Deadline: 30-Mar-22
The Ministry of Culture (Secretary General, Division of European and International Affairs) offers this Enhancing Digital Strategies for Cultural Organisations Program as part of its experience exchange programs for foreign Professionals.
The digital transition is leading to profound transformations and the cultural sector is particularly exposed to these upheavals.
These transformations, exacerbated by the pandemic, affect all links in the chain, from creative process, models of production and distribution to the upheaval of digital practices and access to cultural content.
In this context, the cultural sector must lay out a strategic framework to enable its actors to get a better grasp of these evolutions: accompanying stakeholders and the professional ecosystems, guaranteeing the sustainability of their economic models, ensuring a free space for the makers and a better cultural public service for citizens, etc.
Through visits, workshops, and round tables, this seminar will provide an understanding of the way whereby cultural structures can make the most of the transformations brought about by the digital revolution.
It will bring together in Paris and another region in France about fifteen cultural managers working in cultural structures. It will encourage participants to share their experiences and facilitate the development of professional networks between France and the participants’ countries of origin.
The seminar will draw on the experience of top cultural professionals from the Ministry of Culture, local authorities, and cultural institutions (libraries, museums, heritage sites, festivals, creation centers).
Topics
The seminar will deal with the following topics:
- Digital technology in the service of cultural democracy, discoverability, outreach, and access to culture;
- Legislative and regulatory challenges related to digital transformation in the cultural sector: copyright, cultural diversity, online discoverability, taxation, remuneration of creators in then digital environment;
- Innovative companies as a catalyst for the digital transition of Culture;
- Modernization, training and capacity building for cultural stakeholders;
- The ecological transition and digital sobriety challenges for the cultural sector
Criteria
At the end of the seminar, participants will be able to:
- Have a broad and precise view of the different issues at stake raised by the digital transition and anticipate the next challenges;
- Strengthen their strategies to face the challenges induced by digital transformation;
- Develop cultural projects in which digital technology plays a key role;
- Identify new partners to develop international cooperation projects.
For more information, visit https://ug.ambafrance.org/Call-for-applications-Courants-du-monde-Programme