The Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication – Department of Culture has launched a call for proposals for the 2023-2025 work program relating to cultural cooperation between Morocco and Wallonia-Brussels.
This cooperation program focuses on supporting the professionalization of the management and animation teams of cultural spaces and cultural and creative industries in Morocco through support in the implementation of joint projects between Morocco and Wallonia-Brussels , says the ministry on its website.
This call for proposals, which concerns the regions of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Casablanca-Settat, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceima and l’Oriental, will be launched every two years to support the partnership between two twinned structures (cultural spaces, cultural associations , cultural incubators, etc.) around a project or cultural co-production (up to six projects), specifies the ministry.
Through this structuring project, the two French-speaking Moroccan and Belgian teams will be able to exchange good practices, develop cultural dialogue between the two communities and mutually strengthen their skills in management and cultural mediation, according to the same source.
The two parties will make sure to support these collaborations through the financing of international mobility and professional internships and the organization of activities in the two territories, it is explained.
“The call for proposals will be submitted to the arbitration of the Permanent Mixed Commission (CMP) Morocco-Wallonia Brussels which will be held in Rabat from May 15 to 17, 2023. It can therefore only be considered accepted on the basis of the official notification that the ministry will send to the project manager and according to the procedures specified by the minutes of the CMP”, underlines the ministry.
And to add that the projects must be sent, by April 21st, to the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication – Department of Culture – Division of Cooperation on the electronic address ” [email protected] “.
“On the basis, in particular, of the opinions of the experts requested for this purpose, the Permanent Joint Commission will decide on the advisability of including the projects in the work program within the limits of the budgetary availability”, indicates the same source, specifying that the Ministry’s contribution per project/year is up to 100,000 DH.