Re:Sound Design Measures is a project targeting the design of an MA programme in Sound Design in the Media Arts that expands beyond traditional modes of film sound education.Re:Sound goes beyond the screen to emancipate sound as a fully-fledged discipline and point-of-departure, addressing the broader relationship between sound and image, from traditional modes to immersive and interactive experiences, and further implies sound epistemology as much as technical processes. Re:Sound positions itself as an active bridge between the various creative industries of Europe due to the ubiquitous nature of sound. While visual studies frequently monopolise arts academics and our conscious relationship to our environments, sound studies offer a unique inquiry into the multisensorial nature of the arts and the human condition. From cinema arts to the home environment, from stage to performance art, from discotheque to village square, from house of worship to cherished natural spaces - sound culture is multidimensional, ever-present and dynamic, producing substantial alterations in the way in which we “hear” art and the world. We envision Re:Sound as a rethinking of sound in our lives, provisioning artists and researchers to heighten our awareness and engagement while opening vast possibilities for the evolution of sound in multiple arenas. Re:Sound will integrate the cultural, economic and social goals of Europe, thereby creating a cross-pollination of curricular and creative ideation and implementation that benefits learners, audiences and industry across regional boundaries. Our proposal is to be jointly delivered by the HEI’s involved in the European University Alliance, FilmEU and relevant non-educational partners. Re:Sound will play a significant role in delivering much-needed specialists for sound design and execution in the broadest sense of media arts; for film, television, immersive and virtual media, and new paradigms yet to emerge.

FILMEU – The European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts brings together four European Film and Media Arts schools with a common internationalisation ambition and a long track record of past collaborations:Lusófona University, Lisbon, PortugalLUCA School of Arts, Brussels, BelgiumSZFE/University of Theatre and Film Arts,Budapest, HungaryDún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin, IrelandThese institutions have come together to create flexible, multinational, innovative, graduate education and research in the field of Film and Media Arts and, through this collaboration, consolidate the central role of Europe as a world leader in the creative and culture industries. FILMEU\u2019s main objective is to implement a European University of excellence focused in the fields of Film and Media Arts. Our vision implies that FILMEU must be constituted as an exemplary collaborative structure able to deepen existing cooperation and foster the involved HEI ability to act in the cultural and creative industries and across other societal areas they impact. In order to achieve this, the Alliance will enact a variety of infrastructures that will efficiently enable our goals, including joint governance and Q&A structures, shared academic and administrative digital resources, a common and original mobility matrix supported by harmonised curricula and seamless processes, common virtual and physical structures, and rigorous professional development and student support mechanisms. FILMEU will transform our Universities via the leveraging of curricula and pedagogical approaches that promote team and project based cross-disciplinary project driven education. FILMEU will transform our Universities into a single entity by interlinking teaching and artistic research amidst new forms of virtual and physical mobility supported by the shared use of physical and virtual structures that will benefit more than 2500 students and 650 teachers and researchers.

FILMEU_RIT brings together four European Higher Education Institutions: UL - Lusófona University from Lisbon, Portugal; SZFE – University of Theatre and Film Arts, from Budapest, Hungary; LUCA School of Arts from Brussels, Belgium; and IADT - Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, from Dublin, Ireland. Together, these institutions collaborate around the common objective of jointly promoting high-level research, innovation and educational activities in the multidisciplinary field of Film and Media Arts and, through this collaboration, consolidate the central role of Europe as a world leader in the creative fields. FILMEU_RIT will increase the Alliance’s competitiveness and reinforce its ability to develop activities that span all the areas of the knowledge square: education, research, innovation, and service to society, while helping the creative sector to affirm its potential for innovation and resilience in a post COVID-19 context. FILMEU_RIT will develop a common R&I agenda for artistic research supported by common resources and joint structures that will increase talent attraction and the impact of the research developed amidst the alliance. Such impact seeks to promote greater engagement of society and business with art and creativity in order to increase European competitiveness and its artistic R&I profile. FILMEU_RIT’s main objective is the capacitation, in Research and Innovation terms, of the individual HEIs that integrate the Alliance via the joint design of strategies and action plans that ensure the transformation of the future European University into an Institution that puts Research and Innovation in the fields of Film and Media Arts at the centre of its activities and operates as a highly valuable critical cultural intermediary.