Culture & City Policy
As a public policy, city policy has a double territorial and social dimension. In this context, the Department for Cultural and Territorial Action in DRAC is responsible for developing cultural and artistic action in conjunction with its partners.
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The new generation city contracts are signed for a period of six years. Funded nationally by the National Agency for Territorial Cohesion (ANCT), each city contract includes a cultural component based on the diagnoses of each territory and has specific funding. The DRAC with the services of the State and the Communities educates and sometimes supports actions carried out by professional cultural operators, by artistic or heritage equipments to the inhabitants of the districts of the politics of the city. Eligible actions are financed through calls for projects using specific appropriations and common law appropriations mobilized by each of the partners.
An interdepartmental policy in the regions
This policy, carried out by several ministries, is implemented within the framework of City Contracts, in close coordination with local authorities and interdepartmental partners concerned at regional and departmental levels:
- Regional Directorate of Economy, Employment, Labour and Solidarity (DREETS) and Prefecture of Region.
- Departmental Directorates of Economy, Employment, Labour and Solidarity (DDETS) on 12 departments, because there is no City Policy in Lozère and Prefectures or Sub-Prefectures concerned in each of the 12 departments.
Adapted financing
The objective of cultural development policy is a “return to the common law” of disadvantaged urban areas. To this end, support arrangements and resources are granted to increase the number and quality of projects. Applications for grants for these actions submitted excluding calls for projects relating to each city contract, are to be sent to the DRAC before 31 October last deadline for the upcoming calendar year.
The City Policy appropriations are primarily at the local level: The funding of applications made under the calls for projects of each of the city contracts will be made in accordance with the respective orientations and dates of the calls for projects, they will be deposited on the dauphin platform. Other credits can be requested at the regional level: These will only be specific devices such as "It’s my heritage" or projects of regional or inter-departmental scope (on 5 departments at least). A call for proposals is issued in January of each year by DREETS.
Methods of cross-intervention
Supporting the inhabitants of the city’s political districts towards culture mobilises a wide range of professional skills, cultural, educational and integration professionals. Cultural associations work in concert with networks of educational success, solidarity and social prevention to facilitate access to culture and the expression of cultural rights.
Moreover, the place and role of cultural institutions, cultural facilities and state labels in this policy of public development are central, they aim as much the democratization of culture, as the expression of diversities or social cohesion. Access to culture takes the form of decentralized actions in the territories of the city’s policy, of a reception of the inhabitants within the large facilities, or even of adapted tariff policies, a participatory approach to projects involving the inhabitants in order to open up the programming of cultural institutions to new forms…
A concerted policy
To facilitate dialogue between cultural actors, support and institutions, a regional culture/city policy coordination (CPV) was established on 20 January 2020. It brings together the DRAC, the DRCS (DREETS), the General Secretariat for Regional Affairs (SGAR) and the two City Political Resource Centres.
At the initiative of the Regional Coordination (CPV), have already taken place :
- A seminar dedicated to the agents of the State in charge of culture, education, youth and social cohesion to ensure a regional vision of the issues in this sector and to discuss them,
- two thematic days of dialogue and exchange open to the actors of culture, education, youth and social cohesion
Means and tools et tools availablelay
Two City Policy Resource Centres, which are among the twenty centres dedicated to city policy and territorial cohesion in France.
- Cities and territories Occitania
1011, rue du Pont de Lavérune, CS 70022, 34070 Montpellier cedex 3
contact@villesetterritoireslr.fr
Tel. 04 67 07 02 38
www.villesetterritoireslr.fr
- Resources & Territories (Public Interest Group)
134, route d'Espagne - BP 53566, 31035 Toulouse Cedex 1
Tel. 05 62 11 38 34
www.ressources-territoires.com
- Insee site city policy
https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3587341
- City Political GIS
https://sig.ville.gouv.fr/Territoire/76
National schemes mobilized in priority neighbourhoods
- « It’s my legacy », (formerly Les Portes du Temps): an operation inviting children and adolescents to an artistic and playful discovery of heritage during school holidays;
- « Image smugglers » : image education system outside school time aimed at audiences (12-25 years) with difficulties in accessing film practices;
- « Local media » initiatives contributing to giving voice to the inhabitants of the territories and also contributing to the development of the territories;
- « Caravan of the ten words » From an approach to the French language centred on the artistic detour, this operation contributes to a better mastery of the French language, of expression, and to a better social cohesion.
Regional referents
Referent rpolitical region de city
- Stéphane Guyomarch
DRCS (DREETS) Occitanie,
Popular and Youth Education Advisor, City Policy Advisor, Youth Social Cohesion Service.
Referent regional Drac
Drac Regional Referent and Assistant
- Jean-Pierre Besombes-Vailhé, jean-pierre.besombes-vailhe@culture.gouv.fr
Advisor for Cultural and Territorial Action - Beatrice Michelena, beatrice.michelena@culture.gouv.fr
Tel. 04 67 02 32 53
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