities for teachers aimed at introducing a new target figure into the school system, the visual education operator; the launch of calls for tenders addressed to schools of all levels and to operators in the sector to support the inclusion of film and audiovisual education within educational pathways, also through workshop activities in cooperation with professionals in the sector, and to promote festivals, reviews and innovative educational initiatives dedicated to the school world. www.cinemaperlascuola.it is the first institutional web platform, promoted by the two Ministries, dedicated to the world of cinema and audiovisual at school. In the website, all the initiatives promoted by the two Ministries as part of the National Cinema and Images for Schools Plan are presented: opportunities, calls for proposals, teaching materials, audio-visual materials, learning objects, training courses and any other useful tool for launching visual education paths at school.

In August 2021 the Ministries of Culture and Education signed a three-year Memorandum of Understanding allocating resources of at least €12 million per year to implement the Cinema Law. Financial allocations from the previous two-year period left unspent due to the Covid pandemic have been added to the €36 million earmarked for the three-year period.

In March 2022, the third National Plan for Cinema and Images in Schools, which has allocated €54 million for the 2022/2023 academic year. The goal is to boost knowledge and awareness of cinematographic and audiovisual language in schools of every level.

• Two projects are run by Filmoteca Española, which is a Sub-directorate General of the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA).

• • Educa Filmoteca is an educational project directed at students of different levels of education (secondary, upper secondary and vocational training) whose aim is to stimulate the critical thinking of learners and to promote audiovisual literacy (i.e. knowledge of film language and modes of filmmaking). Educational activities are organised around the exhibition of films, the development of pedagogical materials and the holding of colloquia moderated by experts. While activities are normally delivered through face-to-face sessions, Educa Filmoteca has been providing online events and activities for high schools during the pandemic.
  • The activities of Filmoteca en familia are designed to bring families and children closer to film. The aims of this project are twofold: firstly, to draw attention to the joys of the film experience, and, secondly, to turn children (ages 2 to 12) into active and lasting audiences. Moving beyond the conventional viewing of a film in a cinema, Filmoteca en familia proposes filmgoing and film viewing as experiences connected to education and to the experimental. Sessions include the projection of a feature film or a set of shorts and a guided practical workshop to foster the learning of the conventions and techniques of film language.