Support Alliance
Gifts to Alliance support international collaboration through student grants, academic programs and research projects between Columbia University, École Polytechnique, Sciences Po and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
All contributions made to Alliance are U.S. tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
Your support for 26/27
This year, Alliance is proposing an ambitious series of catalyst seminars, events, and widening support to the research of faculty and PhD students alike. Your support will help us:
- provide travel and accomodation for speakers for:
- the catalyst seminar on AI for Life, surrounding the advances of AI in the Public Health sphere (in partnership with CUMC)
- Part 2 of the AI and Education Event (find out more on Part 1 held at Columbia in March 2026 here) which be held in Paris
- with the organisation of the AI Entrepreneurship Challenge, where teams of students and recent graduates from all four partner institutions will be invited to submit entrepreneurship proposals that leverage AI in their conception, development, or execution.
- fund signficant faculty research such as:
- "Educating for Democracy: A Randomized Evaluation of Media Literacy and Civic Education Among Youth"
- "Tri-Modal Size and Strain-Rate Effects in 3D-Printed Polymer Architected Materials: From Nano to Macro-Scale"
- and many more
- assist students with their PhD research on varied topics such as:
- “The Digital Double: A Comparative Study in the E.U. and the U.S. Law”
- “Unique Multiples: The Liquidity of Modernism in Art’s Secondary Market”
Who supports Alliance?
The original funding for Alliance came from an endowment established at Columbia in 2008 by the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Region Île-de-France, and the four partner universities. Today, it includes:
» French Ministry for Higher Education
» Conseil Regional Île-de-France
» French Ministry for Foreign Affairs
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