The Institut français fund for getting French work onto stages outside France, open until 30 October.
PIDA is the money behind a lot of the French touring you see abroad. Baro d'Evel's Qui som? went to Japan and Taiwan in 2026 with PIDA support, which is the clearest illustration of what the fund is for.
It is open to companies and to artists directly, not just to institutions, and it closes on 30 October.
The Institut français runs PIDA with the ministry of Europe and foreign affairs and the ministry of culture. It funds three kinds of project.
Diffusion: a tour, a solo or group exhibition, a presence at a festival or a market. Cooperation: collaboration between French and international artistic teams or organisations, including art schools, for transmission or joint creation. And presence at major prescriptive events, meaning a significant showing of French teams or artists based in France at the events that set the agenda in contemporary creation.
The application window ran from 1 July and closes on 30 October 2026. Institut français publishes the minutes of the previous commission, which is the most useful document available for understanding how decisions actually get made.
- ·Artists, set designers, curators, collectives and companies.
- ·French cultural institutions and structures: production offices, bookers, museums, art centres, festivals, biennials, studios, publishers, labels.
- ·Foreign cultural institutions and structures hosting French artists: festivals, biennials, museums, art centres, labels, distributors, publishers.
- ·The French cultural network abroad, meaning Instituts français and Alliances françaises. Embassy cultural services can apply on condition they have a partner able to receive and commit the funds.
- ·The disciplines named are architecture, visual arts, digital creation, photography, design, métiers d'art, music and spectacle vivant. Circus sits inside spectacle vivant.
- ·Artists have to be French or based in France, including the overseas territories.