About INA & FRAME – elearning

The French National Audiovisual Institute – INA

Content creation, production and distribution, initial and vocational training in the media and digital fields, management of audiovisual heritage, research and innovation, educational and cultural partnerships… The scope of INA’s activities is vast and varied. As a publicly-owned corporation, INA has worked to ensure the long-term preservation of France’s media heritage since its founding, in 1975. Today, INA archives French radio television and media websites, develops innovative ways to deliver content to all types of audiences, and shares its knowledge and practice of the media and digital fields worldwide.

What is FRAME ?

Since 2010, INA organised the annual training programme FRAME in partnership with FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) and EBU Academy (European Broadcasting Union). FRAME is a co-funded by the Creative Europe – MEDIA programme of the European Union.

The public

FRAME is dedicated to the international community of professionals working in the field of audiovisual archives. The training sessions are designed for professionals involved in the management and use of archives whatever their level of knowledge and competencies, whether for media organizations, broadcasters, cinematheques, patrimonial institutions, production companies, etc.

Training programme

FRAME consists in 3 sessions per year, which cover each step of the audiovisual archival content management process:

– FRAME Tech is a one-week training session, dealing with the preservation of digital archives, digitization of old analog archives, media and storage management

– FRAME Expert, is 1/2 day thematic workshop organized during the FIAT/IFTA international Conference, and aiming in priority the top managers

– FRAME Access is a one-week training session, dealing with rights management, documentation, cataloguing and promotion of archive contents toward various audiences.

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The courses and workshops are delivered in English by recognized European and international audiovisual archives and digital media experts. Each year, the training programme is updated to match with current technical and technological evolutions in the sector and to correspond to professionals’ expectations and needs. To do so, it is defined by a pedagogical committee, with members of INA, FRAME’s partners FIAT/IFTA and EBU Academy, and associated partners, meemoo (Belgium) and the Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Netherlands). Since 2017, one the two one-week session is organized in a European partner institution premises:

2017, FRAME Access: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision)

2018, FRAME Access : Raidió Teilifís Éireann – RTÉ (Radio Television of Ireland)

2019, FRAME Access : Televiziunea Româna – TVR (Public Television of Romania)