AV-founder NRW provides scholarships

The AV-founder NRW awards for 2012 on entrepreneurial talent in the media state of North Rhine-Westphalia 14 scholarships in the amount of 140,000 €. The application period runs until 25 November 2011. A jury will decide in December on the scholarship award. The AV-up Centre in Cologne, NRW supports young entrepreneurs from the diverse and increasingly convergent dominated the field of audiovisual media, wanting to gain a foot in NRW. To an individual support program was developed that contains both a financial assistance amounting to 10,000 € per scholarship, as well as a targeted consulting and coaching program offers. As a service and information center, the AV-founder Center NRW is working in close cooperation with the industry and serves as a door opener and paved the way for the future.

Also for the year 2012 14 scholarships are awarded to young media talent from the core area of ​​film and television production as well as companies from the sectors of new media and games. The total funding volume of scholarship and Coaching programs amounts to about 180,000 € per year.

Marc Jan Eumann (photo), Secretary of State for Federal Affairs, Europe and Media of North Rhine Westphalia:.. "Any self-evidence of courage and willingness to take risks with the scholarship program reduces the AV-founder NRW this risk and improve the prospects of media professionals This helps not only the financial support for scholarships, but still more their advice in all foundation questions. With the AV-incubator, the Film and Media Foundation and our universities we have in North Rhine-Westphalia, the best infrastructure for media-ups in Germany. And this will remain so. "

Applications are both graduates of the relevant universities and colleges, as well as emerging companies and business start-ups, the
- Work in various areas of the audiovisual media, games and new media,
- There are no more than three years on the market
And have their corporate headquarters in North Rhine-Westphalia -.

"Young Talents are the bearers of the future of the media in NRW. In addition to technical know-how, business knowledge and networking are vital to the industry. The Film and Media Foundation NRW therefore supports the AV-founder Center NRW in its activities and has promoted over the past five years, projects of fellows in the amount of date, some four million euros. ", Said Petra Mueller, managing director of film and media NRW .

Shareholders of AV-incubator was started in 2006 with the City of Cologne, NRW GmbH, Film and Media Foundation NRW, Grimme Institute, Magic Media Company TV production company and the Cologne Chamber of Commerce. The AV-founder NRW will also be directed by the state government of NRW, Film and Media Foundation NRW, LfM, the licensing agency for the VFF mbH film and television producers, video production and Caninenberg Act GmbH & Schouten

So far, 72 companies with 122 female entrepreneurs and founders mainly from the Land NRW, the State Institute for Media NRW (LfM), the Film and Media Foundation NRW, the city of Cologne, the Magic Media Company TV-production company and the VFF licensing agency for the film Television producers and promoted mbH. For more info: www.av-gruenderzentrum.