The aim of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion (IAD, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) is to train professional artistes who mix creativity, artistic sensibility, technical mastery and communicational skills. IAD is used to opening its students up to the world around them and transmitting values of responsibility, solidarity and boldness.

Since 1959, IAD has trained more than 4000 professionals who have earned recognized positions in the Belgian audiovisual or theatrical spectrum. Eager to keep a closely related to the evolutions of the society, IAD provides trainings in the audiovisual field and performing arts: film direction, production, script, editing and continuity, image, sound, infography, multimedia, dramatic performance and theatrical direction. The school also provides senior secondary teaching qualifications, as well as continuing trainings in audiovisual management, musical management, performing arts management and radio animation.

Entry to IAD is submitted to an admission test. Info about it can be found on the « Futur étudiant » part of the website www.iad-arts.be.

In the frame of its international policy, IAD has been working for twenty years with African or Asian countries to set up audiovisual and performing arts trainings.

The MIIL (Media innovation and intelligibility Lab) is the UCLouvain’s innovative platform focused on digital production and appropriation. It provides a large scale of equipment and skills devoted to cutting-edge scientific research, pedagogical devices (Moocs, Podcasts, etc.) and audiovisual needs of corporate and private partners.

Founded in January 2016, the association Les Medias Francophones Publics is a forum of French-speaking medias sharing activities of production and watch.

The programs and experiences exchanges between these French-speaking partners focus on a plurimedia approach (radio-TV-Web). The association also helps the partners to build common projects; it claims a genuine creativity and initiates coproduction projects. The members of the Medias Publics Francophones are: Radiofrance, France TV, TV5 Monde, RFI, Radio Canada, Télé-Québec, RTBF, RTS, TV5 Québec-Canada, TFO.