Doc Alliance Academy (DA Academy) is a common educational platform operated by seven key documentary film festivals: CPH:DOX, Doclisboa, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF, Doc Against Gravity Film Festival (former Planete Doc Review) and Visions du Réel, associated in Doc Alliance since 2008. The aim of Doc Alliance is to advance the documentary genre, support its diversity and continuously promote quality creative documentary films, including the unique online distribution portal DAFilms.com. DA Academy pursues its main objective – to foster development in film literacy – by two main activities: 1) running the web portal DAAcademy.org – an online platform for people active in film education (educators and secondary school students) offering a catalogue of carefully selected documentary films suitable for film education, accompanied by methodologies and other information tools, linked to the existing DAFilms.com and 2) organizing an annual international lab as a climax of DA Academy’s year-round activities focused on exchanging know-how and practices across seven European countries. The focus is on specific features and innovations of each of the partners, with participation of educational experts from each country who will offer their skills and knowledge as an inspirational source for other people active in film education. The common DA Academy project interconnects the existing educational activities of its partners on the level of sharing experience and know-how, exchanging the individual models among partner countries, common mapping of their development with the aim of creating more efficient models of involving students and educators, incorporating films in the educational process, promotion etc.DA Academy enables a wider distribution and use of the unique DAFilms.com collection of contemporary as well as archive European documentary films.