INSA
INSA (Institut National de Sciences Appliquees / National Institute of Applied Sciences) is the French network of public engineering “grandes ecoles”. It is listed as a Champion in the FRAMES project that hosts One Small Crawl.
Facts
- full name: Institut National de Sciences Appliquees (INSA; accents folded to ASCII per wiki policy)
- type: public engineering and research institute (network of “grandes ecoles” under the French Ministry of Higher Education)
- founded: 1957 (first school, INSA Lyon)
- campuses: Lyon, Rennes, Rouen, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Centre Val de Loire, Hauts-de-France (plus INSA Euro-Mediterranee in Morocco)
- research strengths: engineering, computer science, AI, image/audio processing, XR and immersive media
Role in FRAMES and One Small Crawl
- Listed as a FRAMES Champion on the IBC2026 project page (“INSA National Institute of Applied Science”), alongside rai, ebu and movielabs. One Small Crawl is the IBC Accelerator 2026 proof-of-concept inside FRAMES (one-small-crawl).
- The FRAMES participant is INSA Hauts-de-France in Valenciennes (confirmed 2026-09-02 by the production team). INSA Hauts-de-France (Campus Mont-Houy, Valenciennes) is the newest INSA school (est. 2019); its Audiovisual and Multimedia engineering programme teaches XR production, spatial computing and generative AI - aligned with the FRAMES media/AI focus.
- Expected role: research/academic Champion input to archive tagging, semantics and agentic workflows in the proof-of-concept.
References (web)
- show.ibc.org - “FRAMES: Federated Retrieval, Agentic Media Environment…”
- groupe-insa.fr corporate information