These workshops always take place on a Thursday. Possible formats include presentations plus a panel discussion and hands-on teaching. More can be developed as we gain experience. We don’t aim at experts. Usually, no previous experience is required. Advanced levels are marked as such and will provide knowledge for those who want to explore topics into more depths. The number of participants vary depending on the nature of the specific workshop, but is generally be limited to enhance knowledge transfer and discussion. No fee is charged, but participants have to register and places are limited. Information on how and when to register will be posted in the online calendar.

Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) organises the yearly FRAME training programme, with the support of EBU, 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 March 22nd.

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 his/her 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 São Paulo, 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

A 12-week, 14-session, the Foundations for Practice series offers a structured introduction to audiovisual archiving. Designed for those responsible for collections that include AV materials, exploring new career paths, or new to the field, it is an accessible foundation in the core concepts, terminology, and workflows essential to AV preservation and access.

Structured as a synchronous, cohort-based learning experience aligned with AMIA’s Pathways Fellowship, class size is limited to support engagement, continuity, and connection among cohort members throughout the series.  More about the program and what to expect is here.

Through presentations, discussion, and shared conversation, cohort members will gain insight into the unique challenges and practical realities of caring for audiovisual materials across a range of formats, collections, and institutional environments.. Sessions are led by experienced practitioners working across a range of institutional and community-based contexts, offering both technical grounding and real-world perspective. The series also provides an opportunity to connect with colleagues across the field, begin building professional networks, and engage in conversation with others working in or exploring audiovisual preservation.

Ten curriculum sessions cover key areas of audiovisual archiving, including:

Identifying AV formats and understanding risk factors
Preservation of analog film, video, and audio materials
Digital preservation fundamentals, including file structures and integrity
AV-specific cataloging practices
Collections management approaches for AV materials
Related and supporting materials
Ethical considerations in contemporary AV archiving
Copyright and an introduction to fair use

After curriculum sessions are completed, participants have the option to attend four additional office hours sessions. These sessions, featuring practitioners from different areas of the field, are designed as informal opportunities for discussion and exchange. Past topics have included curation, publishing, community engagement, and archives management, among others.

Most sessions will be held on Fridays at 12:00 pm (Pacific) and run for 90 minutes, with three sessions scheduled the week of June 15th. Session dates and times are listed here. As a cohort-based program, regular attendance is expected to support the shared learning experience. Each session includes time for questions and discussion, encouraging engagement and connection among participants and instructors.

The series is intended to offer a supportive entry point into the field and its evolving practices for those  beginning to explore audiovisual archiving or seeking to better care for AV materials within your collections.

The institutions behind the Summer School have come together once again in order to renew and strengthen their long lasting cooperation, a bond that aims to pursue the spread of film preservation and conservation through the international community. Specialists, film archive staff and students that are looking forward to experience the complete restoration workflow in our experienced film restoration laboratory, are more than welcome to apply.

Applications are open until 15 February 2026. Program and application form can be downloaded on L'Immagine Ritrovata website.

As GenAI technologies increasingly shape how media is created, modified, and reused, archives face a range of questions related to authenticity, provenance, intellectual property, and ethical use. Developed by practitioners from across the field in TAI’s interdisciplinary Working Groups, , and refined through a community review process, these tools provide practical guidance to support the stewardship of archival materials in this evolving context.

This free, four-part webinar series introduces the Trust in Archives Initiative’s AI Toolkit for Archives.

Each session highlights one of the tools and is led by members of the working groups who developed them. The webinars combine presentation with time for discussion and questions. Participants will have the opportunity to explore shared challenges, compare approaches, and consider how these tools may be adapted across different organizational contexts, while also looking ahead to how the tools may evolve and what additional resources may be needed.

About the Peer Learning Forum: Starting in July 2026, FIAF is launching an online discussion series that will focus on one topic each year, featuring references or working methods based on practice or research. Its aims are to give archivists opportunities to exchange experiences with similar challenges, reflect on a specific topic, and to expand FIAF’s pool of knowledgeable trainers.

Organized by: Lisabona Rahman (Training & Outreach Coordinator), Sreya Chatterjee (Technical Commission member), and Clara Sánchez-Dehesa (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, FIAF Supporter).

