Frederick University and the Non-Profit Cultural Organization A.E.I. Audiovisual Forum signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to develop collaborative actions to upgrade and promote film education and audiovisual production in Cyprus. The Memorandum was signed by the President of the Council of Frederick University, Ms Natassa Frederikou, and the Director of the Non-Profit, Cultural Organization A.E.I Audiovisual Forum, Mr Stavros Papageorgiou. The meeting took place at Frederick University in Nicosia, in the presence of Mr. Panikos Charalambous, coordinator of the Film and Digital Media concentration offered in the University’s Visual Communication Program, and Mr. Hector Papageorgiou, co-founder of A.E.I Audiovisual Forum.
The two parties expressed their common interest in developing film education and agreed to cooperate to support this aim. Among other things, Frederick University will award scholarships to secondary school students who demonstrate excellence in their films presented at the Cyprus International Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Historical Documentary Film Festival (AEI Film Festival), an annual event of the AEI Audiovisual Forum. In the festival, students from secondary schools, high schools, and technical schools from all over Cyprus participate, creating short films during the CINeDUCATION action, offered by the Educational Department of the Organisation and implemented in cooperation with the Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) of UNESCO in Cyprus and with the support of the Department of Contemporary and Modern Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture. In addition, Frederick University and the Organisation will cooperate in the joint organization of events, exhibitions, seminars, lectures, workshops, and conferences in areas of common educational, artistic, and scientific interest.
On June 15 and 16, the 24 student documentaries produced by the CINeDUCATION action will be screened at the Cinema Pantheon, where Frederick University will grant scholarships for studies in the Visual Communication Program to the students who will excel with their films.
