COAL STUDENT PRIZE 2024: BEING TRANSFORMATIVE

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 is the umbrella organization for a national network of over 700 nature protection professionals, working on a daily basis in 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.

APPLICATION FORM

All proposals must be submitted by May 5, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. on the COAL server: http://upload.projetcoal.org/formulaire-etudiant/

The application must include the following documents, assembled in a single PDF, not exceeding 30 Mb, saved as SURNAME_Name_student_2024_Project title:

– A detailed description of the proposed project, relevant to the selection criteria;

– a technical note and an budget estimate;

– two visuals illustrating the project, at least ;

– a CV and an artistic file;

– a 2023-2024 student certificate.

COAL is an association created in France in 2008 by professionals in the fields of contemporary art, ecology and research, which mobilizes artists and cultural players around societal and environmental issues. Through the COAL Prize, international cooperation initiatives and almost a hundred exhibitions and local cultural projects, COAL is the leading French player in promoting the emergence of a new culture of ecology.

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