The École Nationale des Chartes - PSL Foundation

The Board's main tasks are to approve the sheltered foundation's development strategy and ensure its implementation. It also adopts the general guidelines for the next few years, the annual action programme, and the foundation's budget.

Michelle Bubenicek, Chairwoman 

Members by right:

• Representative of the sheltering Foundation: Mr Alain Fuchs, represented by Mr Cédric Denis-Rémis, Vice-President of PSL University in charge of Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Founder's representative and Chair of the Board: Ms Michelle Bubenicek, Director of the École Nationale des Chartes 
• Representative of the Société de l'École des Chartes (SEC): Ms Marie-Françoise Limon-Bonnet, President of the SEC 
• Representative of the Association des étudiants de master de l'École des Chartes (ADEMEC): Ms Doriane Hare, President of ADEMEC 

Qualified personalities :

• M. Jean-François Balaudé, Inspector General of Higher Education and Research, former President of Paris-Nanterre University and Campus Condorcet
• Ms Marie-Anne Chabin, palaeographer archivist (1983)
• Ms Christine Macel Director of the Museums of Decorative Arts
• Mr Louis Gautier, Honorary Senior Advisor, Cour des Comptes (French Audit Office)

The Operational Team

Focus 1: Help promote social and international openness and equal opportunities

This will involve funding scholarships for trainees and master's and doctoral students recruited through the international selection process, but also based on social criteria, and global mobility scholarships. 

This sponsorship is also intended to support the participants in the training activities of the Africa Archives programme, which is part of the new UNESCO Chair ‘Les Archives au service des Nations et des Sociétés africaines’ (Archives in the Service of African Nations and Societies). 

Focus 2. Contribute to research and innovation in the humanities and social sciences

The School wishes to create awards, doctoral scholarships, and chairs on innovative themes and initiate or develop research programmes as part of a partnership approach such as the ‘Quartier Richelieu’ heritage enhancement project of the ‘web archives and new digital heritage objects’ project.

Focus 3. Help promote the School's library treasures and collections

The library wishes to acquire new volumes and restore those in need of restoration to meet all its educational needs by offering books representative of five centuries of European book history. In addition, an ambitious digital library programme is planned to expand access to the heritage and scientific collections as widely as possible beyond the School's own readers. 

Find out how, with the Fondation de l'École Nationale des Chartes - PSL, your support can help promote history and preserve heritage using the most advanced historical methods and digital technologies, opening up new perspectives for the exploration and transmission of the past.

You support students with difficulties, you promote and safeguard the written and cultural heritage, and you contribute to research projects and innovation that provide answers to contemporary human and social science issues. Whatever your level of commitment, you contribute to the general interest of our society.

Thanks to our establishment's reputation and cutting-edge projects, you will enhance your brand image and communication with your stakeholders. You will convey the values of solidarity, sharing, transmission, and French excellence.

You bring meaning to your employees’ daily work and your customers’ purchasing decisions.

Over 80% of consumers approve of companies demonstrating commitment (Edelman Trust Barometer 2017).

Thanks to our collaborative projects with researchers and international institutions and our support for developing countries, you can consolidate your CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) approach both locally and globally. 

Together, we can build a project that meets your and our needs. 

In addition to the projects you choose, various forms of support are available to you:

• Financial sponsorship with a cash donation for scholarships, financing or co-financing a research chair project, acquiring books, etc. or a product-sharing operation.
• Sponsorship in kind, such as equipment for our researchers and students or donating valuable books.
• Skills sponsorship by seconding one of your employees for talents and expertise that we don't have in-house.
• Relay our actions and communication.

Taxation: the foundation is authorised to issue tax receipts

Under Articles 200 and 238 bis of the General French Tax Code, your donation entitles you to a tax reduction.

As a private individual, you can claim a reduction in your income tax equal to 66% of your donation amount, up to a limit of 20% of your taxable income.
If you are liable for the Impôt sur la Fortune Immobilière (IFI-property wealth tax), you will benefit from a reduction in your IFI equal to 75% of the donation amount, up to a limit of €50,000.

Companies can benefit from a tax reduction equal to 60% of the amount of their donation, up to a limit of 0.5% of their annual turnover excluding tax or the €20,000 ceiling.

The excess can be carried forward to the next 5 years if the ceiling is exceeded.

For example, a donation of €10,000, after a 60% tax reduction, will only cost €4,000 in real terms.

For companies donating more than €2 million a year, the tax exemption for the top bracket is 40%.

Please note: donations in kind or skills are also tax-exempt.