French Institute in Slovenia

Contact

This logo is missing!

If you have it, please email it to us.

Francoski inštitut Charles Nodier / L’Institut Français Charles Nodier

Breg 12/II, SI-1000 Ljubljana

http://www.institutfrance.si

Phone386 (0) 1 200 0500

Founded byEmbassy of the French Republic in Slovenia

Jean-Jacques Victor, Director

jean-jacques.victor@institutfrance.si

L’Institut Français Charles Nodier (IFCN) performs its cultural and educational activities in close collaboration with several French institutions, e.g., la Maison des Cultures du Monde, Paris; l'Association Française d'Action Artistique (AFAA); l’Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles, Grenoble; l'Université Paris-Dauphine, Paris; l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliotheques Villeurbanne and la Direction des Archives de France, Paris.

The institute aims to create contact points between Slovene and French forms of contemporary cultural expression. It also deals with classical culture in all its aspects, runs French language courses in Ljubljana and in France, administers exams and awards certificates, offers grants to translators, and manages a library and a mediatheque/information centre. The IFCN administers scholarships for study and research purposes every year.

Support programme for publishers

L’Institut Français Charles Nodier also runs the Valentin Vodnik Support Programme for Publishers which helps defray publishing costs for French works published in Slovenian language. Recent works are given priority. It was named after the Slovene poet and journalist Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819), who was a fervent supporter of Napoleon Bonaparte's occupation of the Slovene lands in the 1810s and promoted the use of Slovenian language during that time.

French Government bursaries

The French Government offers various scholarships for one- to three-month postgraduate study visits to France, in fields which include humanistic and social sciences. Where Slovene and French university cooperation is concerned, stipends are offered for co-tutoring, enabling students to conduct combined research in both countries. Co-tutoring stipends for postgraduate studies are offered in cooperation with the Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund.

A special kind of stipend is also available for Slovene translators to translate French works of literature for publication within one year by a Slovene publisher: translators get financial support for a residency at the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires in Arles, France.

See also

• Valentin Vodnik Support Programme for Publishers
• Slovene Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund
• Embassy of the French Republic in Slovenia
• EUNIC Slovenia

External links

• French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier, Ljubljana website (in Slovenian and French)
• French Cultural Institute Charles Nodier, Ljubljana on Facebook
• Valentin Vodnik Support Programme for Publishers web page (in Slovenian)
• Valentin Vodnik on Wikipedia