Below is a roundup of the key events during the Swiss Embassy's presidency of GADIF:

28 February – 3 March 2022: Writer's residency “10 SUR 10” in Sieraków

Five playwrights from the French speaking part of Switzerland participated in this year's edition of the residency program “10 SUR 10” held in Sieraków and organized by Drameducation. During their residency, playwrights from various francophone countries conducted drama workshops with Polish school classes in French, thus inspiring students to improve their French language skills.

18 - 25 March 2022: Francophone film festival, online

In cooperation with different GADIF members and the VOD platform Ninateka, this year's online edition of the festival included Ellie Grappe's feature film “Olga” (2021), Switzerland's official submission at the 94th Academy Awards and winner of the 2022 Swiss Film Awards for best feature film.

22 March 2022: Literary evening dedicated to Swiss travel writer Nicolas Bouvier, Warsaw

Prof. Anna Mańkowska-Dudka, French language professor at University of Warsaw and former recipient of a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, presented and discussed excerpts from Nicolas Bouvier's “Le Dehors et le dedans” which she had translated into Polish. Her translation (in Polish: “Na zewnatrz i w srodku”) was published by the Polish Writers' Association.

26 April 2022: Francophone encounters at Primary School #12 in Warsaw

The Swiss Embassy together with Primary School #12 in Warsaw, which teaches French as first foreign language, invited the diplomatic community and other guests to a creative afternoon of musical performances by the school's students.

9 May 2022, 19h00: “Les Nuits de Varsovie” at the Mazowiecki Cultural Institute in Warsaw

“Les Nuits de Varsovie” featured concerts by Swiss electropop duo Sophie de Quay as well as by high school students who participated in last year's edition of “Les Nuits du Monde”. “Les Nuits du Monde” (see below) is a Francophone song contest and music festival for secondary school students as well as for francophone singer-songwriters/bands from around the world. The concerts on 9 May at Mazowiecki Cultural Institute set the stage for the launch of the second edition of “Les Nuits du Monde” in Poland, which will be held in the City of Zabrze in the autumn of 2022. The event is organized by L'Iris Création and supported by the Swiss Embassy and the Institut français.

September/October 2022 “Les Nuits du Monde” in Zabrze

“Les Nuits du Monde” is a competition and festival of contemporary francophone songs in which students of secondary school age choose a piece from a predefined repertoire, perform it and then send their recordings to a jury. The 20 winners are then invited to travel to Zabrze (Poland) in autumn 2022 where they have the unique opportunity to meet the singers-songwriters/bands that wrote the songs and to learn from them in workshops. The artists have been selected to reflect a multitude of styles and backgrounds, representing different countries of the francophone world: Belgium, Burkina Faso, France, Senegal and Switzerland. The project is organized by L'Iris Création and supported by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Institut français, the City of Zabrze, and the Swiss Embassy in Poland.