The aim of ENSM Foundation is to collect, manage and allocate resources to finance actions in the Academy’s fields of expertise
With the status of a university foundation, it has no legal personality. It is governed by a management board, which has elected the Foundation’s executive committee and Chairman.
The stakes of the ENSM Foundation
The general interest actions targeted by the foundation are as follows:
1: Enhance the visibility of professions and promote them to young people
- Inspire and support young high school students to embrace a career as a seafarer and/or engineer.
- Encourage the emergence of collaborative projects between students.
- Be part of the policy to develop and promote of the French flag.
- Foster social promotion of occupations in the maritime economy.
2: Encourage social diversity and gender equity
- Support ENSM students by entrusting the Foundation with the payment of scholarships.
3: Support innovative projects to reduce the environmental impact of maritime economy activities
- Develop creativity and entrepreneurship by promoting decarbonisation, reducing greenhouse gases on land and at sea.
- Support research projects and valorise teacher-researchers’ expertise .
- Contribute to reducing environmental impact and strengthening research.
4: Disseminate the training model internationally
- Deploy French know-how internationally, particularly within the French-speaking community.
- Attract foreign talents to serve the maritime economy.
The ENSM foundation is located at ENSM headquarters: 10 quai Frissard, 76600 Le Havre
The strategy of the ENSM Foundation
TWO QUESTIONS FOR THE FOUNDATION
After the launch year of 2023, 2024 was to be the year of consolidation for the Foundation of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Maritime. A strategy was drawn up at the beginning of the year and promoted right up to the annual Armateurs de France evening on 9 April, during which it was presented.
The Foundation relies on its Board of Management, its founders, all its donors and alumni to continue to develop its network and strengthen its support for ENSM through a redesigned action plan based on the 4 statutory priorities: the attractiveness of the merchant navy and maritime engineering professions, social promotion, research and development, and international development.
WHAT IS A FOUNDATION FOR?
The Foundation’s two missions, as defined by the Board of Management, are to :
– the financing of actions identified within a planned and promoted framework for beneficiaries
– incubate innovative projects with the potential to generate new income.
A FOUNDATION FOR WHAT CONCRETE ACTIONS?
These actions must meet precise specifications and promote the ENSM brand. Supporting a crew during sporting events to transform passions into professional vocations, setting up promotional crews to reach out to schoolchildren, building and developing an online boutique: boutique.supmaritime.fr, encouraging support for students during travel or setting up the climate fresco, have all been identified by the Management Board as initial actions by the Management Board as initial initiatives. A system of calls for projects has been put in place, which is sufficiently demanding to ensure that they meet precise specifications combining sustainable development, social promotion and visibility.
The aim of these projects is to provide additional funding for the School, thereby fulfilling the Foundation’s incubation role. The target is €1.5m per year by 2026. Shipowners are kept informed of the Foundation’s activities via a dedicated channel and at a half-yearly review meeting, which includes the pilots of the various major projects. A commitment has been made to promote donors through dedicated communications. Our ambition is therefore to put in place a system that will enable donations to be recycled in order to consolidate the funds raised and focus the Foundation’s actions on implementing its strategy. The automated system for issuing tax receipts via the supmaritime.fr website is helping us to collect further donations from the general public.
Support ENSM Foundation
Support the ENSM Foundation
The success of the Foundation, which is supported by professionals, alumni and students’ families, is based on the fact that part of the donation is tax deductible. Depending on your tax situation, €100 donated to ENSM Foundation in September 2023 will only cost you €25, €44 or €40, since tax reductions at that date are:
- 75% of property wealth tax (IFI)
- 66% on income tax (impôt sur le revenu – IR)
- 60% of corporation tax (IS)
ENSM Foundation may also receive property bequests, which entitle the donor to a reduction in income tax of up to 66% of the value of the donation and up to a limit of 20% of net taxable income. Any surplus can be carried forward for up to five years, or a reduction in property wealth tax of 75% of the value of the gift, up to a maximum of €50,000. In the latter case, the surplus cannot be carried forward to subsequent years.
Make a Donation
To support the ENSM Foundation, you can make a donation by filling out the “Donation Pledge” form and selecting the following payment method:
Upon receipt of your payment, we will send your tax receipt, to benefit from the tax reduction to which you are entitled .