A French IAS: Collegium de Lyon
The Collegium de Lyon: A French Institute for Advanced Studies is the subject of the presentation of the institution's president, Olivier Faron, on May 10, at 2 pm, at IEA's Event Room. Organized with the support of the French Embassy, the meeting will be held in French with simultaneous translation and broadcast live over the web.
The Collegium is the seat of the Réseau Français des Instituts d'Études Avancees (RFIEA), created in 2006 by the French government and that counts with three other institutions: Institut Meditérranéen de Recherches Avancées (IMéRA), the Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes (IEA Nantes) and the Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris (IEA Paris). Such as the IEA-USP, RFIEA also integrates the network Ubias (University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study).
International interdisciplinarity
According to Faron, the Collegium tends to respect two main dimensions: a complete international openness and the search for an active interdisciplinarity. ‘The Collegium wants to be an independent research center and a place of great freedom for a community of teachers and high-level researchers, who have the possibility of getting rid of the contingencies related to the responsibilities of teaching and/or administration in order to favor their own scientific activities for a time of 5 to 10 months’.
With 15 to 20 annual, the Collegium is an attractive tool in the panorama of the French higher education and research. ‘It is a device that begins to bear scientific pioneering results’.
Lecturer
Olivier Faron is President of the directing association of the Collegium de Lyon. From June 2011 to April 2012, he was Higher Education Deputy Director of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of France and directed the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon from 2010 to 2011. He is the author of several books, including 'La Ville des Destins Croisés — Recherches sur la Société Milanaise du 19ème Siècle' (1997) and 'Les Enfants du Deuil — Orphelins et Pupilles de la Nation de la Première Guerre Mondiale' (2001). Faron received the titles of Knight of the Légion d'Honneur and the Palmes Académiques, both state decorations in France.
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