Our mission

Ezra Suleiman
« 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.

Related documents

AXA Research Fund Institutionnal Movie

Granted projects

€ 63 million committed, 256 research projects supported in 22 countries, 42 different nationalities.

Find out more about granted projects

News

March 21st : British Council -Science Po conference on Uncertainty in Decision Making with Denis Duverne !

The British Council in France and the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI), in collaboration with the AXA Research Fund are pleased to invite you to attend a public panel discussion: “Scientific uncertainty in decision-making”

The campaigns calendar for 2012 will be issued in the coming weeks

Many of you ask us when the new campaigns calendar will be issued. We are happy to let you know that we will publish it on October 3rd.

How to obtain funding

Institutions and researchers: find out more about our grants.