AXA Group

Each year, one or two research institutions are endowed with non-expendable capital with a view to generating sustainable resources.

The Fund works directly with the Scientific Council to examine requests from research institutions, and awards substantial sums to the best projects.

Eligible applicants are research institutes with a high level of excellence and international scope situated within one of the European Union member states or within an associated country as defined in the FP7 [1]

N.B. a maximum of one request per year for each research institution.

[1] FP7 Third Country Agreements (PDF file)
Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, Albania and Montenegro

• The Paris School of Economics

The Paris School of Economics was set up in February 2007 with the aim of increasing the visibility of French economic research, and welcomes private financing (4 million euros of private funding for a total initial capital of 24 million). AXA has contributed one million euros of capital to this institution, which draws on the top Parisian research centers (in particular ENS, EHESS, ENPC, ENSAE, the Ecole Polytechnique and Paris 3, Paris 6 and Paris 9 Universities).

AXA's CEO, Henri de Castries, sits on the administrative council of the PSE in a "private partner" capacity.

• The "Fondation du Risque"

This public interest foundation , has been created in partnership with Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE, Paris Dauphine University and the Center for Actuarial Studies. Its missions are:

To create a French center of excellence in research and teaching, of an international standard, with a focus on risk of any sort, through the study of scientific, statistical, economic, legal and social aspects.

To promote the rational appreciation of risk and its consequences, both positive and negative, and to encourage interdisciplinary exchanges between academics and professionals.

To contribute to the definition of policies for preventing and managing risk, both at microeconomic and macroeconomic level.

To develop education methods on risk, to increase the understanding of its mechanisms and to disseminate knowledge on the subject, with and for its partners and aimed at decision-makers in the public and private domain, as well as at the general public.

AXA sits on the foundation's supervisory board in its capacity as founder member.