 Arts and culture policies in French universities: A specific model of cultural policy? 
University cultural action has been structured in France for a long time, in the wake of the cultural policy of the 1980s. It maintains an ambivalent relationship with the dominant models of cultural policy. The campuses have developed specific approaches, which, after having been on the fringes of cultural policies, are today at the heart of the debates which agitate these policies (participation, cultural rights, cultural diversity). They have as their focal point the question of the differentiation between audiences and actors of culture. The project methodologies defined with the students (where they are both a target of the cultural offer and a major asset of the cultural life of the campuses) give substance to a notion that is often quite theoretical, even fantasized : cultural democracy.