Rencontres Recherche et Création 2026

Since 2014, the French National Research Agency and the Avignon Festival have organised the Rencontres Recherche et Création. By bringing together artists and researchers from different disciplines, these international encounters will help to put into perspective creative works and recent research studies to explore the makings of our societies. It's a new space to share knowledge created with the public.

The arts, fiction and live performance continue to nourish our experience of the world and our thinking, and the scientific approach, through analysis, observation and experimentation, continues to push the boundaries of knowledge. Advances in research are constantly providing new knowledge showing how culture is an essential driver of human evolution and the constitution of societies. More than ever, culture and research must engage their forces of description of the world, reflection and invention.

COST is a supporting partner of the Rencontres Recherche et Création since several years.

This year the event has been reimagined and these encounters are resolutely open to the festival audience.
Registration is free of charge and the event is open to all interested public. Don't miss it!
Further details about the programme, registration, practicalities, etc. can be found on the event's website.