23/02/2009 - Report of the training for trainers meeting of European animation schools that took place in Viborg (Denmark) - 27, 28 & 29 January 2009.

Attended by the representatives of the most important European schools and universities of animation, the 3rd Training for Trainers seminar, organised by Cartoon, the European Association of Animation Film, with the support of the MEDIA Programme of the EU and The Animation Workshop (Viborg in Denmark) took place in the town of Viborg from 27 to 29 January 2009. It followed a first seminar in Halle (Germany) in October 2006 and a second one in Ludwigsburg in October 2007. From 20 higher education institutions in 2006, the network has grown to 26 in Viborg, representing approximately 1600 students in Europe.
These unique seminars aimed at animation trainers and heads of animation schools in Europe have a double objective:
- to enable trainers to create a network, exchange ideas and programmes, to set up cooperations at European level and secondly
- to discuss current industry issues so that trainers and students are better prepared and educated to face the new trends and developments in the animation industry.

A summary of the sessions is available here: Report

You can find the list of the 26 animation schools and universities which attended the 2009 Training for Trainers:

• 9zeros (Barcelona, Spain)
• Ars Animacion (Madrid, Spain)
• Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Torino, Italia)
• Ecole Nationale des Arts Supérieurs de La Cambre (Brussels, Belgium)
• EMCA-EMCI Angoulême (Angoulême, France)
• Escola Nacional de Belas Arte (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Ludwigsburg, Germany)
• Fine Arts Academy in Krakow (Krakow, Poland)
• Gobelins, l’école de l’image (Paris, France)
• HEAJ – Haute Ecole Albert jacquard (Namur, Belgium)
• HFF - Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen “Konrad Wolf” (Potsdam, Germany)
• HSLU Design & Kunst Animation Department (Lucerne, Switzerland)
• Hochschule Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany)
• International Academy of Media and Arts (Halle, Germany)
• KASK - University College Ghent (Ghent, Belgium)
• La Poudrière (Valence, France)
• MOME - Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, Hungary)
• Noroff Instituttet (Stavanger, Norway)
• Supinfocom / Supinfogame (Valenciennes, France)
• The Animation Workshop (Viborg, Denmark)
• The National Film School of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Turku University of Applied Sciences (Turku, Finland)
• University of Wales (Newport / Gwent, UK)
• University of Paisley (Ayr / Scotland, UK)
• Vilnius College of Construction & Design (Vilnius, Lithuania)
• Volda University College (Volda, Norway)