Animateka International Animated Film Festival and all the activities attached to it are essential for education of the general public in Slovenia and its surrounding regions in the field of animated film. The Eastern and Central European Competition Programme is the core of the festival and every year the quality level in this programme rises, which confirms our choice to promote authorial animation film from a specific geographical region was well oriented. With the introduction of the European Student and the International Animation for Children competition programmes, the festival achieved a wider international recognition. With the 2014 edition we are adding one more sloth to the European Student Competition Programme and in that way we will further promote the creativity of European students. Another very important novelty that we started in 2013 and we want to reinforce in 2014 is the Open Platform, the Animateka Pro side of the festival, where young authors will have the chance to get information and professional directions from invited authors, producers, distributors and festival programmers. We strive to further strengthen our ties with regional festivals, specifically by inviting representatives from partner festivals that place a strong emphasis on programming high quality animation films for children and young audiences. As every year, the festival is looking for new partnerships among cultural institutions in Ljubljana. In 2014 the National Museum of Slovenia will host the exhibition of Contemporary German Animated Film and will thus be included in the list of festival venues, with the objective to attract new audiences and to increase the total number of festival attendance. As the distribution of quality European feature animated films in Slovenia is very modest, the festival will once again fill the gap with short term distribution of European animated features, with the objective to enforce the cinematographic distribution of at least two films.