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Donor Evening: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Global Power Dynamics

On April 9, 2026, the Fondation de l’École normale supérieure hosted its annual donor evening, attended by Stéphane Israël, President of the Foundation, and Frédéric Worms, Director of ENS-PSL. Following a review of 2025 achievements and a look ahead to 2026, presented by Caroline Guény-Mentré, the evening shifted to a

Honoring yesterday’s women scientists, supporting today’s

On the occasion of International Women’s Day this past March 8, the École Normale Supérieure announced two initiatives aimed at strengthening the representation and recognition of women scientists. This announcement is part of ENS’s “Women and Girls in Science” program, within which the Foundation’s “Women in Science” scholarship serves as

Women and Girls in STEM Month 2026: visible commitments, measurable impact

Year after year, Women and Girls in STEM Month has established itself as a highlight of life at ENS. From mid-February to mid-March 2026, conferences, workshops, roundtables, and cultural events engaged students, researchers, partners, and patrons around a shared goal: taking concrete action to promote greater gender parity in scientific

10 years of the AXA Chair “Geopolitics of Risk”: Rethinking uncertainty in the global era

Ten years after its creation, the AXA Chair “Geopolitics of Risk” brought together, on February 11 in the salle Dussane, its researchers, academic partners, and founding patron for an afternoon of discussions devoted to contemporary transformations of risk. A renewed approach to risk © Frédéric Albert For the past ten

Year-End Donors’ Evening: A Library, Voices, and a Project for the Future

On December 18, 2025, the Fondation de l’ENS and the leadership of the École normale supérieure were pleased to bring together donors and partners for the Foundation’s year-end evening, held in the historic reading room of the Letters Library—an emblematic site of the ENS’s intellectual heritage. An opening focused on

Donor Evening: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Global Power Dynamics

Honoring yesterday’s women scientists, supporting today’s

Women and Girls in STEM Month 2026: visible commitments, measurable impact

10 years of the AXA Chair “Geopolitics of Risk”: Rethinking uncertainty in the global era

Year-End Donors’ Evening: A Library, Voices, and a Project for the Future

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