Laboratory for film education: shifting discourse to practice

- Improving teachers’ skills and higher education’s readiness to respond to the changing competencies of students in the audiovisual digital age. - Integrating practical and theoretical curricula ...

- Improving teachers’ skills and higher education’s readiness to respond to the changing competencies of students in the audiovisual digital age. - Integrating practical and theoretical curricula in film education through the application of multimodal practice-based methods of teaching to stimulate students’ creativity and drive innovation. - Promoting inclusion through diversification of pedagogical methods corresponding with different learning styles and neurodiverse cognitive predispositions.

- Establishing local labs at 3 European film schools and an overarching transnational LAB (supported by a series of international bootcamps), dedicated to the practice-based co-development of innovative workshop formats. - Creating, and implementing new workshop formats, curricula, and pedagogical aids for teaching theory through practice accommodating various learning styles. - Developing and publishing the digital platform for co-working, exchange, documentation and dissemination of results.

Turning pedagogical labs into permanent units and innovation drivers in all participating institutions, promotion of this solution on European scale Adaptation of existing curricula in participating institutions (resulting in a more inclusive and diverse programmes) Growth of competencies in designing and teaching multimodal theory workshops among participants of the Labs and bootcamps Creating awareness of the new multimodal pedagogical paradigm for integrating practice and theory in the field