Nicolas Bertrand advises artistic teams, institutions and local authorities to imagine, design and manage lasting European cultural cooperations.
⤷ For more than twenty years, I have been working with teams in the performing arts, classical music, heritage and the visual arts.
⤷ My expertise is based on a proven practice of European funding, mainly Creative Europe, and on a deep knowledge of European cultural policies.
⤷ My approach relies on collective work and on the use of cooperative methods.
Services ⤵
Project design and management
A tailor-made offer to meet your objectives, adapted to your resources and to European opportunities.
Defining the strategy
Developing the European roadmap of your organisation (context, partnership, internal capacities, funding) to design a project that serves your journey.
Strengthening the proposal
Structuring a solid project and adapting it to the requirements and criteria of European calls for proposals. Anticipating its feasibility for your team and your partners.
Steering the implementation
Supporting the operational implementation so that the consortium can focus with greater confidence on the content and the results.
Organising professional meetings
I design and organise formats for immersion and exchange (learning trips, workshops, professional meetings) to figure out together the European cultural and societal challenges and to co-build new ways of acting.
A few clients and partners
Centre Culturel de Rencontre d'Ambronay
Mozarteum University Salzburg
Bourges, Capitale Européenne de la Culture 2028
European Festivals Association
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Lyon
Compagnie Maqamat
My background
Independent consultant since 2018, my practice is based on a strong involvement in European networks and on a vision that integrates sustainability issues.
I carry out my consulting activity in partnership with Ina Studenroth, Helena De Winter and Fanny Bouquerel. Together with other international consultants, I bring together an expertise hub capable of handling assignments of any scale.
Previously, I was the administrative director of a theatre company based in Lyon, whose creations have been performed in more than 40 countries and which was especially supported by the EU as a "European Cultural Ambassador"
Journal
Reports, testimonials, readings and documentation illustrating my professional practice.
