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MIRA
From 08 December 2025 to 16 January 2026
MIRA - Mobilité à l'International de Recherche Artistique, supports artists in their international research endeavors.
MIRA is open to French artists, or foreign artists residing in France for more than 5 years, in solo or duo, who wish to carry out and/or deepen a research project in one or more countries for a minimum period of one month.
MIRA Livre
- Opening date: Monday, December 8, 2025
- Closing date: Friday, January 16, 2026 (call subject to a numerus clausus: applications will close upon receipt of 40 eligible applications)
- Provisional date of the committee meeting: Thursday, February 12, 2026
- Mobility period: April to December 2026
- Cartoon
- essay
- fiction
- youth
- poetry
Mobilities from June to December 2025
The selection commission was held on March 21, 2025 at the Institut français.
The call for applications, opened on January 23 with a numerus clausus of 40 applications, closed on February 14, 2025.
The commission selected 6 writing projects whose authors, winners, will carry out their mobilities, lasting one month, between June and December 2025.
- Marie COSNAY - Spain (novel / fiction)
- Joanna DUNIS - Lithuania (essay / poetry)
- Isis LABEAU-CABERIA - India (children's / epic fantasy)
- Alexandre LENOT - Egypt (novel / fiction)
- Roxanne MOREIL - Japan - (comics)
- Jérôme SCHMIDT - Japan (novel / non-fiction)
MIRA Métiers d'art
Mobility from January to August 2026
The selection committee met on 14 October 2025 at the Directorate-General for Artistic Creation of the Ministry of Culture.
The call for applications opened on 11 July with a numerus clausus of 40 applications, which was reached in August 2025.
The committee selected 10 research projects, whose winning artisans will carry out their one-month mobility programmes between January and August 2026.
- Francine BARANCOURT - Italy (leather goods, glovery)
- Grégoire BARDIN - Morocco (glassware)
- Clémentine BRANDIBAS - Japan (lacquerware)
- Naïs CAMPEDEL - Norway (tapestry, weaving)
- Amaury DARRAS - Japan (cabinetmaking, marquetry)
- César LEBLIC - Mexico (ceramics, cement tiles)
- Marie-Lou LOUAINTIER - Philippines (millinery, fashion design)
- Julie MERLINO - Belgium (weaving)
- Victor MOLINIÉ - Japan (embroidery)
- Gérald VATRIN - Japan (glasswork)
- jewelry
- ceramics
- chasing
- copperware
- gilding
- printing
- maroquinerie
- mosaic
- goldsmithing
- pinture ornamental
- plumastics
- saddlery
- upholstery
- decorative upholstery
- weaving
- glasswork
- ...
- Release of call: July 11, 2025
- Closing of call: September 15, 2025
- Selection committee: October 2025
- Announcement of winners: end of October 2025
- Mobilities: between January and August 2026