Universidade Lusófona, Film and Media Arts Department was created in 1996 within the Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies School to promote training and theoretical/applied research in the fields of communication and art, namely in areas which are related with the use of film and new digital media. The department is committed to providing hands-on specialised skill training, to foster individual and collaborative creative growth, and to serve as a testing ground for the application of emerging film and media technologies.

The department promotes both initial, continuous and advance training in the different areas of animation, film and media creation and development, besides being actively engaged in several research projects with partners and organisations at a national and international level.

The film and media arts department offer state-of-the-art facilities and equipment in the midst of a vibrant environment that nourishes students’ talent and their thirst for creative and technical fulfilment. The department and the students’ productions are regularly funded by the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA) and the university is a full member of CILECT – Centre International de Liaison des Écoles de Cinéma et de Télévision and GEECT – Groupement Européen des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision. Universidade Lusófona is the leader of this consortium.

IADT is Ireland’s campus for the creative industries and a founding member of the European University for film and media arts, FilmEU. It is entering into a period of development and change, in the context of wider transformation of higher education in Ireland, the rapid development of European Universities, and strong support for the economic and cultural significance of the creative industries, particularly digital creative industries. It is Ireland’s only institute of art, design and technology with a specific focus on the creative cultural and technological sectors.  Programmes in both the Faculty of Film, Art + Creative Technologies and the Faculty of Enterprise + Humanities are unique in that they combine practical, transferrable skills with academic learning. Because we believe in being active in research and practice, our students get to work with fantastic staff, many of whom are internationally acclaimed in their fields.

LUCA School of Arts is a unique biotope for creativity in Belgium. It’s the only university college in the Flemish region exclusively dedicated to art and design, and it’s associated with KU Leuven, one of the oldest and most renowned research universities in Europe, ranked 42nd in the Times Higher Education World Universities Rankings of 2022.

The school combines the strengths and expertise of five renowned art and design campi spread across Brussels, Genk, Ghent and Leuven. The RE:ANIMA program is held at the beautiful C-mine campus in Genk, in a historical mining area repurposed into a creative and cultural hub. LUCA has more than 4,000 students who can choose from both professional and academic bachelor’s and master’s degrees, in a range of thirty programmes in Audiovisual Arts & Techniques, Interior & Product Design, Construction Technology, Music & Drama and Visual Arts & Design. The students are immersed in an artistic and creative environment with numerous symposia and exhibitions, performances and concerts, film and theatre presentations along with numerous master classes.