Patrons' wall

The Culture & Diversity Foundation, chaired by Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, has been a partner of the École du Louvre's "Equal Opportunity" program since 2006, born of the desire to democratize access to museum and heritage professions.

• Schoolchildren's awareness of heritage and preparation for the entrance exam to the École du Louvre
  Scholarship students who have chosen the "History of the Arts" option are supported throughout their three years of high school, to give them every chance of entering the École du Louvre. They benefit from information on the professions, meetings with professionals, and visits to several major heritage sites guided by École du Louvre students. The most motivated high school students are then selected to take part in the "Equal Opportunity" course, intensive preparation for the entrance exam to the École.

   

• Accompaniment of students admitted to the École du Louvre, tutoring and housing assistance
  Students in the program admitted to the École are tutored, art history books are loaned to them, and scholarship students from the regions benefit from housing in partner hostels of the Fondation Culture & Diversité.

Collector, scholar and a key figure in the art world, Jacques Malatier (1926-2017) amassed an exceptional collection over thirty years, which was dispersed in 2017 for the benefit of La Fondation de France, which created a Foundation bearing his name from within its ranks.

The Foundation's mission is to restore and refurbish the Château de Versailles and the Château de Chambord, award scholarships to French students designated by the Foundation's Executive Committee, and finance scholarly publications in art, history and science, in conjunction with the CNRS and CNL.

The Fondation Malatier-Jacquet has been a patron of the École du Louvre since 2019, as part of the development of international mobility initiatives, and for three years has offered five scholarships (5,000 euros) enabling selected students to finance a study and research stay or internship abroad.

Given the proven usefulness of these scholarships, the Foundation has decided to renew its support for three years, and to double the number of scholarships, which will number ten from the 2022-2023 academic year.

The Académie des beaux-arts is one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France otherwise made up of the Académie française, the Académie des Sciences, the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques. Its mission is to "Contribute to the defense and illustration of France's artistic heritage, as well as to its development, while respecting the pluralism of expression".

In order to fulfill its mission of supporting creation, the Académie des beaux-arts pursues a patronage policy in a variety of forms in France and abroad: awarding numerous prizes to new and established artists, organizing competitions, financing artistic residencies, and granting aid to artistic projects, events or associations. It also maintains an active policy of partnerships with a large network of cultural institutions and patrons.

Sensitive to the École du Louvre's actions in favor of equal opportunity, such as the opening of the Student House and the introduction of living scholarships, and in response to the expression of a growing need for financial support for the youngest and most fragile students, the Académie des beaux-arts offered its support to provide 10 living scholarships, notably to first-year students hosted at the Student House, for the 2022-2023 academic year and is renewing this support for the 2023-2024 year.

La France Mutualiste is a mutual insurance and savings consultancy group that has developed from the outset around servicemen and women, their families and loved ones. Created in 2012, its corporate foundation's mission is to support and develop actions linked to the preservation and transmission of memory, more particularly aimed at younger generations "so that everyone can look forward to tomorrow without forgetting yesterday".

It is in this capacity that the Fondation d'entreprise La France Mutualiste has become a patron of the École du Louvre, via its Endowment Fund, with the launch of 3 annual scholarships (2020, 2021 and 2022) aimed at students studying military heritage and archaeology in undergraduate or postgraduate courses. Indeed, the École du Louvre has been the only French higher education institution to offer a complete, degree-granting course on the subject since 1980, a curriculum also open to free auditors.

The first winners of the 3 Fondation d'entreprise La France Mutualiste life scholarships were selected, based on academic and social criteria, in September 2020.

The Fondation La France Mutualiste has decided to continue its support of the École du Louvre by once again offering 3 scholarships a year to undergraduate or graduate students studying heritage and military archaeology, until 2026.

The Gandur Foundation for Art was created in 2010 by Jean-Claude Gandur to make his internationally renowned collections accessible to a wide audience. Based in Geneva (Switzerland) and recognized as a public utility, the Foundation is dedicated to preserving, documenting, enriching and exhibiting its collections in renowned institutions in Switzerland and abroad.

The Foundation also supports higher education and research in art history and museology, through scholarships for Masters or PhDs for talented students whose research themes overlap with the works in the collection.

In 2021, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art has decided to support young art history researchers at the École du Louvre by offering 4 scholarships for 4 selected students in their first year of graduate studies (M1), all courses combined.

These scholarships will be extended to the same students for their second year of graduate studies (M2).

In 2023, the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art has decided to renew this sponsorship and is now offering 5 scholarships (5,000 euros) to graduate students, designed to follow them for 2 years. A fund reserved for emergency aid has also been set up for the most precarious students in need of one-off assistance.

Created in 1975 by Simone Del Duca as a tribute to her husband, patron of the arts and major newspaper publisher, the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation, has been housed at the Institut de France since 2005. Its aim is to promote the arts, letters and sciences in France and abroad.

In 2022, the Foundation has chosen the École du Louvre to provide scholarship support for 3 students specializing in the History of Cinema. The aim of these scholarships is to enable students with limited financial resources to devote themselves to their studies in a very specific field, with complete peace of mind.

Named Per Fumum after the perfumes that leave their wake when they evaporate, the Fonds de Dotation Per Fumum, created in 2019 by Francis Kurkdjian, was born of his sincere desire to turn the heritage of perfume into a footprint, a heritage and a support to see far ahead and get moving. Thus, the Per Fumum Endowment Fund's purpose in France and abroad is to preserve and enhance France's tangible and intangible olfactory heritage, to support and promote contemporary artistic creation in connection with perfume, to organize and support educational and social actions in connection with perfume, in particular for the benefit of underprivileged audiences or those with little exposure, and finally to organize and support scientific research related to perfume and the sense of smell.

It is in this context, that the Per Fumum Endowment Fund has decided to support a doctoral research grant focusing on perfumery to a postgraduate student at the Ecole du Louvre.