The Marc de Montalembert Prize for Mediterranean Art

Other Requirements

**To be considered the candidate must:** * **come from a country bordering on the Mediterranean,** * **be less than 28 years old the year of the grant’s award,** * manifest a genuine vocation in a specific cultural field or one linked to the development of a particular craft, * present a project related to that vocation which shall be realized in one or more countries of the Mediterranean as long as different from the applicant’s origin country. In order to encourage better appreciation of the cultures and art and crafts of the Mediterranean region among its young generations the Marc de Montalembert Foundation provides grants for the implementation of **projects related to cultures or art and crafts.** **Projects must be the expression of a personal vocation of the candidates. They must be implemented within the Mediterranean Region, outside the candidates’ home country.** _The Foundation expects concrete results from the project. Whatever form of expression chosen – written, oral, visual, … – the outcome must be an original piece of work which the Foundation may consider helping to publish or promote. The candidate may decide to finalize the result of the project in residence at the Marc de Montalembert Foundation on the island of Rhodes in Greece. The subjects treated by grant beneficiaries for thirty projects since 1994 come under the headings of: “Sculpture”, “Literature”, “Music”, “Painting”, “ Engraving”, “Architecture”, “Sociology”, “Photography”, “Ethnography”, “Art History”, “Musicology”._