Together with Hans Heesen from Amsterdam, Brian Ward from London and Pavel Jech from Prague I initiated the Program Writers for Europe. The Program was launched in 2010 as a symposium in Berlin, during the meeting of the screenwriters departments of the Deutsche Film und Fernseh Akademie Berlin (DFFB), the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield (NFTS), and the Netherlands Film Academy. In the years that followed, this has grown into a regular meeting between these schools including the film school of Prague (FAMU), and has been organized alternately in one of these cities. When I left as head of the DFFB Screenwriting Department I could not prevent the DFFB from falling out of the program and being replaced by Barcelona. 

The goal of the symposium was and still is to help students develop a sense for European stories, and projects with international appeal. To learn through collaboration to go across linguistic and national boundaries, and become the leading international screenwriters of the near future. The first session was documented in a booklet.

Some of the  keynotes I have been holding on various occasions over the years:
What borders supply about the value of limitations and bounderies for film narration
The space we live in  about space as a category of film narration
Once upon a time... about Fairy Tales As a Literary Model for Cinematic Storytelling
Stories told by ghosts about voice over narration as invisible storyteller
Soil about the ground we live on