Student COAL Prize 2024 - Being Transformative!

Deadline: As soon as possible

Competitions

Design Creative Ideas

Location(s)

  • France
  • Online

Overview

For its fifth edition, the student COAL Prize is focused on transformation, in partnership with France’s Nature Reserves.

Details

Created in 2020, the aim of the COAL Student Prize is to support French students in the field of arts and culture who are experimenting with and proposing concrete, creative solutions to the ecological transition, through a residency in partnership with France’s Nature Reserves. COAL and its partners wish to encourage young people to get involved and promote artists’ responses to current ecological issues.

Being Transformative! This is the theme of the 2024 edition. At a time when knowledge alone is no longer enough to motivate action, the COAL Student Prize 2024 calls for transformation from within, of the senses, of care, of the self with others. A call to see culture as the breeding ground for our relationship with nature and, by the same token, our greatest asset in bringing about radical, sustainable change.

The COAL Student Prize was created in 2020 by COAL in partnership with the Fondation Culture et Diversité and with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.

The Student COAL Prize awards the winner a two-month residency in one of France’s 350 nature reserves, with a €5,000 prize to cover the cost of residency (transport and accommodation). The winning candidate will be supported throughout their residency by the nature reserve’s educational and scientific teams as they implement their project.

The Réserves naturelles de France (RNF) association runs a national network of more than 700 nature protection professionals, working on a daily basis for the 350 nature reserves in mainland France and overseas. As an ambassador for nature reserves, RNF is the voice of nature, actively mobilizing all of society’s stakeholders, particularly in the field of culture.

CALENDAR

  • Announcement of the nominated artists: July 2024
  • Announcement of the winners of the 2024 edition: September 2024
  • Awards ceremony: November 2024, at Sans Réserve, the meeting place for creatives committed to ecology

PARTNERS

  • The Réserves naturelles de France (RNF) association runs a national network of more than 700 nature protection professionals, working on a daily basis for the 350 nature reserves in mainland France and overseas. As an ambassador for nature reserves, RNF is the voice of nature, actively mobilizing all of society’s stakeholders, particularly in the field of culture.
  • The Foundation Culture & Diversité, a Fimalac corporate foundation created by Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, aims to promote access to the arts and culture for young people from modest backgrounds. Since its launch in 2006, it has been designing and implementing sustainable programs directly in the field with its cultural, educational and social partners. More than 50,000 young people have already benefited from its actions.

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Eligibility

Candidates should be from:


Description of Ideal Candidate

COAL 2023 Prize invites artists from all over the world to apply.


Dates

Deadline: As soon as possible


Cost/funding for participants

AWARD*

  • The winner of the COAL Prize will be awarded 10,000 euros and benefits from an (optional) residence run by the Museum of Hunting and Nature at the Belval Domaine, property of the François Sommer Foundation.
  • The Belval estate is located in the commune of Belval-Bois-des-Dames, in the French Ardennes. It spans an enclosed forested area of nearly 1000 hectares and is traversed by meadows and 40 hectares of ponds. A veritable observatory of rural life and wildlife, each year it welcomes selected artists who contribute to the representation of their vision of Man’s relationship to his natural environment. Testament to the Foundation’s commitment in supporting contemporary artistic creation, the residency at the Belval estate contributes to the dissemination of the artists’ works to a wide audience. The combined knowledge of the scientific and educational teams of the Museum of Hunting and Nature and those of the Belval estate will also be available as a resource for the artists. We invite you to consult its charter on COALs website.

* Subject to change.

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