In a decision by the French President and Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa during Emmanuel Macron's official visit to Lisbon in July 2018, the France-Portugal Season will be held simultaneously in the two countries between mid-February 2022 and October 2022. 
Initially scheduled between...

As part of its support for developing French cultural and creative industries internationally, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and its cultural network internationally are taking action through a “CCI prioritaire mission” given to 37 embassies of strategic territories for exporting CCI.

After ten months of rich and varied programming throughout metropolitan France and the French overseas territories, hundreds of collaborations between French and African partner structures, thousands of events in the arts, sciences and entrepreneurship, the Africa2020 Season drew to a close on 30...

Initially scheduled from April to October 2021 and then rescheduled from October 2021 to March 2022, the French Season in Japan will not take place in 2021 and 2022 due to the health crisis linked to Covid-19. 
The dates for a further postponement of the Season are currently under review.

The...

Visas for Creation aims to accompany the artistic emergence in Africa and in the Caribbean thanks to residences of 2 months on the French territory.

The programme "Support for cultural operators from Africa and the Caribbean" is replaced by "Dialogue with Civil Society Cultural Operators".
It accompanies civil society by providing support to cultural operators for the structuring of their projects, their international cooperation strategy, the...

In response to the acute crisis in Lebanon, which has had a devastating impact on the Lebanese arts scene, the Institut français, the Association des Centres culturels de rencontre (ACCR) and the Institut français du Liban have joined forces to offer residencies in France to 100 Lebanese creative...

During the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (FPEU) from 1 January to 30 June 2022, the Institut français will be working alongside French and European institutions on the one hand and the French cultural network abroad on the other towards the objectives defined by the...

Led by the Institut Français (Paris, France) in partnership with OCTA (Brussels, Belgium) and APCA (Madeira, Portugal) and co-financed by the European Union, the Archipel.eu pilot project, launched in June 2021, aims to preserve and promote culture in the outermost regions and overseas countries and...

Accès Culture is a programme aiming to finance and support cultural projects in Africa in order to foster social ties and strengthen collaboration between African and French cultural agents. 
The programme seeks to partner civil society organisations (CSOs) with locally or regionally operated...

Built in 1992 by architect Kunio Kato on the Higashiyama mountain in Kyoto, the Villa Kujoyama is a place for interdisciplinary exchange and exists to strengthen intercultural dialogue between France and Japan.
Resident artists are asked to establish working relationships with the professional...

Safir is an ambitious programme for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the economic inclusion of young people in nine countries in North Africa and the Middle East (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Libya and Syria) that runs from 2020 to 2024...

The Institut français offers the French cultural network abroad its Residency Factory. This is a programme that aims to support this network at a technical and financial level in the development and construction of an artist residency at its facilities or with a local partner.
The Residency...

The Franco-German Cultural Fund (FCFA), established in 2003 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2023.
This fund encourages and supports cultural cooperation initiatives carried out in third countries by French and German diplomatic...