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BOURBON-MONTPENSIER FOUNDATION

Humanitatis studia, bonum commune — the studies of humanity, the common good

Founding partner of the University

Identity

The Bourbon-Montpensier Foundation is the partner foundation of Saint-Louis – Université Méditerranéenne des Nations, within the Cooperation and Partnerships Division.

It supports the development of the University and of its partnerships — Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe — and conducts, in its own right, a work of intercultural and interreligious dialogue. It places its action in the tradition of the studia humanitatis and in the service of the common good.

Mission

Intercultural dialogue

Bringing together the cultures of Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe through teaching, research and university cooperation.

Interreligious dialogue

Sustaining dialogue between religious traditions, in the spirit of the Fez Declaration (2022) and of the European humanist tradition.

Service of the common good

Working in the tradition of the studia humanitatis: the studies of humanity in the service of the city, of the dignity of persons and of peace.

History and origin

The Bourbon-Montpensier Foundation lies at the origin of the University’s creation in May 1988, together with the Institut Universitaire Montpensier. It took shape between four centres of intellectual exchange — Naples, Marseille, Saint-Louis du Sénégal, Casablanca — and carried, from that year 1988, the project of a university devoted to cooperation between Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe, under its original title of University of the Alliance of Civilizations between Africa, the Mediterranean and Europe. From this project was born Saint-Louis – Université Méditerranéenne des Nations, of which the Foundation remains the founding partner.

Governance

President — Karim El Aalj

Director General — Nasser Michaëlene Gabryel, Vice-Chancellor of the University

Secretary General — Fouad Defaf

Legal direction — Maître Saïd Oud’ghiri

Partnerships

The Foundation works alongside the University and its institutional partners: the INSTITUT DU DROIT INTERNATIONAL AFRICAIN ET DE LA BONNE GOUVERNANCE in Dakar, the ÉCOLE CENTRALE DES LOGICIELS LIBRES ET DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS in Dakar, the University of Baghdad and the Cercle France-Irak.

Cercle France-Irak

Founded in 2019 by Prof. Dr Ala’a Gafouri, the Cercle France-Irak runs with the University the Al-Khawarizmi programme of excellence of the CHOISEUL FACULTY. The Foundation and the Cercle join their efforts in Franco-Iraqi cooperation: intercultural and interreligious dialogue, memory and violent pasts, academic francophonie.

Link with the University

The Foundation sits within the University’s Cooperation and Partnerships Division, which runs the University’s representations in Côte d’Ivoire (Flora Zahi) and in Spain (Rachid Boukhzer), and international cooperation (Nestor Ndoudi).

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Contact

Contact the Bourbon-Montpensier Foundation through the University — the site’s Contact page, in all four languages.

Humanitatis studia, bonum commune
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