This year’s call for proposals invited researchers and educators to form collaborative clusters that push the boundaries of teaching, learning, and artistic exploration in the creative disciplines. The selected clusters exemplify the potential of cross-institutional and cross-disciplinary collaboration to reimagine education in film and media arts for a rapidly evolving cultural and technological landscape.
Each of these clusters will run from **June 2025 to January 2027**, uniting researchers from at least three FilmEU+ partner institutions. Together, they represent FilmEU+’s commitment to fostering innovation, interdisciplinarity, and European collaboration in the arts and education sectors.
Animating Together — Building Connections Through Participatory Animation
Sandy Claes & Nairy Eivazy, LUCA School of Arts
Partner Institutions: IADT, Lusófona University, VIA, VŠMU, NATFA
https://www.filmeu.eu/research/dynamic-clusters/animating-together
“Animating Together” explores the transformative potential of participatory animation as a medium for inclusive storytelling and community engagement. Through a series of workshops hosted across European cities, the cluster will bring together students, artists, and communities to collaboratively create animated narratives that transcend cultural and linguistic boundaries. By emphasizing accessible filmmaking methods, this initiative links artistic creation with education, cultural policy, and social inclusion—empowering participants to tell their own stories and fostering new frameworks for collaborative film education.
EU-SCRIPT — European Screenplay Library
Andris Feldmanis, Tallinn University
Partner Institutions: IADT, Lusófona University, VŠMU, LMTA
https://www.filmeu.eu/research/dynamic-clusters/eu-script
Addressing the scarcity of accessible European film and television scripts for educational use, “EU-SCRIPT” aims to establish the first European Screenplay Library. This pioneering initiative will curate, translate, and make available a diverse selection of European scripts, accompanied by interviews and study materials. By expanding access to European storytelling traditions, the cluster will offer educators, students, and researchers invaluable resources that reflect the continent’s linguistic, cultural, and narrative diversity—rebalancing the dominance of Hollywood material in European screenwriting education and fostering a deeper engagement with Europe’s cinematic heritage.
PI(t)E — Pedagogical Innovation through Essayism
Isolde Vanhee (LUCA School of Arts) & Katarína Mišíková (VŠMU)
Partner Institutions: Lusófona University, LMTA
https://www.filmeu.eu/research/dynamic-clusters/pi-t-e
“PI(t)E” seeks to develop and implement essayism as a transdisciplinary pedagogical and artistic methodology across film, visual arts, music, theatre, performance, and game design. By emphasizing reflective, process-based, and self-reflexive learning, this cluster aims to bridge theory and practice while embedding artistic research more deeply into higher arts education. The project will experiment with essayistic approaches as tools for critical thinking and creative inquiry, fostering new forms of learning that are dialogical, cross-media, and rooted in artistic experimentation.