The Paris IAS is pleased to share its 2023 activity report with you.

A foreword by the director

2023, a year of major changes for the Institute, which will take full effect in 2024. The Paris IAS has made the transition from a “classic model” of an institute for advanced study, limited to hosting foreign researchers, to a renewed model that integrates these invitations into a collective intelligence platform at the service of the research ecosystem (regional, national and international).
While the majority of our researchers in 2023 continue to be hosted under the European FIAS program organized by the Réseau français des instituts d’études avancées (RFIEA), we have also welcomed several annual chairs funded by our members (Sorbonne University, Paris-Saclay University) and also by the Swedish National Bank.

These programs testify to the interest of major organizations in the IAS’s ability to attract the world’s best researchers. CNRS and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University joined the Institute this year, bringing the total number of prestigious member institutions to 13.

2023 is also the first year of the Ville de Paris-IAS chair, in collaboration with the “Paris Recherche” program, and the launch in September of the one-month writing residency program, whose success has far exceeded our expectations. In 2023, the CAT international program for young researchers, initiated by our institute, became the flagship program of the NETIAS network, which brings together 26 European institutes. 2023 is the year in which the Proceedings of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (PPIAS), a multimedia digital medium for open science, goes into production.

Lastly, the Socioscope project, which uses AI models to study the transition to sustainable development on a large scale using qualitative surveys, has been validated by the Nomis Foundation, and in November 2023 moves from proof of concept to the funded project stage, in collaboration with the Vienna Complexity Science Hub.

At the same time, the Institute continued to host and support events organized by its guest researchers and member institutions (around a hundred in all), developed its fellows’ off-site activities, and welcomed numerous other initiatives, such as the series
“Bien(s) Commun(s): voies d’espoir face aux défis du siècle” (“Common good(s): paths of hope in the face of the century’s challenges”) organized by its President Bettina Laville, as well as the International Panel for Social Progress. Many thanks to the entire staff, members and partners of the Institute for this fine work. As I can’t go into detail here, I warmly invite you to discover this report!

Saadi Lahlou
Director