The Musée national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN) and the Institut français work in partnership to promote scientific culture in the French diplomatic network abroad. MNHN president Gilles Bloch discusses the digital creation implemented within the museum, as well as the challenges of this partnership...

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...

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...

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...

University researcher and radio journalist Alice Lefilleul presents the first season of the podcast Autrement dit, a co-production between the Institut français and the association Making Waves.

Moojan Asghari, a 31-year-old French-Iranian woman, is very active in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community. A campaigner to promote the role of under-represented women in this field, she co-founded the NGO “Women in AI” in 2017.