The Ministry of Culture welcomes the success of this call for projects with nearly 660 applications received, of which 237 will be eligible for funding.
To support cultural projects aimed at strengthening the mastery of the French language, this call for projects worth one million euros was renewed by the Ministry of Culture in February 2019. It is part of the President of the Republic’s plan for the French language and the Francophonie. Indeed, “our language is essential to our republican pact and social cohesion” as Franck Riester, Minister of Culture, recalled on February 12 at a meeting at the Ministry of Culture.
As in 2015 and 2017, the large number of projects received is a sign that culture has a major role to play in reducing inequalities in the French language.
The 237 projects selected will facilitate access to the French language for a large number of people who, because they are often excluded from it, encounter difficulties in their social, professional and cultural life.
Aimed at cultural actors, as well as social and socio-educational stakeholders, this call for projects supports actions that combine learning and practicing the French language and artistic practice for the benefit of people in difficulty with French.
The projects selected target adults who do not know the written language, young people aged 16 to 25 who are unemployed and without qualifications, non-French-speaking migrants, as well as school children who benefit from arts and cultural education outside school time. Detainees, as well as minors covered by the judicial protection of youth are also concerned.
Les 225 local projects Selected territories concern extremely varied territories – urban, peri-urban, rural, political districts of the city – in metropolis as in the overseas territories, which have in common to be marked by various forms of remoteness or isolation. They are completed by 12 tooling and training projects chosen for their ability to be shared for the benefit of networks of culture and social field.
In 2019, the call for projects is led at regional level by the Regional Cultural Affairs Directorates (DRAC) and the Cultural Affairs Directorates (DAC) in the overseas departments, in collaboration with the other decentralized departments of the State concerned.
The tooling projects were selected by the national steering committee composed of representatives of the Ministry of Culture, the Ministries of Justice, National Education and Youth, the Interior, the Overseas Territories, Agriculture and Food, the Office of the General Commissioner for Equality of Territories, the National Agency for Combating Illiteracy, as well as qualified personalities.