Our mission
« The AXA Research Fund was created to encourage scientific research that would contribute to understanding and preventing environmental, life, and socio-economic risks. »
Ezra Suleiman
President of the Scientific Board of the AXA Research Fund
Through research, protection
Protecting its clients and the community from risks is at the core of AXA's purpose.
Convinced that researching today will help better protecting tomorrow, the AXA Group has created the AXA Research Fund in January 2008.
Its mission is to boost scientific progress and discoveries that contribute to understand and prevent environmental, life and socio-economic risks.
It will thus foster innovative world-class research on those major risks, by:
Providing
Providing outstanding researchers with the best possible working conditions
Grantees assessed by well-recognized referees and an independent Scientific Board composed of world class experts
Robust and transparent selection processes
Contributing
Contributing to the development of highly competitive institutions
Contributing by giving substantial amounts that make a true difference
Encouraging
Boosting a living research community (Alumni Network) committed to a better understanding of major risks
The results of research are publicly available.
AXA doesn't own intellectual property of research results. The Fund does therefore not launch nor support contractual research, i.e. AXA dedicated business research.
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Granted projects
€ 63 million committed, 256 research projects supported in 22 countries, 42 different nationalities.
News
Pierre-André Chiappori quoted AXA Research Fund as a model of corporate funding of research
Pierre-André Chiappori, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, just published a study about the funding of research. He was interviewed on BFM radio to briefly present its results and quoted Henri de Castries and the AXA Research Fund as a model of corporate funding of research.
Natural disasters: using science to overcome risks
Floods, earthquakes, and storms. The recent series of large-scale natural disasters around the world poses new challenges for scientists. Natural disasters: the dismal list of events grows longer by the year, and this past year was no exception.
How to obtain funding
Institutions and researchers: find out more about our grants.
