Catherine Buresi has been named the successor to Raymond Ravar as chief executive of the MEDIA Programme-supported, Brussels-based European producers training programme EAVE (Les Entrepreneurs De L'Audiovisuel Europeen).

A graduate herself of EAVE's 1995 session, Buresi was in charge of the audiovisual policy of the City of Strasbourg and head of the local Media Antenna for the past ten years and intends to carry on Ravar's work, at the same time adapting the EAVE programmes constantly to the needs of the audiovisual industry. In her new job, Buresi will be supported by Alan Fountain, formerly Senior Commissioning Editor at the UK's Channel 4, who succeeded Eckart Stein as EAVE Head of Studies in 2000.

EAVE was founded by Ravar, then director of INSAS in Brussels, and Stein in 1988 and trained more than 600 producers from 18 countries of the European Union, including Peter Broughan, Leontine Petit, Ed Guiney, Peter Rommel, Hubert Toint, Alex Usborne, Carl-Erdmann Schoenfeld and Diana Elbaum, bringing them together with such film and TV decision-makers as Nik Powell, Andrea Calderwood, Leo Pescarolo, Susan Schulte, Rod Stoneman and Per Holst.