Director of the European Centre at Kyiv's Mohyla University and founder of the Duh i litera (Spirit and Letter) publishing house, which aims to provide access to European thought in Ukrainian, philosopher Constantin Sigov has been building intellectual bridges between Ukraine and France for many...

Attached to the defence of local values, Mamou Daffé is the head of several organisations and events in Mali. In particular, he directs the Centre Culturel Kôrè in Ségou, a partner of the Institut français for the ACP-EU Culture programme: Support for the Culture and Creation sectors in West Africa...

Author of Ralentir ou périr (L'économie de la décroissance), published by Seuil, Timothée Parrique proposes to abandon economic growth in order to better confront the challenges we are facing: from climate change to the reduction of inequalities and the improvement of our quality of life. On 20...

The Cameroonian historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe, author of a report on the new relations between Africa and France, submitted to the President of the French Republic on 5 October 2021, is now devoting himself to the Innovation for Democracy Foundation. After the launch of the Foundation on...

A teacher, economist and writer, Felwine Sarr was due to see his text Traces – Discours aux nations africaines (Traces – Speech to African Nations), which he wrote in 2018, staged at the Avignon Festival in July 2020. The global pandemic decided otherwise and the event was cancelled, but the thinker...

The second Our Future - Africa-Europe Dialogues forum will be held from 1 to 3 December in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Jacques Jonathan Nyemb chairs the Council for the Follow-up of the Recommendations of the New Africa-France Summit, which plays a central role in its organisation. 

Known for his poetry collections, Dancing in Odesa and Deaf Republic, which has just been translated to French, Ilya Kaminsky is the patron of the 2022 Un Week-end à l’Est Festival. As a sign of support, the Festival, taking place in Paris from 23 to 28 November, spotlights the city of Odesa. With...

Opened in February 2022, the France-Portugal 2022 Season, implemented by the Institut français for the French part, comes to an end. Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota, Président of the Season, looks back to the past 9 months. 

Planned for 2022, the France-Portugal Season will bring together artists, thinkers and scientists from both countries around common themes. As part of the Portuguese and French presidencies of the Council of the European Union (Portugal's rotating presidency in the first half of 2021 and France's in...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this second part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, speaks about the Creative Europe programme, support for the...

On 1 January 2022, France took over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for six months. In this first part of the interview, Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, discusses the role of culture in the political priorities of the...

The Trianon Dialogue was launched by Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Poutine in 2017 with the aim of reinforcing links between the Russian and French civil societies by developing new opportunities for exchanging. If the health crisis has obviously impacted the programme over the past few months...

Andrew Manning is the Director of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture). With members in every EU country and over 133 ‘Clusters’ worldwide the organisation believes in the power of culture to build trust and understanding between countries. Within the framework of the French...

Marc Dondey is Director of the Scène de recherche (Research Stage) of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) – Paris-Saclay which opened in January 2020. He works for interdisciplinarity between artists and scientists. He presents this new place and explains his approach to creation.

Oakland/Saint-Denis is an international cooperation project between two cities that are far apart geographically, yet close due to their social, economic or cultural characteristics. Over a year of exchanges, marked by two trips either side of the Atlantic, various American and French cultural...