To enhance collaboration between research and archive communities and ensure the valorization of academic knowledge for archival practice as well as to promote research of holdings of member television archives, the Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives has set up the Media Studies Grant. This programme offers support for research done at member television archives with the aim to study archival material or archiving practices from these institutions. Priority is given to projects that research topics that are relevant for the history of the archive institution, for European television history or for archival practice.

» The Governance of cultural memory through audiovisual broadcast archives preservation and accessibility in four European countries
» The Intervision Song Contest – Dean Vuletic
» Making the Viewer Female – Sarah Arnold
» Broadcast Anniversaries as Key Elements of Media History. A Research Study – Magdalena Reitbauer
» Discovering Film on Television fragments from the RTÉ Archives – Sian Barber