Collaboration with Centre de Formation Professionnelle aux Techniques du Spectacle Paris Rose Bruford College is collaborating with Centre de Formation Professionnelle aux Techniques du Spectacle Paris on a three-year project supported through European Leonardo de Vinci funding. The project is researching the use of new technologies alongside the development of new production structures and the evolution of economic frameworks as they affect technical and administrative personnel in the live performance industries. FIRCTE projects (part of the The Leonardo da Vinci programme) Rose Bruford is also part of a network of technical/artistic training institutions, theatres and professional organisations operating in the field of performing arts in Europe who have been developing the FIRCTE projects, which seek to improve and develop the vocational training in theatre production techniques.