Deadline: 15 October 2023
Applications are now open for the Résidence Culture Programme to welcome foreign cultural professionals to cultural establishments in France.
It is part of the Ministry of Culture’s overall offer for hosting professionals from abroad.
Considerations and Objectives of the Programme
- This scheme aims to set up and develop structuring cooperation projects and encourage the creation of sustainable exchange networks. It enables French structures and selected professionals to develop international partnerships and strengthen existing cooperation. It contributes to the development of the Ministry and its operators’ expertise as well as to the strengthening of international scientific and institutional exchange of know-how.
- This programme enables the integration of foreign professionals into public operators’ administrative and scientific teams (central administration, regional directorates of cultural affairs, public establishments, and approved networks) and, more broadly, of any non-profit cultural operator.
- At the end of this immersion and depending on the projects and possibilities of each structure, reciprocity could be organised, allowing agents of the French structures that have hosted a professional to stay in the professional’s country of origin for a while. This reciprocity will then be paid for by the French structure. The aim is to provide long-term support for partnerships that have already begun or to finalise a cooperation project.
Funding Information
- The duration is of one to three uninterrupted months.
- The professionals who are hosted receive a grant of 1500€ per month of internship.
The Target Audiences Abroad
- The programme is aimed at experienced professionals with responsibilities in foreign cultural institutions (administrators of cultural structures, department managers, cultural project managers, cultural managers of local authorities, and managers responsible for the development and management of cultural policies), who wish to develop a concrete professional project with a host institution in France, allowing for the reciprocal exchange of knowledge and expertise.
- Artists, students, teachers, and researchers are not eligible. The internship is not intended to develop purely artistic or scientific projects.
- Priority is given to French-speaking professionals, but this programme is open to non-Frenchspeaking professionals if they can be accommodated in good conditions within the structure concerned, by English-speaking or other language staff.
For more information, visit Embassy of France in Kuala Lumpur.
