Our foundations under aegis

The Ecosphera Foundation was set up to support cutting-edge research into the interactions between biodiversity and society, and to establish collaborative, transdisciplinary networks to maximise the societal impact of its work.

Its missions: to provide a set of free and open software for the design of silicon integrated circuits (chips); to provide a set of libraries of standard cells and portable analogue blocks; to fund circuit design projects.

CULTEXP addresses the problem of the hyperspecialisation of justice and its difficulty in taking into account the diversity in today's society. It proposes cultural expertise as an innovative theoretical framework validated by the scientific community for integrating diversity into the management of justice.

For nearly 80 years, the Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO) has helped to structure Franco-British research and academic relations in the United Kingdom. The MFO Foundation will receive donations and legacies for the benefit of the Maison Française d'Oxford.

The Science4Reefs foundation was set up to play an active role in developing bold, innovative research to identify new solutions to limit the loss of coral reef biodiversity due to environmental changes.

The Albédo Foundation is headed by Frederik PAULSEN, Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ferring Pharmaceuticals. The foundation's mission is to support scientific programmes of interest to French and French-speaking scientists, both nationally and internationally, relating to the cryosphere and in particular to the North and South Polar Regions or very high altitude zones.

Foundation created by renown marine biologist Françoise GAILL to support the initiative of the International Panel for a Sustainable Ocean. Its mission is to support actions linked to the protection of marine and ocean environments. The IPOS project is proposed as a coordination scheme for integrating knowledge systems in order to build a bridge between ocean science and policy, to be presented to the United Nations Conference on the Oceans held in 2025 in Nice (UNOC 2025).

Created to support the Training, Research, Innovation Transfer and entrepreneurship of the IDBio project (Sustainable Engineering of Biobased Products), labelled by Unesco. Bringing together 6 African universities and 7 French higher education and research establishments, its missions are to assess: sustainable development, poverty reduction and gender equity; scientific and technological development for job creation; contributions to Africa's priority needs (nutrition, green chemistry, health, cosmetics, bioenergy, biopesticides, biofertilisers, biomaterials).

The Foundation's mission is to create a community space around a common (open-source) technology aimed at democratising access to power electronics, a technology at the heart of the electrification of society that is essential to the energy transition.

A Foundation whose ambition is to develop research in the field of Geographic Information Sciences in order to assess and anticipate the impact of human societies on climate and the environment and to support the ecological transition in landscapes.

The Foundation promotes the development of academic activities with a global and regional outlook, respecting the specific characteristics of different civilisations.