Each year, several specialized chairs, partially or totally financed, are awarded to high calibur research institutes.
The chairs are awarded to finance a research program and/or remunerate one or two incumbent(s) partially or in total.
These AXA chairs can be:
- temporary (3-5 years)
- permanent. In this case, the research institution are endowed with nonexpendable capital which will generate sustainable resources.
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 one of the Fund's partner countries [1].
[1] wich are : Switzerland, Israel, Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Turkey, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and Singapore.
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Life risks
Late 2010 - University of Strasbourg - Fundamental Chemistry
Permanent AXA Chair in Supramolecular Chemistry
Support: 2 000 000€
July 2010 - Newcastle University - Longevity
Permanent AXA Chair on Longevity and Healthy Active Life
Chair Holder: Carol Jagger, Professor of Epidemiology
Support: 750 000€
June 2010 - Ecole Polytechnique - Longevity
Permanent AXA Chair in Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering
Chair Holder: Abdul Barakat, Professor, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering and researcher at the Ecole Polytechnique's Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX)
Support: 2 000 000€
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October 2009 - Paris Descartes - Longevity
AXA Chair for a systems approach to individual differences in longevity
Chair Holder: François Taddei, Geneticist, Director of Research INSERM
Support: 1 250 000€ for 5 years
Socio-economic risks
Summer 2010 - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE) - Economics and Finance
Permanent AXA Chair on Macroeconomic Risk
Support: 1 250 000€
June 2010 - HEC - Economics and Decision Sciences
Permanent AXA Chair on Decision Sciences
Chair Holder: Itzhak Gilboa, Professor of Economics
Support: 1 000 000€
June 2008 - Toulouse School of Economics - Economics and Finance
Blank Capital Endowment
Scientific Leader: Jean Tirole, Economist, Chairman of the Board of Directors TSE
Support: 3 000 000€ in joint partnership with EXANE
Other projects
November 2009 - Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) - Fundamental Mathematics
Permanent AXA Chair of Mathematics
Chair Holder: Maxim Kontsevich
Support: 3 000 000€