{"id":27104,"date":"2025-02-19T15:11:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/unions-gathered-in-prague-to-discuss-training-and-skills\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T14:12:21","slug":"unions-gathered-in-prague-to-discuss-training-and-skills","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/uniglobalunion.org\/news\/unions-gathered-in-prague-to-discuss-training-and-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment unions gathered in Prague to discuss training and skills"},"content":{"rendered":"
From 29 to 30 of January 2025, European Social Partners in the Audiovisual and Live Performance sectors<\/strong>\u00a0behind\u00a0Creative Skills Europe<\/a> organised a second regional conference on skills for Central andEastern Europe in Prague, Czechia. The partner organisations are the European Broadcasting Union<\/a>\u00a0(EBU),\u00a0Pearle* Live Performance Europe<\/a>, the\u00a0Media, Entertainment & Arts sector of UNI Europa<\/a>\u00a0(EURO-MEI), the\u00a0International Federation of Actors<\/a>\u00a0(FIA), the\u00a0International Federation of Musicians<\/a>\u00a0(FIM) and the\u00a0European Federation of Journalists<\/a>\u00a0(EFJ).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n Martina Peckov\u00e1 \u010cern\u00e1, Head of the Cultural and Creative Industries at the Czech Ministry of Culture welcomed the participants to Prague and gave an overview of the state-of-play for the cultural and creative professionals in Czech Republic. Organised with the local support of the Arts and Theatre Institute<\/a>‘s InfoPoint for the international cooperation CzechMobility.Info<\/a>, the conference put the spotlight on key challenges faced by the audiovisual and live performance sectors such as the digital shift, the green transition, gender equality and inclusion, as well as access to training for all sector professionals<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n The conference brought together over 70 participants from the fields of journalism, broadcasting, film production, live performance, etc. Organisations represented employers, trade unions, policymakers and educational institutions from different countries in Central and Eastern Europe: Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia, Germany, Poland and Slovenia. Together with experts coming from other European regions, they explored the ways training and skills initiatives can help address the main challenges faced by the live performance and audiovisual sectors.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n