Previously reserved for 18-year-olds, the culture pass will be expanded to include certain middle school students and all high school students starting in early 2022.
Launched in February 2019 by the Ministry of Culture, the program allows young people, in the year they turn 18, to access an application where they have โฌ300 for 24 months to use for local cultural activities and digital offers.
Since its launch, the Culture Pass has continued to gain popularity, reaching โnearly 641,000 users aged 18 since last May.โ Today, more than 800,000 young people use this application. In light of the success of this measure, the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot announced that the program would be extended in January 2022 “from the 4th grade up to the final year of high school.”
Starting in the fourth grade, students will be able to benefit from offers developed within the framework of collective projects led by teachers. This so-called โcollectiveโ part is โexclusively dedicated to funding artistic and cultural education activities carried out in groups and supervised by teachers.โ From the age of 15, they will then be able to access an โindividual partโ and โbegin to make their own choices, in line with the emancipation ethos that underpins the Culture Pass.โ
They will then be able to use the โฌ300 to spend on credit for tickets (cinema, concert, show, museumโฆ), cultural goods (books, records, instrumentsโฆ), artistic discipline courses (music, theaterโฆ), creative arts supplies (watercolors, brushes, notebooksโฆ) or digital services (video games, online music, certain SVOD platforms, online press, ebooksโฆ).
