Every year, around 100-120 students head out into the film and media world, with their diploma in their pockets. But that's not the end, it's just a new chapter in your relationship with FABW. You remain part of the “Filmakademie family”, and we welcome you to the alumni network!
The Alumni Network connects the more than 2,000 graduates of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg with one another and with their university. The contacts made during their studies can be maintained and expanded within the network. This also applies to the creative exchange on new joint film and media projects.
Alumni Management provides a framework for this, for example through networking, events and a regular newsletter.
The magic word for maintaining and continuously expanding the alumni network is: Student-Alumni Life Cycle. Ideally, this means that graduates become aware of the alumni network while they are still students, realise that they are part of this community when they graduate, at the latest, and remain loyal to it for the rest of their lives.
This is not primarily about nostalgia, but about the benefits that both the alumni and the university can derive from it. At the Filmakademie, for example, a number of alumni are active in teaching as guest lecturers, in programme coordination or project support.
Alumni Management actively promotes the connection between alumni and the Filmakademie, for example through annual alumni meetings during the Berlinale or at the international specialist congress FMX - Film & Media Exchange in Stuttgart.
In addition, a regularly published alumni newsletter keeps graduates updated on current developments at FABW. It also provides information about job and workshop offers as well as scholarships and bursaries.
On the alumni homepage, alumni themselves have the opportunity to update their profiles and thus draw the industry's attention to themselves or register for events.
Offers that go beyond the course of studies and are geared towards the transition to professional life as well as talent development initiatives can be found in the Beyond Study section of the Animationsinstitut website.
