IHEDN Endowment Fund

Created in 2010, the IHEDN Endowment Fund aims to support the IHEDN through sponsorship.’Institute of Higher Studies in National Defence (IHEDN) in carrying out its missions of developing a spirit of defence, promoting and disseminating useful knowledge in the field of defence and national security, and raising awareness of international issues.

These missions may include the development of initiatives aimed at different audiences, in particular young people, designed to promote national cohesion, citizenship and the dissemination of the spirit of defence, through symposia, seminars or other events, as well as the conduct of academic research in the fields of defence and national security.

The Fund is also intended to provide financial support for any project that IHEDN wishes to promote as an extension of its missions: events, publications, etc.

Created by Article 140 of Law No. 2008-776 of 4 August 2008 on the modernisation of the economy, the endowment fund is an innovative way of financing philanthropy that combines the advantages of the 1901 association and the foundation.

An endowment fund has legal personality and is made up of an irrevocable allocation of assets to carry out a mission or work of general interest. It collects funds from private sources, which it can either set up as an endowment and use the proceeds, or use to accomplish its mission. It may carry out this mission itself, or fund another public-interest organisation to carry it out.

The endowment fund benefits from the tax regime for sponsorship and gives entitlement to a tax reduction of 60 % of the payments made.