Projects to support
4 strategic areas, a single ambition: commitment to science and knowledge
Participate in EPHE-PSL projects. By helping to promote its heritage, strengthen its research, support its students towards success and promote its links with the socio-economic world, you can support its ambitions for excellence in the humanities and social sciences as well as in the life and earth sciences.
Axis 1: Investing in cutting-edge research
The EPHE develops and defends fundamental research and monitors the concrete applications that can be drawn from it. It creates new interdisciplinary approaches with the ambition of addressing the environmental, medical, health, social, religious, ethical or cultural problems facing the contemporary world. On a daily basis, in rare and varied disciplinary fields, it provides evidence of world-renowned expertise that builds the foundation for tomorrow's scientific developments.
Examples of projects
- Highlighting a fragile ecosystem and its dynamics with a view to preserving nature and living things: Union sand – animal reef and salt meadow: when sand connects land to sea
Collection objective: €250,000 is needed to map the animal-mineral-plant system, highlight its multi-decadal dynamics and anticipate the consequences of its transformation.
- Deciphering the genetic, molecular and cellular mechanisms involved in the development of von Hippel-Lindau disease and kidney cancers
Target fundraising: €450,000 over 3 years to carry out the necessary genomic studies and associated bioinformatics analyses.
Axis 2: Supporting our students and young researchers
For 150 years, the EPHE has attracted the best students, so that they can study and train in niches of scholarship regardless of their social status or country of origin. Cultural diversity and social diversity are considerable assets for an establishment like ours. Faced with the current economic crisis, which threatens and weakens students, it is more necessary than ever to give them the financial support and resources they need to flourish and continue their studies.
Examples of projects
- Funding of language scholarships
Target fundraising: €60,000 per year to finance language certifications for our master's students.
- Mobility grants
Fundraising goal: €50,000 per year to award international mobility grants: field missions, laboratory internships, research stays, conferences.
Axis 3: Safeguarding and transmitting the history and memory of ancient civilizations and worlds
The treasures of archaeological sites, ancient languages and texts are under threat everywhere. Our actions on the ground around the world raise awareness of the importance of preserving and transmitting this tangible and intangible heritage. Our documentary collections are rich in sound recordings, old photographs, precious books that have marked the history of international relations, diplomacy, war, medicine and religions. Our work allows us to develop critical thinking in the service of a globalized world.
Example project
- Digitization of seals and enrichment of a database: preserving, transmitting and enhancing this threatened heritage, the seals of the Middle Ages, the smallest means of great history
Collection objective: €150,000 per year is needed to continue enriching the database with 10,000 new seals each year.
Axis 4: Weaving the link between the socio-economic world and research
Our four institutes' mission is to train, disseminate and promote the state of knowledge in the fields of ageing and associated pathologies, the environment and the safeguarding of biodiversity, the history and current affairs of secularism and religious issues, and rare languages. They forge links between the academic world, companies, local authorities and civil society. Beyond reflection, they guide and advise public or private strategies and train for the jobs of tomorrow.
Project examples
- Training of life coordinators by the Transdisciplinary Institute for the Study of Aging (ITEV)
Target fundraising: €90,000 over 3 years to finance a new class of companions each year.
- Development of the Institute of Rare Languages (ILARA), a centre for training, expertise and resources on rare languages, with or without written tradition
Target fundraising: €250,000 is needed to keep the institute alive for two years.
How to make a donation?
By cheque or bank transfer, download the donation form
Who to contact?
Head of sponsorship and endowment fund