These professional organizations have a common goal of promoting and encouraging the preservation and the accessibility of the world's audiovisual heritage.
[1] The CCAAA member organisations work with many AV materials including: films, TV, radio, photographs and audio recordings.
A major early project was organizing a Joint Technical Symposium of preservation experts from around the world, to be held every few years.
By 1999 it was felt that the Roundtable needed to become more proactive in shaping policy in the audiovisual archive field, to include lobbying for greater preservation efforts worldwide.
The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is organised by CCAAA for AV specialists interested in audio-visual, cinema and sound heritage.