is a year long professional development programme for European audiovisual producers delivered through three seven day English speaking workshops held in different European cities.

Since 1988 EAVE has developed a combination of producer training, project development and network creation through working, via group and individual activity, on the development of fiction and documentary projects. Through this method participants work on the major processes of production from early development in the first week to meeting leading commissioning editors, sales agents and national and regional funders in the third session.
During the year, producers, script analysts, professional experts and participants work together on

• Script and documentary project analysis and development
• Financing strategies for development and production
• Co-production and co-financing
• Legal issues related to producing and co-producing
• Pitching
• Budgeting and financial management
• Negotiating skills
• Marketing
• Sales and distribution
• Project packaging
• Business planning
• Company and career development

During the workshops around fifty participants work in four groups each of which is led by an experienced producer. This group activity enables participants to share knowledge and experience and to get to know each other well. It is complemented by plenary sessions, case studies, individual meetings with script analysts and industry professionals as well as pitching and negotiation training.

Throughout the year there are many opportunities for one to one meetings, formal and informal, with all of the EAVE experts . 

Participants are invited to apply with or without a project.
The majority of projects tend to be, although not exclusively, low to medium budget fiction and documentary features. Projects range across many genres and forms.
At the point of application fiction projects should be at least at well developed treatment or first draft stage. Documentaries should be in the form of a coherent outline/treatment with, perhaps, some already shot material. The producer must have the rights to develop and produce the project.  There are many ways of measuring the success of EAVE Producers Workshops for each participant entering a European wide network, new tools and increased knowledge, stronger self belief and confidence, the development of a project, meeting a network of decision makers.
For each person the experience and benefits are slightly different. It is both a personal and shared journey. A recent research project of the last five years revealed that 24% of projects which were developed through EAVE have been produced with another 25%  remaining in active development. EAVE Producers Workshop welcomes applications from:

• Producers working in fiction, documentary and new media
• Executive producers in film, television and new media
• Audiovisual professionals working in the fields of, for example, development, legal affairs, finance, sales, distribution, broadcasting, administration

Applicants with a project are invited to attend with their writer in the first two weeks. This enables the producer/writer team to gain the maximum benefit from individual and group discussion of the project. Applicants should be professionals with a record of achievement in their own country who wish to

• take their knowledge and skills to a high professional level
• join a dynamic European network
• co-finance and co-produce in Europe
• widen their knowledge of European film and television financing
• develop a project in a comprehensive way working with leading professionals. 

Writers are welcome during the first two weeks...