Nine new projects
for a new Francophonie.

Cultures juxtaposed rather than in dialogue

La Francophonie brings together cultures that brush against each other more than they speak to one another. Young Francophones from Abidjan, Beirut, Phnom Penh or Trois-Rivières share a language, but few of their creations circulate beyond national borders. The cross-fertilization potential remains largely untapped.

Turn Francophone cultures into a circulation system

Create a permanent Francophone Intercultural Gatherings programme blending physical events and a digital platform. Francophone artists, intellectuals, entrepreneurs and social actors will find a space to meet, co-produce and share their work. Francophone diversity will become an active collective intelligence.

• An annual summit of Francophone cultures, rotating between continents

• A digital platform for distributing French-language works

• A mobility fund for 1,000 young Francophone creators per year

• Cross-residencies between cultural institutions of member states

National languages pushed to the margins

Lingala, Swahili, Wolof, Fula, Bambara, Khmer: the national languages of Francophone countries are too often treated as folkloric remnants, even though they carry millions of speakers and considerable intellectual heritages. This implicit hierarchy weakens La Francophonie by distancing it from its peoples.

Recognise and organise linguistic plurality

From the Lingalaphonie to the Swahiliphonie, from the Wolofphonie to the Khmerophonie, set up a Francophone framework for the systematic promotion of sister languages. La Francophonie will cease to be mono-linguistic to become a true community of languages — where French remains the language of mediation, but where national languages are recognised, funded and transmitted.

• Creation of a Francophone Observatory of sister languages

• Bilingual teaching programmes in Francophone schools

• Editorial production fund in national languages

• Indexing and digitisation of Francophone oral heritage

• Intra-Francophone literary translation platform

Francophone ecosystems on the front line

The Congo Basin, the tropical forests of Indochina, the Sahelian ecosystems, the Francophone polar territories: La Francophonie gathers some of the most strategic — and most threatened — ecosystems on the planet. Yet the Francophone climate voice remains fragmented and inaudible in international negotiations.

An exemplary Francophone Climate Pact

Build a common ecological governance for all Francophone countries, based on the protection of major forest and marine ecosystems, the sharing of transition technologies and the coordination of positions in COPs. La Francophonie will become a recognised ecological actor rather than a sum of isolated states.

• Creation of a permanent Francophone Climate Council

• Platform for sharing energy transition technologies

• Intra-Francophone green investment fund

• Coordinated common position at every COP

• Coordinated protection programme for the Congo Basin

Francophones kept from meeting each other

Francophones in Africa, Asia, America and Europe share a language but are separated by often absurd administrative barriers. A Cameroonian academic can be turned away in Paris, a Senegalese entrepreneur blocked in Montréal, a Vietnamese student prevented in Brussels. Real, lived Francophonie is throttled by borders.

A Francophone Visa and shared justice

Create a Francophone Visa for students, researchers, artists and entrepreneurs of member states. In parallel, lay the foundations of a common Francophone legal space to better protect Francophone nationals abroad and ease mutual recognition of qualifications, diplomas and patents.

• Francophone student visa with simplified procedure

• Professional mobility visa for 5,000 talents per year

• Mutual diploma recognition convention

• Intra-Francophone judicial assistance protocol

• Permanent office for Francophone citizens abroad

Millennia-old knowledge left unvalued

The traditional pharmacopoeias of Francophone Africa, Asia and the Caribbean hold a heritage of therapeutic knowledge that remains largely undocumented, unprotected and unvalued. Francophone populations also bear considerable pharmaceutical import costs, in an industrial dependency that weakens their health sovereignty.

An innovative Francophone health industry

Launch a Francophone research programme uniting modern science and ancestral medical knowledge, in a dynamic of pharmaceutical co-industrialisation. La Francophonie will become a global laboratory of integrative medicine and an actor in a shared health industry — to heal is also to reconcile memories.

• Creation of a Francophone Institute of Integrative Medicine

• Documentation programme for traditional pharmacopoeias

• Intellectual property fund protecting ancestral knowledge

• Industrial partnerships for 10 medicines of Francophone origin

• Network of research centres in shared health

A Francophone youth facing fractures

Francophone youth face multiform fractures — intercommunity conflicts, political polarisation, online radicalisation. They are also the first to carry the aspiration for dialogue and concord. But they lack the tools, training and networks to turn that aspiration into active competence.

Train scientifically in peace building

Create a Francophone Academy of Peace dedicated to training engineers of dialogue, technicians of conflict resolution, experts in peace-making interculturality and architects of reconciliation. Generation Z will become the Peace Generation — through method, science and engagement.

• A permanent academy on a Francophone campus (seat to be decided)

• Degree programmes in peace building (Master + PhD)

• Network of 50 youth referents in member states

• Deployment programme in conflict or tension zones

• Scholarship fund for 500 students per cohort

A digital divide that threatens cohesion

While some Francophone territories access the cutting edge of digital innovation, others remain deprived of connection, training and digital opportunities. This divide threatens Francophone cohesion: language is not enough to unite if access to digital knowledge separates.

An inclusive Francophone digital space

Build an interconnected, secure and inclusive Francophone digital infrastructure. Guarantee every Francophone citizen fair access to knowledge, innovation and the opportunities of the digital world — regardless of geography, income or gender.

• Digital connectivity plan for enclaved Francophone areas

• Mutualised Francophone online learning platform

• Coordinated cybersecurity between member states

• Support fund for 100 Francophone digital startups per year

• Francophone standard for data sovereignty

A community without an audible symbol

La Francophonie has a flag, summits, institutions. But it has no anthem. No song that unites, in shared emotion, the peoples that compose it. Yet human communities are also forged by audible symbols — by what they sing together.

Give La Francophonie a unifying anthem

Create, through an open and participatory composition process, the Anthem of La Francophonie. A work that will bring together poets, composers and performers from the five Francophone continents. A song that can be heard in schools, at summits, on every International Francophonie Day — to give a sung memory to our fraternity.

• International composition contest open to all Francophones

• Listening committee representing the five continents

• Multilingual creation (text in several Francophone languages)

• Official release on the 2028 International Day

• Educational programme for learning in schools