.Presentation of the school - Nîmes

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International mobility
E.S.B.A.N.
International relations and ERASMUS strategy
For the past 5 years, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes
(ESBAN) has developed a policy of exchange and collaboration
with institutions in other countries. Each year, nearly 30% of the
students participate in exchanges with schools in Europe (Belgrade,
Leipzig and Prague) and China (Shenyang).
ESBAN belongs to the networks ELIA, ART ACCORD France
and Age d’Or (a network of the art schools in the South of France).
The school aims at enhancing the individual mobility of students.
They thus obtain better information about evolutions in the
art world and changes in professional sectors in art and creation,
making conditions favourable for them for the development of a
fulfilling personal and professional project.
ERASMUS mobility
Within the framework of the EU Lifelong Learning Programme
(LLLP), thanks to the Erasmus programme, ESBAN and its academic
team wish to participate in the construction of a European area
of higher education in art that is open in terms of education and
training. For this, it wishes to develop bilateral agreements with institutions
dispensing education and training that are complementary
to that of ESBAN. It hopes that while aiming at quality and the sharing
of competences, these exchanges will become a laboratory to
nourish individual experiences and joint projects.
Contacts have already been made with agreements in mind
with the academies of Urbino and Macerata (Italian art schools) within
the framework of the ERASMUS programme (charter awarded
in May 2008).
The human scale of our school favours a warm welcome and
personalised supervision adapted to each new student so that he or
she is never left to fend for himself/herself but participates fully in
the life of the school right from the beginning.
After each trip and each exchange, the students and teachers
recount their experience at conferences and working groups open
to all the students and staff of the school.
Without any discrimination and with respect for gender equality
mobile students benefit from personal supervision and also powerful
teaching focused on contemporary artistic practices. They participate
in a workshop/laboratory to materialise travelling exhibitions
of the work in progress type between the various partner institutions.
The school has two exhibition rooms on its premises where
the exhibition schedules already alternate between exhibitions of
students’ work and exhibitions by international artists. The publishing
section is also active in the accompaniment of all these
actions and also in the production of specific, individual objects.
Located in the heart of the Mediterranean arc—the second
most important zone in France for work in modern and contemporary
art—the city of Nîmes, with an important archaeological and
historical heritage, has acquired ambitious structures for art (art
school, municipal galleries, Musée d’art contemporain, Carré d’Art
library, Fine Arts Museum). Of course, the development of the
school will continue to use this rich fabric and synergy.