The AIVANCITY Endowment Fund : Contributing to the development of diversity and social inclusion
The objective of the AIVANCITY Endowment Fund is to contribute to diversity and social inclusion by financing scholarships for students based on social criteria and academic excellence. It also aims to develop scientific research activities that contribute to the evolution of Artificial Intelligence and Data science knowledge and practices, while integrating trust and ethics principles.
The fund also aims to promote and develop excellence-based education within its regional and professional environment and guarantee equal access to it.
The principle of constitutional value of equal access to education for citizens and the undeniable affirmation of the role of training as an asset for social mobility to reduce social and economic inequalities are behind the creation of this endowment fund.
Beyond its technical challenges, AI today raises many questions about its implications on business and management, but also on tomorrow's Man and Society. The AIVANCITY Endowment Fund also intends, by financing R&D, to advance AI's applications and address changes in business practices and society's expectations.
The purpose of the fund covers any action of general interest that contributes to financing the support of any person in material or moral difficulty. The fund's means of action are essentially :
- Awarding scholarships or prizes to students based on social criteria and academic excellence to enable them to finance their studies, help pay for international mobility and/or carry out a professional project
- Accompanying people in difficulty to establish a skills assessment and define a strategy for professional reintegration
- Financing of training courses for people struggling with difficulties.
Any initiative in the field of research and development in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, by the following means:
- The production and implementation of projects, chairs or research programs
- The distribution of research grants
- The constitution and animation of researchers' networks and the information of the public on the fund's activities and the current state of research in artificial intelligence and data science
- The organization of research, training, meetings, symposiums, seminars, etc.
- The publication of any analysis, work, thesis, nomenclature, etc. within the scope of its subject matter
- The organization of workshops, courses, training courses and any activity promoting the dissemination of a culture of Artificial Intelligence and responsible and ethical data science
Any action for the promotion and development of an education of excellence rooted in its regional and professional environment, and allowing to guarantee equal access, by the following means :
- Receiving and managing by capitalizing them, the goods and rights of any nature which are brought to it on a free and irrevocable basis, with a view to redistributing earnings in order to assist it in the deployment of its works and missions of general interest and to carry out projects of an exceptional nature. The fund's resources will be used, among other things, for the students of aivancity school for Technology Business & Society, in order to enable them to participate in competitions, to organize conferences, humanitarian and charitable actions and more generally to develop their skills. To this end, it will be able to cover expenses of all kinds.
Become a member of the aivancity endowment fund
The Endowment Fund is an innovative tool for financing patronage. It was launched by Article 140 of Law No. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 on the modernization of the economy, which combines the strengths of the 1901 Association Law and the Foundation. Endowed with full legal personality, the Endowment Fund consists of an irrevocable allocation of assets to carry out a mission or a work of general interest.