The Institute of the Americas
The Institute of the Americas (IdA) is a French scientific network created in 2007 and supported by the Department of Higher Education and Research, the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Sorbonne Nouvelle University, the Department of Europe and Foreign Affairs, as well as the Condorcet Campus. The Institute of the Americas federates Humanities and Social Sciences research efforts on the Americas through higher education and research programs structured throughout France. It fosters intellectual exchange at national, European and global levels, in more than twenty disciplines. The institute’s national network is made up of around sixty French higher education and research institutions, spread throughout France, representing more than 1,000 scholars and 250 research teams. The consortium operates in the American hemisphere as well, where it sponsors scientific collaborations in its 12 international poles. The Institute of the Americas promotes different scientific approaches from a comparative, trans-American and transdisciplinary perspective, thus contributing to the emergence of new approaches and the affirmation of French academic and institutional excellence.