Fleur PELLERIN, Minister of Culture and Communication and Patrick KANNER, Minister of the City, Youth and Sports launched with François CHEREQUE, President of the Civic Service Agency, the second major civic service program, Thursday, May 21 at the Centre Georges Pompidou. Entitled “Citizens of Culture”, this major program will enable 16,000 civic service missions to be carried out by the end of 2016, including 6,000 this year.
As Minister responsible for the Civic Service Agency, Patrick KANNER mobilizes all ministries and communities to meet the expectations of youth and to offer as soon as possible to all young people who request it a civic service mission.
Convinced that culture and communication are areas in which civic service takes on a particular meaning, Fleur PELLERIN wanted to fully engage her ministry in this process. The new missions of the Civic Service “Citizens of Culture” will focus on two themes, reflecting the Government’s priorities:
Promoting access to culture for all, because we must bring the cultural offer as close as possible to
populations, especially those most remote from it;
Putting culture at the service of republican values, to reinforce meaning and attachment
republican.
The volunteers will be welcomed in the public institutions of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, partner associations and local authorities.
Many missions will be proposed to them: go to meet the inhabitants to inform them of the cultural events taking place in their territory and facilitate their access, organize cultural discovery times for audiences that are usually far away (people with disabilities, isolated elderly people, etc.), keep the memory of places and territories alive, contribute to public awareness of reading and writing.
To guarantee the quality and the interest of the missions that will be offered to young volunteers, Fleur PELLERIN and Patrick KANNER have also decided to issue a charter of civic service in the cultural sector.
This charter provides that missions must be part of a national framework set by the ministry, and allow direct contact with the population. At least 25% of the missions will have to be entrusted to young people from the priority neighbourhoods of the city policy.
Finally, an experimental “culture and neighbourhoods” program will soon be launched in the priority neighbourhoods of the city’s policy with the objective of including the greatest number of young people in the missions of the culture sector, promoting diversity and diversity.