Students from the Domaine d'Eguilles agricultural high schools in Vedène, La Ricarde in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue and Pétrarque in Avignon, will be hosted at the Villa Médicis in Rome, from May 19 to 23, 2025 during the operation Professional Residence. Assignment ? Promote the excellence of vocational and agricultural high school courses. An initiative of the Académie de France in Rome associated with the territories of Grand Est and Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur (Draaf and Drac Paca) to accommodate 300 students in residence. More than 70 Vaucluse students will be invited to the Villa Medici in Rome.
Mission ?
Explore all technical, social, artisanal and artistic expressions. In detail? Students from the South Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region will be invited to think further about living professions linked to nature and humans, through the environment, sustainable development, landscaping or still personal service, while those from the Grand Est region will deepen their knowledge on the professions of beauty and well-being, art such as glassmaking and textiles, the art of living with the hotel industry , food and catering.
Concretely
Students and their teachers will work, in class, around a material or immaterial work of their choice, linked on the one hand to Italian culture and on the other hand to their sector of training.
Students will travel to Rome
in May during a week of residency at the Villa Médicis, punctuated by experimental workshops, meetings with professionals in their sectors and artists in residence, visiting the city and sharing friendly moments.
In the context of equal opportunities
Created by the French Academy in Rome, the 'Residence Pro' educational program promotes professional sectors through a project combining Italian culture and student training sectors.
Throughout the school year
Students from high schools partnering with the operation will have to work on creating a masterpiece which will be presented at the Villa Medici in Rome. For this Pro 2025 Residence, the project will consist of designing and creating a collective masterpiece in class, with reference to Roman culture, on the theme 'Ecology and professions and production of works of art'. During this work week, high school students will also be able to be accompanied by entrepreneurs.
The Petrarch high school
The Pétrarque high school will work particularly on the patios – open-air interior courtyard which was intended to cool the house on hot days – and their third-place dimension – spaces open to all to exchange, work, interact.
La Ricarde high school
in L'Isle sur Sorgues will work on the project 'Nature in sculptures: meeting the wolf'. The students will present an iron sculpture on the theme of the wolf, in homage to Romulus and Remus, with a lot of research around the place of the animal in biodiversity. For this, the group – 23 students – will be accompanied by the artist Nicolas Eres, iron sculptor.
The Domaine d’Eguilles
in Vedène will work on avant-garde Antiquity, nature and decoration from motif to technique. Students will address how the ancient creative process is at the forefront of our time, while being part of a sustainable development approach. Concretely, after research work around the history of Roman and Gallo-Roman Antiquity, as well as around the ancient style and its main elements, the students will construct a decor and clothing referring to antiquity using the Eco-Print technique. For this, the group – 15 students – will be accompanied by Cloé Bergeon, former student and artist who will familiarize them with Eco-Print, and Elise Orrier who will introduce them to natural painting.
In total, 73 Vaucluse students are expected to go to the Villa Medici in Rome.
Other selected establishments
For the Alpes de Haute-Provence: Legta Digne – Carmejane at Chaffaut Saint Jurson; The Alpes Maritimes: Les Côteaux high schools in Cannes, Pasteur in Nice; for Bouches-du-Rhône: the Blaise Pascal and Denis Diderot high schools in Marseille and the Les Alpilles high school in Miramas; for the Var: the Paul Langevin high school in La Seyne-sur-mer.
This new 2025 edition
like the previous ones – since 2022 – is supported by the Villa Médicis – a national public establishment of the Ministry of Culture – and supported and led by the BNP Paribas and Cartier Foundation which work to develop awareness of artistic professions. The first edition was carried out with students from the Nouvelle Aquitaine region on the wood sectors.
