The project development workshop under the name BDC Discoveries is a continuous training program, aimed at uniting professionals with documentary projects with an international potential, and helping them to get exposed to potential financiers and partners on the European film market. For the last 6 years, BDC Discoveries established itself as the leading training programme on the Balkans. It is the only one Bulgarian initiative of this kind and the only one supported by Creative Europe-MEDIA. The focus of BDC Discoveries is unique and fills in a specific niche – namely, we aim at projects, either originating from the Balkans or dealing with a Balkan-related subject and thus in need of local partner and/or co-producer.The mission of BDC Discoveries in 2015 was to assist starting projects in the phase ofdevelopment, providing a specific coaching with the means of expertise and extensive feedback. Our team puts strong emphasis on building strong and long-term relations with participants, tutors and decision-makers. For this year’s edition 8 creative documentary projects were selected, coming from more than 10 European countries. Priority was given to projects, which tackle acute social issues, offering the viewer various perspectives on the subject with a creative approach and thus provoking a societal debate and engagement of civil society. All of the projects selected demonstrated high co-production and international funding potential. We were happy to observe very positive development progress in the selected projects during the time of the training. Some of them applied for domestic funding or secured international grants.We believe that the training format of BDC Discoveries is unique, as it targets a specific region – the Balkans – with the goal to strengthen and support the development of the documentary industry and the potential for international collaboratations. BDC Discoveries consists of three different modules, conducted in three different locations – Sofia, Bulgaria/ Prizren, Kosovo (during DokuFest) and a European market (different each year, in 2015 it was Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival).