ArtistTalk.eu is a collaborative initiative by three contemporary art and new media centers from Eastern and central Europe to establish a platform for networking, education and exchange of new media and experimental art organisations on a European level. With focus on the importance of education in new media and contemporary art practices, The ArtistTalk.eu platform will give artists and cultural workers the opportunity to disseminate their knowledge and ideas, increase their visibility and enhance understanding of contemporary and new media art. Each partner organisation will organize a series of 50 Artist talks with local and invited artists per year, the talks will be recorded an available to wider public via ArtistTalk. internet platform. The project allows for creative input from each partner. On the long term, partners and future partners will develop new projects to create new strategies for the development of social projects through art initiatives, to underline the strengths and weaknesses of thedifferent cultural policies and artistic projects contributing to cultural policy development locally,nationally, regionally and at European level, etc.The project will focus on:1) alternative modes of educationPartner organisations will organise parallel activities, such as round tables, workshops and seminars, which will all be focusing on critical insight on contemporary and new media art.2) international exchangePartner organisations will organise an ArtistTalk.eu symposiums in 2013, where the best artist talks from each countries will be presented. The symposium will focus on alternative modes of education, new terminology in art, etc.The output of the project will be a series of events, an internet database with all the talks and an audiovisual publication with transcriptions of talks, dialogues, a research on the current and possible modes of alternative education in the field of art, a book with selected talks, a glossary of new terms in art.