Renewal of the Territorial Contract of Artistic and Cultural Education (CTEAC) of the agglomeration community of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

The agglomeration of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, located in the heart of a rural area, which also includes two priority districts of the city (Saint Roch and Kellermann), is developing an ambitious cultural offer.

Thus, since 1989, International Geography Festival (FIG) is the flagship event of the City, whose influence today goes beyond the French-French borders. It combines various audiences (academics and researchers and the general public) and disciplines (geography, sociology, ethnology etc., and literature).

The community also houses the Pierre-Noël Museum, the Claude-et-Duval factory, designed by Le Corbusier, and a certified bookstore Independent Reference Library (LIR) «The Nine».

Engage all partners

In this priority rural department for cultural policies, the DRAC Grand Est carries out a work of contractualization of arts and cultural education (EAC) and public reading with public institutions of inter-communal cooperation (EPCI) of the territory, alongside the Academy of Nancy-Metz and the Departmental Council of the Vosges. The objective is to develop actions closer to the inhabitants, mobilizing all the actors: ministerial, communities, artistic, cultural and associative.

The agglomeration community of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (CASDDV), in order to structure its cultural ambitions and bring them to the scale of the entire territory, is committed to the development of a territorial cultural project to define a coherent and shared cultural policy over three years (2020-2023). This resulted in three documents: 

• a cultural project of territory which highlights the strengths of inter-communal cultural policy and enables the most adequate operational conditions for its implementation;
• a Contract Territory Reading (CTL) which makes it possible to initiate partnerships between the territorial collectivity and the State (DRAC Grand Est) around multi-year projects for the development of reading;
• a first Territorial Contract of Artistic and Cultural Education (CTEAC) which helped to initiate a dynamic of partnerships between the community, the rectorate, the department and the State to ensure access to the EAC for all young people in the territory.

The label "100% EAC"

In 2022, alongside 79 communities in France, including 17 in Grand Est, the CASDDV was awarded the 100% EAC label for a period of 5 years, label launched at the initiative of the High Council for Arts and Cultural Education (HCEAC), which distinguishes communities committed to an exemplary approach.

A program developed in 4 major axes

The CASDDV CTEAC is a model of its kind in the Grand Est region.

The community has set up working methods that enable the involvement and cooperation of the territory’s educational partners (including agricultural high schools, family and rural houses, social children’s homes, early childhood, etc.).

Aiming to create a dynamic of artistic and cultural education radiating throughout the territory, the new action programme 2024-2027 is divided into four main areas:

• an intergenerational territory residence, targeting a fragile territory in order to contribute to the territorial equity of actions, and co-constructing with local actors (Heruditatem Company in 2024);
• unifying projects on all stages of young people’s lives ; school time, awakening time, time lost, extra-school and family;
• a BEC route program «Les petits mondes de l'art» whose ambition is to introduce students (from kindergarten to CM2) to the cultural services of the territory in one day;
• a particular focus on early childhood through the implementation of a multi-annual "Passerelle" residence.