CinEd - European Cinema Education for Youth (working title) is a European initiative to improve and expand cinema education for young people aged 6 to 19 and above in Europe. Led by the Institut français (IF), it brings together partners from 7 countries - France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Romania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic - committed to film education. The initiative will, via a digital platform, make a catalogue of European films (fiction/animation/ documentary/ recent, heritage films) and associated educational resources available to teachers/educators and as many young people as possible in those and all other EU countries. CinEd’s public film screenings and educational activities will educate youth audiences in European films, focusing on cinema as an art for, educating the ‘eyes’: i.e. developing skills for understanding and critically watching films, analysing and appreciating film content, cinematography and technical aspects. This will in turn contribute to development of the European film industry.Created by IF in 2011, the digital platform IFcinéma has been tried-and-tested in proposing a catalogue of French films abroad for not-for-profit public screenings to wider audiences, including, since 2014, a French film literacy section. CinEd will now adapt and apply the platform as a mechanism for development of European film literacy initiatives in Europe, focusing on European cinema education for a diverse European youth audience. Based on partners’ collective experience/skills, CinEd will, collaboratively, select and promote films from European countries which have exceptional artistic qualities and cross-cultural resonance, as well as do training, produce educational resources, facilitate peer-learning and other activities in a holistic approach. The European-specific platform and the partners’ combined skills will enhance cinema education and produce educational materials and training with a European dimension devised for the target audience.