Professionalization

Educational establishments bear a responsibility for the future of their students.
The art and design school trains artists and designers, but more broadly, it provides multiple skills which translate into professional activities that are sometimes mixed and adapted to each profile.

“CulturePro” projects

Two projects are receiving funding from the Ministry of Culture under the "CulturePro" program, which aims to promote the integration of students and recent graduates into the professional world. Each of these programs includes partnerships with cultural organizations or businesses.

1/ The ARC (Research and Creation Workshop) “New gestures” is a project on the theme of traditional gestures and innovative gestures which brings together several archive formats and reactivates them with virtual reality and immersive technology in the field of creation in art and design.

2/ The "Making Presses Groan" project involves work on publishing and promoting traditional skills. The objective is to create a published work that builds upon the master's theses published at the school.

  • Learn more about CulturePro – Support for the professionalization of students and young graduates of Higher Education Culture (ESC).

“After School” Program

The “After School” program, open from the third year of study, aims to provide a better understanding of the world in which graduates will find themselves in a fairly broad way:
understand the structure of the artistic sector, its actors, its challenges. Another facet consists of providing information on the different existing statuses and helping to take the first steps. Preparing a book, knowing how to communicate around your work and setting your price are also part of the objectives.
In addition to group sessions, fifth years are offered a series of individual interviews in order to clarify their projects.
The example of alumni is rich in lessons. An association of former students will soon be created. It will promote networking and mutual aid on French and international territory.

Validation of acquired experience (VAE)

The large eight carries the VAE procedure for higher schools of art and design in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine network.

This system allows working individuals to have their professional skills recognized through a title, qualification certificate, or professional diploma, such as the National Diploma in Art (DNA) and the National Higher Diploma in Visual Arts (DNSEP). Validation of Acquired Experience (VAE) thus constitutes a fourth pathway to certification, alongside traditional schooling and university studies, apprenticeships, and continuing professional development.

“Help” device

Thanks to its network of cultural partners, Ensad Limoges was able to mobilize nine of them in 2022 to offer a dozen first contracts to new graduates with mixed financing to which the school contributes. In 2023, nineteen partner structures have agreed to participate in the system. This initiative, called “Coup de Pouce”, is renewed every year.