Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) organises the yearly FRAME training programme, with the support of EBU Academy, FIAT/IFTA, and the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. The 2026 edition of FRAME starts with the opening of the FRAME Mentoring call for applications, until 8 April.

The programme is addressed to all junior professionals (around max. 5 years of experience at the same or similar position) working in the audiovisual field. It aims at supporting them in their career path development and at implementing one of their project. 2 applicants will be selected.

The mentoring programme includes:

  • Monthly online exchanges with your mentor and other relevant experts, from June to December 2026
  • A professional immersion for two weeks at INA or in the mentor’s organisation, during the autumn 2026
  • An Accreditation to the next FIAT/IFTA World Conference, which will be organised in Sao Paolo (Brazil) on 6-9 October 2026.
  • All expenses (flights, hotels, lunches) are 100% covered by the programme scholarship.

 

FRAME Mentoring is primarily addressed to professionals involved in a project ongoing or to be launched soon. The mentee’s project could deal with (non-exhaustive list):
– Design and implementation of an archiving workflow
– Collect of audiovisual archives
– Preservation of audiovisual archives physical carriers
– Digitisation
– Audiovisual and film restauration
– Digital archive management
– Digital archive long term preservation
– Management, notably of an audiovisual archives department
– Documentation
– Implementation of a database and definition of data models
– Rights management
– Research and scientific access and projects using audiovisual archives
– Educative access and projects using AV archives
– General audience access project using AV archives
– Production of audiovisual contents based on archives (film, documentary, digital and innovative contents)
– Post-disaster handling of collections

 

More information about FRAME Mentoring 2026 and to apply

 

More information about the new FRAME training programme

 
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