Three-years professional training
ZeLIG runs a three-year vocational training course in documentary filmmaking funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano through the Council for Professional Training in Italian/German/ Ladin languages, with majors in camera/lighting, editing/post-production, and directing/project development. Courses are held in three languages: Italian, German and English.

ESoDoc - European Social Documentary is a EU's Media training initiative which focuses on a special genre of documentary production that is particularly suitable for the new multiplatform world: documentaries that draw attention to human rights, social justice and environmental protection, particularly in the developing world. ESoDoc wants to prepare professionals for the markets of tomorrow and make them part of the changing audiovisual world.  ESoDoc offers three 1-week sessions held over a 6-month period, during which participants, either individually or in groups, develop a documentary film project.

LINCT - Leveraging International Networks for Co-Productions and Training - is a project supported by the EU’s MEDIA International Preparatory Action with the specific aim of creating a dialogue for promoting documentary co-productions between India and Europe. LINCT foresees online-conferences and on residential workshop in New Delhi from 16th to 21st of November 2009.