Explore Creative Europe MEDIA Training Courses in the Get Trained brochure produced by MEDIA Desk Germany

Improving the skills of European professionals in the European audiovisual sector is a core objective of the Creative Europe MEDIA strand. MEDIA's professional development training programmes take place all over Europe and beyond.

You can find details about MEDIA Training Courses in the Get Trained Brochure (2026) produced by MEDIA Desk Germany. (Please note the previous Creative Europe MEDIA training database has gone offline).

In Get Trained, the training courses are clustered into these categories:

• Script & project development
• Production & post-production
• Management & legal affairs
• Tech & innovation
  
• Marketing & distribution

The brochure has a brief description of each programme with clickable links to the website of each training organisation.

Some current & upcoming training programmes

Script & project development: The Résidence | Paris

This is 6 month training and mentoring programme for emerging international filmmakers that supports the development of a first or second feature film. Residents benefit from individual script consultancy, pitching coaching, and access to European festivals and markets including the Marché du Film. The Residence 2027 will run from 15 March to 31 July 2027.

Applications are open now until 30 September 2026.

Production & post production: Art Department Masterclass 2026 | Vilnius

5-10 November 2026 in Vlunius Lithuania. Art Department Masterclass is for art department professionals from all over the world. For production designers, art directors, set decorators, prop masters, set dressers, graphic designers, and anyone working in the art department with at least 5 years of professional experience. They select 20 participants for each training session.

Application deadline 01 September, 2026.

Management & legal affairs: Talent Bridge | Online + In Person

A hybrid training and mentoring programme for emerging filmmakers with the experience of 1-3 short films. Through workshops at Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes, Vilnius and Limassol as well as online events, participants develop key skills in pitching, audience strategy, digital distribution and new technologies.

On the T-Port Germany website you will details of upcoming online and in-person training such as Market Navigation & Career Strategy on 25 November 2026.

Screen Ireland Training Bursaries

Bursaries for professinal development training in other countries can often be provided by the training organisations or by national authorities like Screen Ireland in the case of applicants based in Ireland.

When the necessary skills development opportunities are not available physically in Ireland, the Bursary Award allows bursary recipients to participate in in-person or online international skills development programmes, workshops, and structured work programmes to assist their professional development.

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland's Bursary Awards funding scheme is open all year round. Their new ASTARS Platform has been designed to manage funding applications, monitor skills training, and reporting through a central database.

The deadline for Screen Ireland Bursary applications is the final Friday of each month.

Types of Bursaries

Over the years Screen Ireland has supported a number of industry professionals to access prestigious international skills programmes like EAVE, ACE Producers, Inside Pictures, Aardman Academy Stop Motion, Documentary Campus Masterschool, ESoDoc and Eurodoc.

Screen Ireland offers three types of bursaries to applicants:

• Funding to attend full time courses and workshops abroad.
• Funding to participate in a structured work programme within international companies and organisations. The work programme can be designed by the individual to specifically match their skills development needs.
• Funding to participate in a substantial international online skills development programme.

Who Can Apply for Screen Ireland Bursaries?

This scheme is for industry professionals working in the Irish film, television, animation, and related sectors with a minimum of three years’ full-time experience relevant to the job area of the applicant.

For screen writing bursaries, applicants with one year of experience will be considered if they have obtained development funding from Screen Ireland, the MEDIA Programme, or a national broadcaster for a feature length film script or a television series.

• This award scheme is for a skills development programme or a work programme or placement relevant to the applicant’s area of work only.
• In cases where an applicant is planning a career transition within the industry, the application must clearly demonstrate the applicant’s commitment to the planned career change.
• Applications must be submitted a minimum of six weeks prior to commencement of the skills development programme.
• Applicants may apply for a bursary pending acceptance on a programme.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered.

For queries, contact: skills.fundingschemes@screenireland.ie