The project idea “EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE ACADEMY – FROM SCHOOL TO FIRST JOB” was inspired by European traditions of ancient, renaissance, enlightenment and postmodern techniques of knowledge transfer. Today’s system of educating theatre workers is creating clones. Young directors find themselves at a new beginning after finishing school, unprepared for artistic and organizational challenges in a time of crisis. They have mastered methodologies, but lack live contact with creators. Their professors are university lecturers without much experience of working with actors and without the organisational skills of working in institutions. We offer young directors who have just finished school two weeks of intensive work with master directors, in established theatrical institutions. They will be monitored by top specialists, dramaturges and scenographers. The young directors’ work will be presented in special events, attended by the media and a wide circle of the audiences of the theatres hosting the actions.We call the students of our experimental Academy the new generation; they are directors who are about to or have just graduated. The Academy’s most important task is to lead young directors towards practical work. They are helped in this by established directors. Work with the latter will allow the young directors to get to know the institutions with which their more senior colleagues have already been cooperating for many years. The critical potential displayed by the young in the sensitive period between school and professional engagement should be exploited to help them develop so they can join institutions as the natural successors of the masters. Workshops, laboratories and ateliers at our Academy link teaching, the transmission of knowledge and skills, with research as the engine of innovation. The act of transmission must be performed in the context of the masters’ research. Masters usually have two months available for research.