COAL Student Award 2026: The Night

Photographic series produced as part of the Finis Terrae residency on the island of Ouessant ©ADAGP-VEVER 2026. – © Capucine Vever, Un jour, en ma présence, un mage retira l'horizon tout autour de moi (nividic), 2019

Application deadline: April 28, 2026

Created in 2019, the Student COAL Prize aims to support students from Schools in the artistic and cultural field who are experimenting with and proposing concrete, creative solutions to the ecological transition.

The theme of the 2026 edition is “Night”.

Two prizes are on offer this year: the winning student receives a two-month residency worth 5,000 euros in one of France’s 350 nature reserves. The three nominated students also receive an invitation to take part in the Regenerative Academy. This unique masterclass, created and piloted for the new MAIF Métamorphoses Prize, is dedicated to transformative artistic practices in and with nature, biodiversity and public engagement.

The call for applications is open to all students who have completed 2 years of higher education, whatever their practice and field of study (design and applied arts, architecture and landscape, visual arts, music, dance, theater, circus, puppetry, cinema, audiovisual, multimedia) and up to one year after graduation.

Find out more about the call for applicationsDownload the full call for applications2/11/2026 - Pdf file - 4 pages - 2.89 Mo

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