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The Foundation

"The Foundation's corporate members are happy to support the school in its ambition to be the world reference in terms of fashion design, management and savoir-faire", Bruno Pavlovsky, President of Chanel's fashion activities, President of the Institut Français de la Mode Foundation.

The Foundation, established under the aegis of the Fondation de France, reflects the school's commitment to building strong, lasting, and structured relationships—both with companies supporting its development and with alumni and individual donors.

Its primary mission is to foster social diversity within the school by funding scholarships. It also supports research and pedagogical innovation.

Mission

The Foundation's mission is to support the development of research and educational innovation at Institut Français de la Mode and to help the school implement its equal opportunities policy through the financing of scholarships for students.

Its three main missions are:

1. Support the school's strategy for social and international diversity

The Foundation helps Institut Français de la Mode train the talents of tomorrow, whatever their social background. The funds donated each year by the Foundation's partners (companies and graduates) are used to finance scholarships based on social criteria for students admitted to the school's programs.

  • A proactive scholarship policy: priority given to scholarships based on social criteria
  • 25% of students concerned

2. Supporting research and teaching

  • Development of research and teaching chairs on key issues for companies
  • Contribution to reference publications in the academic field

3. Supporting innovation

  • In terms of pedagogical approaches (4.0 industry or non-technological innovation)
  • Entrepreneurship development: Participation in the development of partnerships with the actors of the digital, tech and start-up ecosystems.

Institut Français de la Mode's Foundation is hosted by the Fondation de France.

Members

The Institut Français de la Mode Foundation brings together French and international companies and individual donors to support the school's development projects and equal opportunity program.

  • Visibility and recruitment initiatives
  • Participation in academic and pedagogical projects
  • Participation in the school's scholarship fund
  • Creation of chairs

Members

Become our partner

Becoming a member of Institut Français de la Mode's Foundation is a unique opportunity to create a long-term relationship with the school and to benefit from exceptional visibility on campus.

Companies

The Foundation builds a tailor-made partnership with each company in order to meet its specific objectives and challenges.

A range of diversified services may be implemented such as:

  • Visibility or recruitment operations.
  • Participation in academic projects.
  • Participation in the activities of the entrepreneurship cluster and the IFM Incubator.
  • Participation in the school's scholarship fund.
  • The creation of a nominative scholarship.
  • The creation of chairs.

Graduates

The Foundation gives alumni the opportunity to participate in fundraising, a unifying project, in order to provide tuition scholarships, cost of living grants or financial aid to help students buy their supplies.

Contact

Bérangère Pagès — Executive Director of the Foundation

Email:
fondation@ifmparis.fr