Centre de référence sur l’Europe, espace de dialogue et de réflexion

The Robert Schuman Foundation is recognized as an organization of benefit to the public and can receive donations from private individuals and companies. Your support is essential since it helps us to pursue our research activities, to better inform debate on the progress of European policies and to defend Europe's founding values, which are under attack on our borders.

In 2024, your support led to the publication of reference publications on the Union and its institutions, including 40 “Schuman Papers” and the 18th edition of the Schuman Report on Europe, the State of the Union. The latter includes an interview with French President Emmanuel Macron, as well as contributions by Ursula von der Leyen and Roberta Metsola, respectively President of the European Commission and President of the European Parliament, both of whom were re-elected in July 2024.

The Robert Schuman Foundation initiates, enriches and stimulates European debate through the quality of its conferences and events (training courses, seminars). In 2024, almost 50 events were organized by the Foundation, in several EU member states, in Paris and in the provinces, working closely with citizens (Bordeaux, Lyon, Poitiers, Nancy, Strasbourg).

The Foundation's team has developed The Schuman Network: the only platform that aims to coordinate and increase access to studies by European think-tanks, in a bid to promote idea-sharing and stimulate debate. In this way, the network contributes to the development of a public space for European ideas.

In this period of uncertainty and rapidly changing times, we are convinced of the need for closer cooperation between European states. The Foundation team will continue to do its utmost to assist and inspire, in this spirit, our continent's decision-makers responsible for their conduct of public affairs.

Created in 1991 after the fall of the Berlin Wall by a number of renowned European personalities, the Robert Schuman Foundation is recognised as being beneficial to the general interest. It works to promote the construction of Europe. As a reference research centre, the Foundation develops studies on the European Union and its policies and promotes their content in France, Europe and abroad. It provokes, enriches and stimulates European debate through the quality of its research, publications and conferences.