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Format - Audiovisual Centre

A place where activities and history converge, from the Trentino Film Commission to the new Gio.co (Young Communicators) project.
All this and much more at Format, the former Audiovisual Centre of the Autonomous Province of Trento and now the graphic arts and multimedia hub where training, youth and cultural policies and filmmaking intertwine.

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Audiovisual Centre - Format, yesterday and today

The Audiovisual Centre of the Autonomous Province of Trento was opened in the first half of the 1980s in order to support school activities in the use of audiovisual media and technologies, which at that time were conspicuously appearing in society and in schools. In the 1990s, the Centre further increased its endowments in step with the digital and IT technological evolution, also introducing the loan of equipment. In 2007, after significant restructuring, the Audiovisual Centre was transformed into Format and became a place for meeting, studying and promoting audiovisual and media. With Resolution no. 620 of 23 April 2021, Format passed from the responsibilities of the Press Office to those of the Cultural Activities Service, and all audiovisual material and the video and media library of auteur cinema were transferred to the Library of the Province of Trento, in via Romagnosi 7, Trento, where they are still available for consultation and loan.
Resolution no. 1264 of 12 August 2024 entrusts Format once again to the Province's Press Office, which proposes to relaunch the Centre with initiatives in line with the current needs of the world of training and work.
The idea is to create a dynamic laboratory - a crossroads of ideas, creativity and professionalism - through which to establish a close network of links between the worlds of education and work. The first step in Format's conversion into a training hub dedicated to students and schools is'Gio-co' (acronym for 'young communicators'), a school-to-work alternation project in the communication sector to train young communicators. 'Gio-co' aims to enrich the Press Office's institutional mission with the practical training of students mainly from graphic arts and multimedia institutes, but also open to high school students. A 'gymnasium' that can not only promote the professional growth of young people but also help build solid bridges between institutions and the new generation of communicators. The young people accepted at Format will work on various graphic design, editing, video, and multimedia production projects and will carry out secretarial work for events and initiatives that are planned to be organised.

Format's services
  • Welcoming students in work-school alternation
  • Possibility of being supported by experienced communication journalists
Gio.Co. – Giovani Comunicatori: le attività del 2025

Let's start with a number: 2000. These are the number of school-to-work alternation hours that the project guaranteed to the Trentino school system in the first year of implementation. About 50 male and female students from ten local educational institutions were involved, for a total of about 60 hours of training and 120 hours of work experience. Three school-to-work alternation courses were launched. All this is thanks to the close cooperation between the Press Office and the Education Department of the Autonomous Province of Trento, which are still working together to give young people the opportunity to get closer to the world of communication and information and perhaps decide to build a professional future in this field. Each school/work alternation course covered a period of about two months and was structured through a first training part, with speakers from inside and outside the Province, who willingly made their professionalism available for the training of the young people, and a second part of field training during the major events organised by the Province: Festival of Economics and Festival of Sport. Thanks to the speeches by the Province's journalists, the boys and girls were able to learn how press offices are organised, how they work and what their objectives are. In addition, thanks to the collaboration with schools of graphic arts, students in curricular training were hosted at Format - the Province's Audiovisual Centre: their work was used by the Province as advertising pages and videos. The activity continues in 2026 and sees even more courses and activities planned than in the first year.

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