SINCE 1989, THE JEAN-LUC LAGARDÈRE FOUNDATION HAS SUPPORTED AND ENCOURAGED THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG TALENT. IT DEVELOPS AMBITIOUS, LONG-TERM PROGRAMMES THAT MAKE IT FULLY ENGAGED IN THE FIELDS OF CULTURE, EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY.
COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING CREATIVITY AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY
For the 30th consecutive year, the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation awarded 11 grants1 to young creatives from the worlds of culture and media. They join the 307 talented young people who have already received grants from the Foundation, some of whom enjoyed remarkable success in 2019, such as Christophe Barral (Film producer winner 2011), who produced Les Misérables, attracting an audience of around 2 million in France in 2019.
Because encouraging creativity is central to what it does, the Foundation is a loyal partner of the Académie de France in Rome - Villa Médicis, which provides residential stays for artists and researchers, and Studio 13/16 at the Centre Pompidou, an arts space exclusively for teenagers.
Lastly, the Foundation has reasserted its commitment to supporting cultural diversity, in particular by means of the literary prize it has awarded jointly with the Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) since 2013.
1 One grant per category: Documentary Filmmaker, Animated Filmmaker, Digital Artist, Writer, Print Journalist, Bookseller, Musician (jazz and classical, contemporary music), Photographer, Film Producer and Television Scriptwriter.
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The group's values
The group's activities
Created in 1992, Lagardère is an international group with operations in more than 40 countries worldwide. It employs over 30,000 people and generated revenue of €7,211 million in 2019.
Under the impetus of the Group's General and Managing Partner, Arnaud Lagardère, in 2018, the Group launched a strategic refocusing around two priority divisions: Lagardère Publishing and Lagardère Travel Retail.
The group's history
Lagardère’s history stretches back 150 years, from Louis Hachette’s intuitive decisions in the 19th century to the digital revolution...
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