EAC to open up to the world
The EAC beyond the EAC: promote the cultural practices of young adults, raise the stakes of the use of the media, put into perspective the technoscientific society.
The EAC’s broadest and most ambitious objective is to support young people in all their discoveries, to enable him to acquire the means to exercise his citizenship and generally to open himself to the current world by sharpening his consciousness and basing his commitments on the humanism of the Enlightenment.
To this end, the Ministry of Culture has put in place a number of measures such as culture pass », intended to facilitate the cultural practices of young adults and special support for themedia and information literacy (MIL) ; finally it promotes the development of the scientific, technical and industrial culture (STIC).
Supporting young people’s access to culture and artistic practices: the Culture pass
As part of its assigned missions, the Ministry of Culture, under the leadership of the President of the Republic, has created a new public space for sharing and meeting, a service platform called "Culture Pass". As a public policy, the Culture pass reflects a strengthening of the priorities related to the transmission of knowledge and the democratization of culture.
Its objective is to increase and diversify the cultural practices of 18-year-olds by providing them with a free application. This allows them, through geolocation, to identify, choose and reserve autonomously a wide variety of goods and cultural proposals accessible nearby, from concerts to theatre, books, artistic practice and video games.
Experimented for more than two years in 5 then 14 departments, the Culture pass was generalized on May 20, 2021 to the entire metropolitan French territory as well as overseas. Today, it is aimed at some 830,000 young people reaching the age of majority each year, who will be able to apply for an envelope of 300 € to spend for 24 months.
Through a strengthened partnership between the Ministries of Culture and National Education, Youth and Sports, also involving the Ministries of Agriculture, Armed Forces and Sea, The Culture pass is also extended from 1 January 2022 to young people from college. Echoing the objective of making each student benefit from a quality artistic and cultural education (EAC) path, the device includes a collective share, usable in the school setting, for the benefit of middle school students from the 4th class and high school students, and an individual share, for young people aged 15 to 17, on the same model as the pass made available to young people aged 18. It contributes to the construction of a coherent BEC pathway for each young person, with the ultimate goal of independent and enlightened participation in artistic and cultural life.
The two parts:
INDIVIDUAL SHARE | ||||
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Age | 15 years | 16 years | 17 years | from 18 years |
Individual share | 20 euros | 20 euros | 20 euros | 300 euros |
COLLECTIVE SHARE | |||||
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Classy | 4th | 3rd | 2nde | 1st | Senior |
Collective share | 25 euros | 25 euros | 30 euros | 30 euros | 30 euros |
A real tool for the revival of the cultural sector, the Culture pass brings to all the actors of the territory a new channel of communication. Whatever their location, whether public, private or associative, they will be able to highlight their initiatives, free or paid, on the application. The work of mediators and guides in the service of access to cultural proposals will be highlighted and amplified, allowing to welcome new audiences, to forge renewed links with them, if necessary around participatory approaches.
Taking a Critical Look at the World: Media and Information Literacy (MIL)
Media and Information Education (MIL) has been affirmed as a priority for the Ministry of Culture, which should enable everyone to:
- to broaden one’s horizon, to understand the world and its complexity, to develop one’s critical mind, to reclaim information;
- to free oneself from the paths traced by social networks, their algorithms and their uninterrupted flows;
- to understand how digital ecosystems work.
It aims to:
- deciphering information, analyzing images, knowing how to orient oneself in the different sources of information, understanding the mechanisms of influence that are at stake;
- fight against hate content and deconstruct conspiracy theories disseminated massively online, particularly on social networks;
- promote a better understanding of journalistic work, the functioning of media and social networks, in a context of mistrust of traditional media and mass circulation of false information.
Strengthening the ministry’s media and information education policy has resulted in the implementation since 2018 of a media and information education plan, which has enabled:
- increased support for media and information education actors: associations of information professionals, popular education associations, educational actors, etc., both at local level, through the interventions of the Regional Directorates of Cultural Affairs, and at national level, through an annual call for projects dedicated to MIL;
- the development of MIL in libraries: In connection with the library plan «Open more, open better», this component relied on the deployment of volunteers in civic service and the strengthening of training for library professionals.
Open artistic and cultural education to scientific, technical and industrial culture (CSTI)
Once centered on an asymmetrical dialogue between scientists and laypeople, scientific, technical and industrial culture is now based on a goal that is no longer a question: the appropriation of knowledge by all.
In the 21st century society, based on the knowledge economy and collaborative innovation, the sharing of scientific, technical and industrial knowledge must be open to the entire population. The exercise of enlightened citizenship also involves promoting new relationships between science and society.
In addition, the rise of digital opens the field of new modes of mediation, creating new spaces for practices and meetings such as Fab Labs, Hackerspaces or Living Labs, which emphasize the «by doing» appropriation of science and technology, individually or collectively.
Finally, making known and understanding the scientific and technical adventure of humanity by explaining the progress of knowledge and the multiple contributions of different civilizations helps to fight against ideological and sectarian drifts of all kinds. It is cultivating the heritage of the Enlightenment and thus returning its roots to each of our fellow citizens.
To make researchers and teachers aware of scientific and cultural mediation, in order to accompany more young people on a path oriented towards art and science, this objective of the Ministry of Culture recreates that of artistic and cultural education.