EU FUNDED PROJECTS
Health and Safety in AV Productions - OiRA
The project aims to design an online risk assessment tool (OiRA) and it is implemented by CEPI with UNI-Europa and associate organizations such as FIAPF, FIA and FIM. We have also set up collaboration with EU-OSHA, the European Agency for Health and Safety at work. This project aims at facilitating and improving AV work health and safety conditions, especially for SMEs.
In 2019, the OiRA tool was created and can be used by anyone who aims to assess the health and safety risks related to audiovisual productions such as feature films, short films, documentaries, television series, commercials, video clips, video art, virtual reality, …. In 2024, CEPI and the social partners have decided to review and promote the OiRA tool.
CEPI is a member of the project Steering Committee and responsible to revise research done and plans for future actions.
Gender equality in the European audiovisual sector
CEPI has been a partner to the project called Monitoring the implementation of the Framework of Action on gender equality and mapping initiatives to promote diversity in the European audiovisual sector.
The EU funded project via DG EMPLOYMENT consists of a review of the framework of actions on equality in the audiovisual sector and dissemination of important best practices.
The framework of actions has been negotiated between FIA, FIM, EFJ and UNI MEI on the one hand and the European associations of employers including ACT, CEPI, FIAPF and EBU on the other hand. It identifies the priorities and recommends policies and tools that the European social partners believe can enhance gender equality focusing on the following key areas: gender portrayal, equality of pay, equality in decision making, gender roles in the workplace, the reconciliation of work and private life.
In 2019 in Cannes, CEPI also strongly supported Commissioner’s Gabryel and MEDIA Unit initiative and endorsed “Women on the move”
MEDIAROAD
The EU-funded project MEDIAROAD, broadcasters’led, promises to help Europe’s media sector revamp the way it approaches innovation by shaping future research and policy priorities as well as by strengthening collaboration between media organizations and start-ups.
CEPI has been in poll position particularly via the animation sector, where research and innovation are crucial in areas such as immersive reality.
The project aims to collaborate with other Horizon 2020 projects and paved the way to include culture and creative industries into the new framework of EU funded programme such as Horizon Europe and Digital Europe.
CEPI with the other consortium stakeholders continues its activity to support research/innovation on cultural and creative sectors, including EU's cultural heritage with particular emphasis on SMEs.
Diversity and inclusion in the European audiovisual sector
In the course of the project, four roundtables have been organized to facilitate practical exchanges on the topic of diversity between audiovisual professionals from across the EU. These discussions are feeding the negotiations of a Framework of Actions on diversity and inclusion in the European audiovisual sector. This FoA is negotiated by ACT, AER, CEPI, EBU and FIAPF on the employers' side, and EFJ, UniMei, FIA and FIM on the workers' side.
An online platform was created to present all the resources collected and produced in the course of the project, as well as to promote the implementation of the recommendations that will be put forward by the Framework of Actions by national social partners in as many EU countries as possible.
Environmental sustainability in film and TV productions
In 2023, CEPI, in collaboration with EBU, FIA, FIAPF, FIM and UNI-MEI, concluded their project “Strengthening capacities of social partners to meet the challenges of environmental sustainability in film and TV productions”, launched in May 2021.
This project sought to map the good practices that the film and TV production ecosystem across Europe have put in place to achieve more environmentally friendly work practices and work places, as well as the practices aimed at shaping positively the changes in employment and work that these environmentally friendly practices generate. It also aimed to increase the capacities of social partners in the AV sector to address environmental sustainability in film and TV production and employment and workplace related changes through social dialogue mechanisms.
The project extended over three European capacity building seminars, the first in June 2022, the second in Tallin in November 2022 and the final one in April 2023 in Brussels. The seminars connected producers, creators, and other professionals from the European Audiovisual sector with sustainability experts and public institutions. The discussions revolved around EU policies, practical approaches with case studies presentations, as well as inspirational examples that are shaping the way to produce audiovisual works by reducing the environmental impact of shootings.
The outcome of the mapping exercise was a comprehensive booklet with all the findings of the project and an online platform that collects all the sustainable practices found along the way. As new practices emerge, the platform will continue to evolve and provide valuable guidance beyond the scope of the project.
CREATIVE SKILLS EUROPE
Creative Skills Europe is a platform where a wide range of stakeholders from the European audiovisual and live performance sectors meet: trade unions, employers’ organisations, national skills bodies, education & training providers, professional associations, etc. Their objective is to better adjust the sector training offer to the needs on the ground, to facilitate access to training for all types of workers at different moments of their careers, to contribute to the development of the sector and to secure professionals’ career paths.