DA Academy is a new project of the Doc Alliance association of seven European film festivals, focused on the education of young audiences through documentary. Until now, each of the festivals has been building partial programmes working with film audiences, aimed at both young audiences – pupils from primary schools, high schools and university students – as well as at teachers lecturing on film and media studies. The diversity of the programmes corresponds to the different levels of national policies of film education in the individual countries, the possibilities of the festivals as well as the different forms of national funding.The goal of this project, which is naturally based on our plans of broadening collaboration among DA festivals, is to enable the sharing of particular models of and experience with film education activities across seven European countries, leading to their further development and reaching broader group of young audiences by offering them a rich variety of documentary works and their teachers effective teaching methods. The initiative is conceived in a long-term perspective. In the short run, it is necessary to explore the particular models of education in great detail and to improve their workings on the basis of sharing concrete experience among individual tutors and organizers. This will be facilitated by an annual meeting of organizers of these activities and the key lecturers, by sharing educational materials and creating a common strategy of their development. In the long run, we will build an educational network supporting film education on various levels – within festivals, at schools and by offering an unlimited access to the teaching methods and films via Doc Alliance Academy portal. We are convinced that sharing experience across the individual festivals is the best way to facilitate the way of young audiences to European films, their ability to understand them, critically perceive them and make choices.