Starting in November 2025, MansA Lab, the MansA incubator, will welcome cultural entrepreneurs through a program combining mentoring, training, shared resources, and networking. Open to innovative narratives and formats, it prioritizes profiles that are rarely represented in conventional support schemes.
By MansA
Published on July 20, 2025
The MansA incubator has been designed as a catalyst to support a new generation of creators, cultural entrepreneurs, and project leaders. It targets professionals in the cultural and creative industries — artist-entrepreneurs, curators, producers, emerging media, hybrid organizations — who are exploring new forms, narratives, and practices. More than a support program, this incubator serves as a resource hub, a space for acceleration, and a platform to collectively create the conditions for a genuine paradigm shift in the cultural sector.
Beyond individual support, MansA Lab seeks to build a dynamic community that acts as a think tank and idea laboratory. This community is fully integrated into the MansA ecosystem, which combines an on-site program with a broader connected network. The incubator rests on three complementary pillars:
- - Personalized support: mentoring, training in project management, strategy, business models, editorial and artistic content, communications, and fundraising.
- - Shared resources: access to workspaces, production tools, legal advice, sectoral expertise.
- - Strategic networking: connections with institutional partners, cultural venues, funders, and actors in social and artistic innovation.
Each cohort is open through a call for applications, with special attention to profiles often underrepresented in traditional support programs: individuals from African diasporas, working-class neighborhoods, and regions with limited access to major cultural centers.
A First Cohort Focused on New Narratives
From November 2025 to June 2026, the first MansA Lab cohort will host 14 projects that showcase new forms of storytelling applied to the cultural and creative industries. The projects cover a variety of fields—media, audiovisual, publishing, fashion, cross-media—and aim to foster initiatives at the crossroads of disciplines, capable of reinventing ways of telling stories, showing and transmitting. Discover the 14 incubated projects.
Recognizing regional disparities, the project’s scope also includes French regions in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. With support from AFD, each cohort will include at least three projects from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, Réunion, or Mayotte
