7 areas for action and reflection

1. Employment, training, professional integration

The quality of our courses comes from our ability to tailor teaching to constantly evolving sectors and issues. Research is an essential part of this. The question of training often leads back to the question of research in terms of its content and its adaptation to changes in the sectors of activity for which we provide training, but also in the levels of diplomas awarded.
The precariousness of employment in the cultural sectors has led us to consider the question of employment and training from the perspective of continuity and sustainability. The question of curricula and diplomas underlines the importance of issuing university diplomas for courses run by the Ministry of Culture, in particular to ensure international recognition of training levels. Another aspect of this notion of sustainability is the Validation of Acquired Knowledge and Experience, which enables professionals to validate a career path and thus open up career prospects.

2. Editions, publications and promotion of research

Research is not understood in the same way in each of the participating organisations, but questions are nevertheless being asked about the possibilities for pooled research through joint responses to calls for research projects, the integration of members of the organisations into the University's research laboratories or the joint development of scientific events.
Numerous researchers from a variety of disciplines are involved in the Agenda 21 structures, contributing their analytical and editorial talents to local cultural life. By also addressing the issue of communication, Agenda 21 needs to pool its editorial skills in order to improve the visibility of each of these works, both in terms of media and distribution.

3. Information systems

Operational coherence is one of the priorities of Agenda 21 for higher, scientific, cultural, artistic, vocational and technical education, facilitating dialogue and decision-making between the various players in the region. The aim is to assess the tools available in each of the structures and their ability to pool tools and encourage and enhance the transfer of know-how. The aim is to develop steering and assessment tools for an Agenda 21 policy.

4. Student and community life

Avignon has a total of 2,271 associations, offering a wide range of themes and types of personal investment. This individual investment in the service of the collective is essential to the many existing cultural projects, making it necessary to discuss this notion and its deployment within the various artistic, professional and scientific training courses on offer.
While cinema is the most popular activity among students, the presence of the Festival d'Avignon in our region must be seen in the context of close, year-round collaboration. All of our institutions bring together a population of almost 10,000 students, whose activities, particularly in associations, are a driving force behind the local dynamic and cultural life.
Agenda 21 must be able to encourage exchanges and the circulation of audiences and make all the region's cultural facilities accessible to the student population.

5. European and international projects

The international links from which the Avignon area benefits (twinning, exchanges, joint projects) find a dynamic voice in the cultural and educational sectors. The Agenda 21 tool can be used to strengthen and coordinate the international initiatives devised by the various institutions.

6. Student accommodation and social status

The diversity of courses and teaching is at the crossroads of practical and financial issues: each student has to face up to the precariousness promised by their status and adapt their daily life to the unavoidable needs. Student social housing is an issue common to all our institutions. Together, we represent a representative number of people who need to build student accommodation solutions in the Avignon area, in conjunction with the CROUS, which already manages grants for the Ecole d'Art and the Conservatoire.

7. Documentation

The various institutions possess invaluable resources for the Avignon research community as a whole. The structures must work together to develop a range of resources and tools to facilitate access to these resources, based on the principle of effective global knowledge on the scale of a shared territory.