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TF1 Foundation is one of the proudest achievements of the Group and its people. For close to 20 years, the Foundation has worked tirelessly to build ties between young people and the media. Why? Because we believe it’s only through openness, dialogue and transparency that we can understand each other better, and learn from one another. We’re a hands-on organisation, focused on two key areas we see as crucial not only for the future of our industry, but also for social cohesion: equality of opportunity, and media education. Our initiatives, backed by amazing commitment across the TF1 family, are shaping a more inclusive media landscape and raising awareness of how the news works. It’s all part of the media’s role in bringing people together.

Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Foundation Chief Operating Officer

TF1 Foundation in numbers

Success Bursaries

5,300

people reached by media education initiatives in 2025

contributions to Press Week

700K €

annual budget

What we do

Photo de Clarisse et Christophe, une étudiante mentee avec son mentor journaliste

Equality of opportunity

At TF1 Foundation, we believe that businesses flourish when they hire people from a wide range of backgrounds. TF1 Foundation has been striving for equal opportunities since 2008, with a focus on young people from priority urban development zones, isolated rural areas, and hard-to-reach communities around France. In 2026, we’re launching our Success Bursaries programme, supporting 15 students studying for a Masters in broadcasting, journalism or film. The aim: to help them succeed in their studies, and transition smoothly into the world of work. It’s not just about funding: each bursary-holder is mentored by a TF1 group industry specialist. And the Foundation itself is always there for the students, whether helping with job searches or with accommodation for young people from the French regions. And from September 2026, we will also be offering annual Project Bursaries to provide financial support for broadcast media projects developed by young people.

Media education

It’s crucially important to combat disinformation, and to raise awareness of how news content is generated. In 2023, TF1 Foundation took on the role of developing media and news education initiatives for TF1 group. We organise regular News Encounters, in partnership with TF1 news teams and media educator CLEMI. Hosted at our Paris HQ and in the French regions, these events encourage dialogue between journalists and students from schools and colleges – helping them think critically, distinguish real from fake, and better understand how the news works. And we’re expanding these Encounters to take in other aspects of the media world such as artificial intelligence, advertising and drama. Every year, our Foundation organises TF1’s contribution to Press and Media Week in French schools, which sees journalists from TF1, LCI and TF1Info going into classrooms to talk to students. And since 2024, we have been partnering with the French Prisons Authority to deliver a media education programme within the prison system.

Apply for a Success Bursary

2026 sees the launch of our new equal opportunities programme: Success Bursaries The aim: supporting 15 students from priority urban development zones, isolated rural areas, and hard-to-reach communities around France, to pursue higher education in broadcasting, journalism or film. The programme offers both financial and human support (mentoring, and help finding accommodation) across the two years of a Masters degree. It’s an annual programme, open for applications each spring.

Meet our bursary-holders and their mentors

Marie Koby and her mentor Ouafa Bejaoui

Samira Meryl Kla and her mentor Laurent Ribeyrolles

Elsa Fundenberger and her mentor Laurent Lefevre

Galatée Parson and her mentor Anne Barrier

Clément Barcelo and his mentor Christelle Bonnin

Clarisse Marion and her mentor Christophe Abel

Our partners

Ville de Boulogne-Billancourt

Thanks to the City of Boulogne-Billancourt, young people supported by the Foundation can have access to student accommodation close to the TF1 tower.

La Chance

La Chance promotes diversity in the media. Every year, its 350 journalists work pro bono to prepare around 80 scholarship holders for competitions to enter the schools of journalism in Bordeaux, Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Grenoble and Rennes. The TF1 Foundation has been supported La Chance since 2021.

Journalism Conference in Tours

The TF1 Foundation is a partner of the Journalism Conference in Tours since 2017. Every year we sponsor the EMI prize and fund a school media/news education initiative. The Conference is backed by all those working in the industry and respects the freedom of all. Above all, the Conference provides a venue for free-form conversations and discussions on journalism and its practice.

CLEMI

CLEMI (the centre for media and news education) is responsible for media and news education throughout the French education system. Its mission is to promote pluralism in the use of sources of news in education, with the aim of promoting better comprehension among the world’s school children. Partnering with CLEMI, the TF1 Foundation organises 6 “Encounters” per year, , privileged moments of exchange between students and journalists from TF1 and LCI, participates in the “Press Week” and promotes meetings between young people and information professionals from the TF1 Group.

Emmaüs Alternatives

Since 2024, the TF1 Foundation organize with Emmaüs Alternatives its “Winter Solidarity” campaign, a fundraising drive among TF1 Group employees. The mission of Emmaüs Alternatives is to fight injustice and various forms of exclusion. Every day it takes in and supports the most deprived, helps them become more independent and find work. As a springboard to work, Emmaüs Alternatives aims to create alternatives to the street, precarious living and unemployment.

Lumières sur l'info

Lumières de l'info is an independent media education association with professional journalists. Since 2024, the TF1 Foundation is supporting the "Camion de l'Info" (News Truck), a mobile market truck that travels nationally and regionally to meet with French people who feel disconnected from the news, in order to promote pluralistic, reliable, and local news..

JobIRL

"JobIRL - Orientation In Real Life" is the 1st education counselling network that connects young people aged 14-30 and professionals. JobIRL wishes to provide a concrete and complementary solution to existing organizations and guidance tools and also allows young people to develop their own professional network, thus promoting equal opportunities. Since 2024, the TF1 Foundation support the “My Customized Work-Study” program.