Enabling creative thinking. Enhancing creative skills. Empowering creative bravery.
Cannes Lions has been training the creative industry since 1995. In that time The Cannes Lions School has evolved from a one-off competition for rising creative stars, to a week-long event that takes in extensive and varied learning programmes and competitions designed to cater to multiple disciplines and career stages.
The World’s Biggest Creative Campus
This is the home of the Cannes Lions School: a sprawling campus supercharged with infectious creative energy, fuelled by a passion to overcome mediocrity and bustling with the industry’s best and brightest.
The Academies
The Cannes Lions Academies mould rising stars from across the world into the next generation of creative leaders. Open to any professional under 30, each Academy exposes high-potential talent to a career-changing learning experience, combining classroom sessions with world-class speakers, tutored by industry legends. Each academy agenda is carefully curated to enable you to return to your company inspired, braver and take your career to the next level.
The Campus
The location for all the classrooms right in the heart of the festival action. The 2017 campus is much improved: classrooms are bigger, noise pollution is minimised and sessions also taking place on the terrace overlooking the Cannes Lions Beach. Featuring delicious food, mobile charging stations and installations to interact with, this is a great base to explore the Festival from.
The Networking
With academies made up of agency and clients from across the world, you have the chance to meet and make connections with people of varied nationalities, skillsets and disciplines. On Sunday 18 June, we kick off with a joint academy presentation called Creativity Matters, followed by drinks. At the end of each day, all academies will hear a thought leadership session that builds their personal brand followed by some drinks
World-class speakers
The academies catapult participants straight into the industry and bring them face to face with their heroes. Each year, industry legends, award-winning writers, designers, entrepreneurs and the Festival’s main-stage speakers attend classroom sessions, pushing you to your creative limits, taking part in Q&As and offering up hard-earned advice.
The outcome
When the week is out, academy delegates return home more confident, more effective and better equipped to make better business decisions. Everyone who has taken part will have honed their craft, improved their knowledge base, learnt from the best, made new contacts, set new career goals and become a champion of creativity. They'll also have memories to last a lifetime.
Find the perfect academy for you
Young Creative Academy
**NOW SOLD OUT**
Designed to give young professionals the tools to reach their full potential.
Young Marketers Academy
Award-winning work starts with a creatively brave marketer.
Young Media Academy
Driving creative solutions for breakthrough results.
Executives
Strong leadership is key to business success. And no matter how high up the ladder you climb, there’s always room for improvement. The executive learning opportunities on offer at Cannes Lions cater to the development needs of senior leaders, helping them to drive performance and gain that all-important competitive edge by putting creativity at the heart of their organisations.
Find the perfect Executive course for you
Cannes Creative Leaders Programme
To help creative executives lead their teams, agencies and companies more successfully, Cannes Lions and the Berlin School of Creative Leadership offer a special two-week intensive training initiative taking place in Berlin and Cannes.
CMO Accelerator
This highly customised two-day programme is unlike any other currently available, enabling senior marketing leaders to return to their companies better prepared to deliver sustainable and endurable brand value.
Master of Creativity
A five-day professional qualification designed to help people with around seven years’ industry experience hone their skills in everything from selling creativity to strategic leadership.