Our projects
Education
L'Inalco has aprofessional training offer in languages and civilizations that is as rich and recognized in France as it is internationally, 106 languages and civilizations are taught there, divided into several professional streams.
Inalco provides the 9000 or so students at the school with a high-level education, supported by research and focused on professional integration.
FOCUS - The Mooré MOOC
Thanks to support from the Foundation, Inalco has strengthened its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) offering by adding Mooré to the courses on offer. Belonging to the Niger-Congolese language family and more specifically to the Gur language group, this language is spoken by the Mossis, the majority ethnic group in Burkina Faso. This language is present in the central regions of Burkina Faso, but also in parts of Mali and Ghana, where Mossi communities can be found.
Launched in 2017, MOOCs are free courses available online free of charge over a limited period ranging from six to seven weeks. This offering is fully in line with innovation, the renewal of teaching practices, and didactic reflection in higher education.
OTHER PROJECTS EDUCATION
Research
Inalco teaches and conducts research on the languages of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the peoples of America, as well as on the geography, history, institutions, political, economic and social life of the countries concerned united under the term areal studies.
In addition, its scientific heritage and a reservoir of expertise on an exceptional number of languages fuel a reputed research activity in the field of language sciences.
With an academic community of 1250 teachers and teacher-researchers, research is supported by 14 research laboratories, some of which are under cotutorship with research organizations including the CNRS.
FOCUS - The Buddhist Studies Chair
In 2021, Inalco inaugurated a professorial chair dedicated to studies of Buddhism in the modern and contemporary Chinese world, with Professor Ji Zhe, a specialist in the sociology of religion in modern and contemporary China at IFRAE (Institut Français de Recherche sur l'Asie de l'Est) and Inalco's Chinese Studies Department, as well as co-founder and director of CEIB (Centre d'Etudes Interdisciplinaires sur le Bouddhisme). In 2023, the Inalco Foundation was honored to sign a new partnership with the GS Charity Foundation Limited, adding to existing partnerships with the Tzu Chi Foundation and the Sheng Yen Education Foundation, to promote Buddhist studies at Inalco and fund the activities of the Chair and CEIB.
Society
In a constantly redefining global environment, Inalco proposes to provide society with tools for autonomous analysis and decision-making, to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and to the animation of French and European places in its fields of expertise.
Inalco's Mission is consubstantial with the plurality of opinions and convictions associated with scientific impartiality, the safeguarding of knowledge and people, the dialogue of cultures, and equality in law and opportunity.
FOCUS - Welcoming students in exile
L'Inalco has set up the Diplôme Universitaire Passerelle, which aims for a two-year period to accommodate exiled students. As part of the Urgence Afghanistan campaign, the Foundation awarded scholarships enabling three Afghan students to join the DU Passerelle.
I am happy to share with you my experience of being in France during this period. I started the second semester of DU Passerelle from January 2022 to improve my level of the French language. In addition, I was able to enroll in the Hospitalité, Médiations, Migrations university diploma at Inalco University for the 2022-2023 academic year and successfully complete it. In addition, from July 2022 to the end of April 2023, I did civic service with the association "Pour une planète sans frontière" and also, from February to the end of April 2023, I did an internship in the form of a DU H2M at the Cimade association as an intercultural mediator. For the 2023-2024 academic year, I've applied for a master's degree at Inalco University in International Relations, and I'm waiting for the result.
Testimony of Tahmina, beneficiary of the "Urgence Afghanistan" campaign
