The ENSM Foundation

The ENSM Foundation aims to collect, manage, and allocate resources intended to finance actions in the specialty areas of the School

Under the status of a university foundation, it does not have legal personality. It is administered by a management board, which has elected the office and the President of the 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 sailor, engineer.
• Encourage the emergence of collaborative projects among students.
• Integrate into the policy of development and promotion of the French flag.
• Promote the social advancement of maritime economy professions.

2: Encourage social diversity and gender equity

• Support ENSM students by entrusting the foundation with the disbursement of scholarships.

3: Support innovative projects that reduce the environmental impact of maritime economy activities

• Develop creativity and entrepreneurship by promoting decarbonization, reducing greenhouse gases on land and at sea.
• Support research projects and enhance the expertise of teacher-researchers.
• Participate in reducing environmental impact and strengthen research.

4: Disseminate the training model internationally

• Deploy French expertise internationally, particularly within the Francophone space.
• Attract foreign talents to serve the maritime economy.

The ENSM foundation is located at the ENSM headquarters: 10 quai Frissard, 76600 Le Havre

All decisions of the Foundation’s Management Board are subject to the ENSM Board of Directors. The management board has established the 2023 action plan, approved by the school’s board of directors.

This plan finds its legitimacy in its four statutory axes, the declaration of the President of the Republic on the number of ENSM graduates, the conclusions of the Fontenoy du maritime, and exchanges with Armateurs de France.

In 2023, the plan includes significant actions to increase the number of registrations in 2024 and launch the Foundation.

Axis 1: Enhance the visibility of professions and promote them to young people

• The 2023 Transat Jacques Vabre started from Le Havre in October: Thanks to the Foundation, François Champion, a teacher at ENSM, and Basile Buisson, a former student, merchant marine officer, and winner of the Virtuel Reggata, will race under the colors of the School.
• Online promotion campaigns and media support the presence of students at fairs, open days, and the launch of ENSM’s new website.
• Creation of an ENSM online store

Axis 2: Promote social advancement and diversity

• The flagship project for 2023 is the creation of promotional crews with alumni, students, teachers, and companies in mainland and overseas France, to organize interventions in middle and high schools.

Axis 3: Participate in reducing environmental impact

• Led by Caroline Pons, a teacher at the ENSM site in Marseille, the Hydro-Challenge is an international competition of environmentally low-impact ship models, open to students from maritime academies worldwide, starting in 2025.
• The Climate Mural project will be implemented at a first site this year.

Axis 4: Disseminate the training model internationally

• Rely on alumni and companies to recreate the link and promote registrations at ENSM in 2024 in the best high schools in Francophone Africa.
• Participate in the SAPEF fair in Yaoundé and Douala, organized by the French Institute, Campus France, and the French Embassy in Cameroon, in October.

Participate in the SAPEF fair in Yaoundé and Douala, organized by the French Institute, Campus France, and the French Embassy in Cameroon, in October.

The Foundation is supported by professionals, alumni, and students’ families, whose success relies on the tax deduction of part of the donation. Indeed, depending on the tax concerned, 100€ given to the ENSM Foundation in September 2023, costs only 25€, 44€, or 40€, since the tax reductions at that date are:

• 75% of the wealth tax on real estate (IFI)
• 66% of the income tax (IR)
• 60% of the corporate tax (IS)

The ENSM Foundation can also receive real estate bequests, which are entitled to a reduction in income tax amounting to 66% of the value of the donation and within the limit of 20% of the taxable net income. In case of excess, carryover is possible over five years or a reduction of the wealth tax on real estate up to 75% of the value of the donation and within the limit of 50,000 euros. In this second case, there is no carryover of the excess to subsequent years.

To support the ENSM Foundation, you can make a donation by filling out the “Donation Promise to Fill” form and then selecting the following payment method:

• Bank transfer: Download the ENSM’s RIB

Upon receipt of your payment, we will send you your tax receipt, to benefit from the tax reduction you are entitled to.

If you wish to follow the activity of the Foundation, you can subscribe to its newsletter by clicking HERE.

The Foundation is governed by articles L.719-12 and R.719-194 to R.719-205 of the Education Code and the decree n° 2010-1129 of September 28, 2010, as amended, creating the ENSM.

Contact

ENSM Foundation Mission Officer: Gaëlle Hardy – gaelle.hardy@supmaritime.fr

fondation.ensm@supmaritime.fr