Nicole Witt //
After giving full-day seminars for the Invitation Programme of the Frankfurt Book Fair during seven years in a row, this year Nicole Witt held two shorter online seminars on Rights & Licences for the Frankfurt Global Network Programme.
In 2025 the Frankfurt Fellowship and the Frankfurt Invitation Programmes merge to one unique programme combining different features of the old programmes.The Frankfurt Invitation Programme founded in the 1970s, was always supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany. It has enabled numerous publishers from developing book nations to participate in the biggest industry meeting, so that they could form networks and act in the book market worldwide. The Frankfurt Fellowship Programme was launched in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Frankfurter Buchmesse. The programme focused on the exchange of information, professional dialogue, and the expansion of an international book industry network.
The new programme Frankfurt Global Network includes visits to publishers and bookstores, market presentations, guided tours, matchmaking events, and numerous networking opportunities in Frankfurt and Zürich (Switzerland) as well as at Frankfurter Buchmesse, where the participants will exhibit their books at a joint booth. This year’s programme focusses on literary fiction.
> https://www.buchmesse.de/en/fellowship-and-grant-programmes/frankfurt-global-network
The participants were publishers from 14 countries across four continents. The workshop helped the participants prepare for dealing with international rights discussions, including rights trading across borders and negotiating and drafting license agreements.
Some voices of the participants:
"Thank you for the exciting seminar last week – I am already looking forward to the next one."
Joakim Nørregaard, People's Press, Denkmark
"Thank you for the brilliant seminar."
Luiza Lewkowicz, DBA, Brazil
