As far as we know, the Cartoon Masters are the only training seminars for European animation professionals that exist at European level.We are submitting 4 Masters in total: Two of them (Cartoon Business and Cartoon Digital) respond to the necessity in this fast-moving industry to monitor changes and provide to attending professionals some business intelligence tools and a technological watch that should improve their business activity in new financing and business models and in new digital formats.The other 2 Masters, Cartoon 360 and Cartoon Springboard are new events (replacing the former Cartoon Cine and Cartoon Training for Trainers). They are project-based so submitted to a selection regarding the projects that will be pitched ultimately during the event.CARTOON BUSINESS (former Cartoon Finance) is a seminar on the funding and exploitation of animation series.CARTOON DIGITAL is a seminar on the new creative and business opportunities enabled by underlying technological changes, new consumption modes and new formats for audiovisual content.CARTOON 360 (former Cartoon Cine) is a pitching event aimed at helping producers develop and turn their project into an animation cross-media brand. A few sessions also include didactic presentations made by key cross-media players.CARTOON SPRINGBOARD is a new project-based seminar aimed at helping new talents who have completed their education to improve and accelerate their access to the audiovisual and digital markets.The Cartoon Masters are designed to provide European animation professionals with the tools, knowledge and contacts they need to:- gain improved understanding of the market and anticipate changes;- increase their competitiveness and the circulation of their work;- integrate cross-media aspects early on in development;- strengthen their links with all operators (new and traditional) within the Creative Europe Programme through networking enabled by the right number of participants.