A 7000€ grant for an art project will be awarded to a young person from the Mediterranean.
To encourage greater appreciation of the cultures and art and crafts of the Mediterranean region among young people, the Marc de Montalembert Foundation provides grants for the implementation of projects related to cultures or art and crafts. Projects must be the expression of a personal vocation of the candidates. Projects must be implemented outside the candidates’ home country. The Foundation expects concrete results from the project. Whatever form of expression chosen – written, oral, visual, etc. – the outcome must be an original piece of work which the Foundation may consider helping to publish or promote. The candidate may decide to finalize the result of the project in residence at the Marc de Montalembert Foundation on the island of Rhodes in Greece. The subjects treated by grant beneficiaries in twenty years since 1994 come under the headings of Sculpture, Literature, Music, Painting, Engraving, Architecture, Sociology, Photography, Ethnography, Art History, Musicology.
Candidates must propose a project related to Mediterranean cultures or art and crafts, and be a national from a Mediterranean country.
Candidates must have been born after 31 December 1984, and be under 30 years of age in 2014.
To present a project, an application form must be requested before 15 December 15 2013.
Deadline for the dispatch of applications: 31 December 2013
For more information and application forms: http://www.fondationmdm.com/index.php/en/bando