At the end of a mission launched after the Great Debate, Aurore Bergé gives this Monday a report to Edouard Philippe on the democratization of culture. At the microphone of Europe 1, the member for Yvelines defeats part of her 60 proposals, insisting on the place that the public audiovisual sector must have and the importance to be given to early childhood.

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Following the Great National Debate, the Prime Minister entrusted the deputy Aurore Bergé with a mission to the Minister of Culture. The objective is simple: to promote access for all to culture. At the microphone of Philippe Vandel on Europe 1, the member for Yvelines returned to several of the 60 measures in the report which she gave this Monday to Edouard Philippe.

"Every child in our country should have access to culture"

Proposal number one: introduce the concept of "cultural health" in health books. "There’s a lot going on in the first 1,000 days of a child's life. And if during that time, you weren't in contact with sound, music, movement, the book , well there is something that you missed in your construction of the very young child ", justifies Aurore Bergé at the microphone of Europe 1.

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The member for Yvelines takes up this concept from a proposal by psychoanalyst Sophie Marinopoulos, formulated last year, emphasizing a cultural awakening suitable for toddlers. "Today, in a health book, you have a lot of recommendations that are made. To speak of" cultural health "is to say that every child in our country should have access to culture."

Public broadcasting: "an incredible strike force"

For Aurore Bergé, public broadcasting "is an incredible strike force to allow cultural democratization". "And you have to think of public broadcasting in this way," she said. Asked by Philippe Vandel about the relatively weak audiences of Arte, who nevertheless broadcasts cultural programs daily, Aurore Bergé counterbalances. "Arte has progressed a lot in recent years, and the audience for their social networks is rather in their thirties, which is very interesting to watch," she explains.

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"But that means that culture must also be at audience crossroads, where people watch television. It must be on France 2, it must be on France 3", says- she, recalling that "public broadcasting is almost half of the Ministry of Culture".

"Public broadcasting is almost half the budget of the Ministry of Culture. It is an incredible strike force for cultural democratization." @ # Europe1 culturepourtouspic.twitter.com / CwXWJCYZ9C

- Aurore Bergé (@auroreberge) February 17, 2020

Media education on the teacher's agenda

The deputy also proposes in her report the delivery of a "cultural passport" to all the pupils of CM1, or the fact of sponsoring each high school by an author, and each college by an artist of the department. Aurore Bergé also proposes to integrate Media and Information Education (EMI) into teacher training. "Before being able to transmit, you must also be able to be trained on what the media are and especially on what is not a media," explains the deputy.

"We have such a volume of available content that we can no longer distinguish what is information and what is not information [...] We need to train teachers so that they can transmit it ", continues Aurore Bergé, affirming that," in the situation in which we find ourselves, there is no longer any choice ".