"Najlepsza"prezentacja nr 14

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Audiovisual cooperation: the MEDIA, the EACEA (Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency)

On 14 January 2005 the Commission adopted Decision setting up the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency. This Agency will be responsible for the management of certain parts of the EU’s programmes in the education, culture and audiovisual fields. The Agency has started its preparatory works in 2005 and is fully operational since the 3rd of January 2006
The Commission is responsible for the following tasks:
• Management of certain programme strands
• Annual work programmes in the fields of education, audiovisual and culture
• Political and budgetary priority-setting
• Programme evaluation and information
• Monitoring of the agency
• Chairing programme committees (the role of the committees remains unchanged)
• In certain cases: adoption of the project selection and publication of the calls for proposals
The MEDIA Plus Programme (2001-2005) entered into force in January 2001 and aims at strenghtening the competitiveness of the European audiovisual industry with a series support measures dealing with :
• the training of professionals;
• the development of production projects and companies;
• the distribution of cinematographic works and audiovisual programmes;
• the promotion of cinematographic works and audiovisual programmes;
• the support for cinematographic festivals.

NEW EXECUTIVE AGENCY for MEDIA
The “Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency” has officially taken over the operational management of the MEDIA programme as of 1 January 2006.
The tasks of the MEDIA unit of the EACEA include the following:
• Preparing and launching calls for proposals (or tenders)
• Evaluation and pre-selection of applicants and projects
• Contracting and Signing project agreements
• Monitoring of projects (intermediate reports, final reports)
• Communication and information with beneficiaries
• On the spot controls