Want to Get Into Culture? Whether you are a student or a professional, you can specialize in cultural project management in one year. The Professional Master in Cultural Project Management lets you acquire all the skills needed to work in culture and the arts. The various dimensions of cultural projects, such as funding, coordinating equipment and people, communicating with audiences or stakeholders, etc., are a specificity that requires specific, high-level training.
A Bac+4/5 program to enter the world of Culture
If your professional aspirations take you toward the cultural sector and you want to manage cultural projects, the Professional Master in Cultural Project Management /lien/ will allow you to specialize. Intended for profiles who have already reached a cycle 2 level, this program is designed to acquire mastery of the specific aspects of cultural project management.
This program is open to:
- To people with a first path in higher education and a Master 1 or 2 degree in a field related to the activity.
- To professionals who already have experience in either culture or management:
- in events, or in organizations receiving the public,
- in project administration and management,
- in communication,
- or for people from other specializations in the culture world (artistic and technical).
One Year to Master the Specifics of the Cultural Field
The Professional Master in Cultural Project Management approaches cultural project management from an operational and practical standpoint to prepare students for the many challenges it involves:
- designing relevant projects in line with the objectives of the sponsoring organization (educating, bringing people together, entertaining, etc.).
- Mastery of the required administrative aspects: time declarations, booking venues and equipment, managing security, insurance and budgets.
- Seeking funding: private and public partners, applications and follow-up.
- Communication and promotion of the project or event.
- Coordination and communication with the various players and professions: artists, audiences, partners, visitors or clients, technical providers, etc.
By the end of the program, students or career changers will be able to lead a cultural project from A to Z in every detail.
How to Change Careers into Culture?
After an initial path, either through your studies or your professional experience. Are you drawn to the cultural sector and want to thrive in a professional environment that you find meaningful?
Why Change Careers into Culture?
Choosing to redirect your professional life toward your passion can indeed allow you to enjoy a better quality of life: getting involved in projects that carry values, offering all kinds of audiences an opening to the world and the arts, and more generally working for the cultural and intellectual enrichment of others is a rewarding activity.
Build on your professional and personal skills
The Professional Master Cultural Project Management is open to people who already have a solid profile so that its teaching can build on skills that are already established.
This program takes place over a year of specialization and professionalization that will focus on adapting your skills to the cultural sector and will let you acquire new reflexes and new techniques suited to the world of creation.
To change careers, you can build on the qualities and skills you already have:
- your ability to communicate and share your ideas,
- your organizational skills,
- your knowledge of office tools,
- your specific knowledge depending on your profile: handling and tracking administrative files, creativity, an accounting approach, command of the communication chain, foreign languages, etc.
- Your adaptability to all kinds of contacts,
- your writing skills,
- possibly your professional network,
- your personal and general knowledge, and your knowledge of culture and the arts,
- your personality and, of course, your enthusiasm.
Career Change into Culture: Many Professional Opportunities
By choosing to work in the cultural sector, many possibilities open up to you. The different careers and fields of activity will let you pursue the path that suits you best:
- performing arts,
- audiovisual,
- tourism and heritage promotion,
- cultural events and gatherings,
- publishing,
- art sales,
- etc.
In each of these fields, coordination, management, and organization work is essential and requires trained people.
The tasks and activities involved in cultural project management can be varied and different, but they all include aspects you will have been trained in during your Professional Master year: administrative and budget management, audience relations, communication, coordination, etc.
You will be able to fulfill its duties and carry out its activities operationally as soon as you graduate.
A Master program that lets you land your first position
The IESA Professional Master program is structured around two professionalizing phases:
- a teaching period at the school, organized in project mode to let you learn while immersed in professional habits,
- an internship period in a cultural organization in order to put the teachings into practice.
This internship period is a first step that will allow you to enrich your professional network and your résumé with significant experience in the cultural sector. An important asset for your professional future, but also an opportunity to sign a contract at the end of your studies.