The Julien Gracq Library is a research library in Human Sciences. The service is shared by the House of Human Sciences and the IAS-Nantes.

This library is a partner of the documentary network of the University of Nantes and of SUDOC, the French University Libraries Network System.

The collections of the Julien Gracq library consists essentially of the initial collection of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, of a selection of landmark works in the field of Humanities and of copies of each former Fellows’ books.

The French Development Agency finances, supports and facilitates the transition towards a more just and sustainable world. Climate, biodiversity, peace, education, urbanism, health, governance… : The AFD teams are engaged in over 4000 projects in the French Overseas Territories and in 115 countries. By doing so, they contribute to implement the engagements of France and of the French people in favour of the Substainable Development Objectives (ODD).  

Since December 2013, The Nantes Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Fribourg launched a new collaboration, with a support from Swiss federal Government (State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation - SERI). It aims at promoting research projects on societies’ institutional framework (law, language, religion), on the concept of humanities and its role in the scientific landscape, and on interdisciplinary research in Social Sciences and Humanities. This partnership includes a series of lectures and workshops as well as promoting IAS-Nantes fellowships among Swiss scholars.

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Since 2013 the Institute collaborates with the Festival des 3 continents (Cinemas from Africa, Latin America and Asia).

During the Festival the workshop ’Produire au Sud’, which is organised by the Festival each year, is hosted at the Institute. Produire au Sud is a workshop focusing on the outline and structure of coproduction within the film industry. The workshop aims to familiarize young producers based in Africa, Latin America, and Asia with a variety of important tools and international coproduction techniques by coaching individual projects in development.

The Agence d’urbanisme de la région nantaise (Auran) is an associative structure created in 1978 which produces analyses, deciphers trends, updates data for local authorities and helps develop public policies. It is a partnership tool to help elected officials make decisions and a resource for understanding and remembering territories. The Auran and the Nantes IAS have been working together since the winter of 22-23 through the creation of a Chair dedicated to the transitions of the city and its territories.

> https://www.auran.org/

As part of the run-up to the Centenary of the ILO, the Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes and the ILO have joined efforts to organize a series of roundtables centered on the theme of “The Humanization of Labour since 1919”. The 2010 partnership agreement envisaged four roundtables which would each bring together a select group of scholars representing very different cultures and approaches, with the aim of furthering and improving the study of the humanization of labour since 1919. The first roundtable exploring “The Meaning of Work” took place in Nantes in 2011. The second took place in Berlin in 2012, in collaboration with the IGK Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History (Re : work) of the Humboldt University on the theme “Safety at Work and Job Security”. Next meetings will address the questions of "the image of work" and "time and rythms of work".

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The Indian-European Advanced Research Network - IEARN - is an informal network of research institutions based in Europe and in India, whose purpose is to foster research where the cooperation between European and Indian scholars arises through common interests and sense of shared predicaments.

IAS-Nantes has participated in the network since 2009, and became the administrator of IEARN in 2013.

> iearn.iea-nantes.fr

The French Network of Institute for Advanced Studies was officially created in March 2007, as public-benefit foundation for scientific cooperation. In a context in which research is undergoing profound change, France made the decision to set up Institutes for Advanced Study (IAS) – institutions that have proved themselves in North America and Europe – and opted to link up in a network the four newly created institutes located in several French cities: the Collegium de Lyon and the Institutes for Advanced Study of Nantes, Aix-Marseille and Paris.

In 2012, the RFIEA was selected to be an ‘Excellence lab’, with the aim to strengthen its member Institutes.

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Created in 2004, the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Study (NetIAS) is an informal network for exchange and dialogues that gathers 17 European Institutes for Advanced Study (from Norway to Romania, Sweden to Italy, Finland to Israel). Among others, members are the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Study in Uppsala, the Institute for Advanced Study in Jerusalem and the Collegium Budapest. IAS-Nantes is a Member of this network.

The SIAS consortium (Some Institutes for Advanced Study), which brings together the best Institutes for Advanced Study in the World (Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, North Carolina, Berlin, Uppsala, Wassenaar, Jerusalem and Stellenbosch) invited the 24th June 2015 the IAS-Nantes to become a member, thus giving it the highest possible distinction. This International consecration opens doors for the IAS-Nantes to new strategic collaborations which will benefit the local, regional and national scientific community.

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Since 2012, the IAS-Nantes and the Fayard publishing house have been collaborating on the "Poids et Mesures du Monde" collection. This collection is open to authors from all continents, who have in common the fact that they consider the diversity of systems of thought not as a remnant of irrationality in a world destined to become uniform, transparent and manageable, but as an indispensable support for the institution of reason in a world destined to remain diverse and unpredictable.

Already published in the collection "Poids et Mesures du Monde" :

> La Cité du travail : Le fordisme et la gauche, by Bruno Trentin.

Foreword by Jacques Delors. Translated from the Italian by Jérôme Nicolas. Ed. Fayard, coll ’Poids et mesures du monde’, in partnership with the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study, under the direction of Alain Supiot, 2012.