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.

U-Matic remains a critical format for many archives, with aging machines and complex mechanical systems that demand careful handling. This one-hour webinar introduces core maintenance and diagnostic concepts for legacy U-Matic playback equipment.

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This is the fourth in a series of sessions focused on the care, maintenance, and troubleshooting of legacy equipment. While this series will not train you to become a repair technician, it will introduce basic maintenance practices, help you identify common issues and simple fixes, and offer guidance on diagnosing when equipment should be sent for professional repair.

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

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.

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.