Aurélie Filippetti, Minister of Culture and Communication, Valérie Fourneyron, Minister of Sports, Youth, Community Life and Popular Education and Christophe de Margerie, President and CEO of Total, signed today an Implementing Convention for Arts and Cultural Education (EAC).
This commitment translates into:
- EUR 2 million in support for structures that have responded to a call for “arts and cultural education” projects sent by the Regional Cultural Affairs Directorates (Drac); and selected by a jury composed of representatives of the ministries in charge of Culture and Youth as well as members of the Total Foundation;
- EUR 1 million for cultural institutions developing interregional or national EAC projects;
- EUR 1 million for projects initiated and financed under a partnership agreement to be concluded with the Youth Experimentation Fund (EJF).
This call for projects «Arts and Cultural Education» will allow the financing of about forty projects developed by artistic teams or cultural structures. 22,000 young people are affected by these projects carried out on school, extracurricular or leisure time, in particular in connection with the reform of school schedules carried out by the Ministry of National Education.
The projects supported receive an average of 50,000 euros over two years and will be implemented from now until the end of the 2015-2016 school year.
The selection jury ensured that priority was given to selecting projects in the territories furthest removed from the offer and cultural institutions. Thus, two thirds of the actions will be developed either in rural deficit areas or in priority neighbourhoods of the «City Policy». In addition, four projects will take place in the ultra-marine territories (Martinique, La Réunion and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon).
All disciplines are represented: theatre, dance, music, circus arts, puppets, plastic arts, heritage and museums, digital arts...
Some projects are built around less represented fields such as crafts with, for example, the project developed in the Limousin region by the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie et de l'Art Tissé (Aubusson, 23) or the project carried out by Villa Noailles (Hyères, 83) around fashion and design.
Almost all of these projects also provide training for all the actors involved (teachers, animators, mediators, artists or cultural professionals...).
As part of a common commitment to youth, this new convention for the EAC is a concrete expression of the will of the President of the Republic to mobilize all energies in favor of young people and marks a firm commitment of the Government and Total in favor of access to art and culture for all young people.
It follows the signing on 7 June of a three-year agreement, setting out the framework for a joint commitment in favour of youth, by Valérie Fourneyron, Minister for Sport, Youth, and Christophe de Margerie, President and CEO of Total. This convention provides for the allocation of financial resources to shared priorities, including the financing of arts and cultural education activities to the tune of four million euros.