ESoDoc - European Social Documentary is the training initiative for media professionals and “cross-thinkers” who want to increase impact and outreach of their documentary films and cross-media projects by developing new storytelling skills, networking over different platforms, discovering new forms of team building, of producing and financing with the help of the crowd and new distribution strategies. The objective of ESoDoc – European Social documentary is to make the professionals of the audiovisual industry more competitive on transnational and international level, by transmitting a series of skills that will enable them to respond quickly to the changes of the audiovisual markets.We explore new formats (crossmedia projects, Virtual Reality, fiction-documentary hybrids, web-documentaries and animation) to find and foster new production possibilities (collaborative, participated and interdisciplinary) and new distribution strategies (impact and outreach) for traditional and new platforms (TV, cinema, the web in its wider meaning, from social networks to online newspapers).ESoDoc offers three one-week residential sessions held over a period of six month, combined with extended online sessions for project tutoring and networking with festivals and other market events. During the workshops, participants are tutored by a network of international experts on the development of the projects. Emphasis is placed on building up strong storytelling along with new production possibilities (participatory media) and partnerships across sectors.. ESoDoc trains its participants to be better equipped for the challenges of the changing audiovisual market, and enables the filmmakers to better engage audiences across different platforms and maximize the outreach and impact of the projects.The workshop is open for professional with or without an own project. Participants applying without a project will get the possibility to develop one in a team during the training.