Content: What are the recent ideas, practices and studies within the film preservation field that give us strategies to cope with high temperature and humidity? This first FIAF Training & Outreach Peer Learning Forum will discuss strategies emerging from the working experiences of colleagues dealing with high temperature and humidity as the norm. The Forum will start as a reading assignment and online discussion, followed by two online experience-sharing sessions held in English and Spanish.

Target Group: People interested in the conservation of analogue and digital film, especially archivists who practice it or are responsible for making policies. As much as possible, the organizers will facilitate discussions in English and in Spanish. The schedule of the events also takes into account different time zones, to accommodate participants in as many geographical locations as possible. 

Note that number participants will be limited, for participant comfort and interactivity. Selected participants will be expected to attend all three sessions. Only those who have will be entitled to receive a course completion certificate. 

For more info on the Forum and its schedule, visit the website.

As GenAI technologies increasingly shape how media is created, modified, and reused, archives face a range of questions related to authenticity, provenance, intellectual property, and ethical use. Developed by practitioners from across the field in TAI’s interdisciplinary Working Groups, , and refined through a community review process, these tools provide practical guidance to support the stewardship of archival materials in this evolving context.

This free, four-part webinar series introduces the Trust in Archives Initiative’s AI Toolkit for Archives.

Each session highlights one of the tools and is led by members of the working groups who developed them. The webinars combine presentation with time for discussion and questions. Participants will have the opportunity to explore shared challenges, compare approaches, and consider how these tools may be adapted across different organizational contexts, while also looking ahead to how the tools may evolve and what additional resources may be needed.

The Digital Archives Summer School is a 5-day, practice-oriented course aimed at people working in audiovisual archives who are interested in enhancing their knowledge about digital environments and processes related to digital archives. In the fourth edition, we will focus on digitization processes and the technical metadata that they generate. We will hear input lectures on topics such as planning and prioritization, evaluation, and disposal of digitized material. There will also be an introduction to cataloguing with a focus on technical metadata. We will be guided by the resources of the Cataloguing and Documentation Commission of the FIAF. The final part will deal with data governance in the field of Artificial Intelligence. We will learn how to set up our own open AI instance with relatively little effort.

The "Digital Archives" Summer School is organized by the Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in collaboration with the Bundesarchiv and FINA, as well as with support from FIAF, which will award scholarships of 500 EUR each to five Summer School participants. Applications for these scholarships are open until 8 May.

Time Base Correctors (TBCs) are workhorses in your analog-to-digital signal chain, and they can have an important impact in the quality of your transfer. This course introduces the TBC models most commonly used in archival preservation work, explains how they function within a signal chain, and walks through practical troubleshooting and routine maintenance steps you can perform in-house. It also covers the most common models used in archival preservation work, procurement strategies for tracking down functional units, best practices for extending device lifespan, and a curated list of vendors trusted by the preservation community for repairs that require specialized expertise.

Save the date for the second edition of the FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab! In 2026 FIAF and the Deutsche Kinemathek are again jointly organizing the FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab in Berlin. Immediately before the film heritage festival Film Restored, film education stakeholders and members of the FIAF community will meet to discuss topics related to film education and outreach, this year with a particular focus on archival films and the educational work with film materials.

The annual FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab offers an opportunity to reflect on the present and future of education as well as outreach in the field of film heritage. The lab engages with diverse concepts and perspectives on film education, presents exemplary outreach and education programs and puts examples into practice. In addition, the lab makes it possible to address field- and topic-specific but also social challenges and develop solutions or even joint projects within the network. In this way, film heritage education can be strengthened from many different perspectives (aesthetically, historically, media-critically, creatively, and practically).

The FIAF Autumn Lab intends to offer film archives, cinematheques and film museums, as well as committed specialists in the field of film education, a regularly recurring platform for exchange, knowledge transfer and networking. It has been conceived as a joint and collaborative structure in which FIAF-affiliated institutions – but also beyond – are invited to exchange ideas and help shape the content, methods and priorities of future educational work. 

For more information, please check the website.