In April 2017, IRD set up the new partnerships and development funding mission, which aims to capitalise on experiences, monitor calls for tender, encourage exchanges between scientific and financial networks, consolidate and institutionalise relationships with the foundations, and support governance and researchers towards collecting private funds.
In Montpellier on 21 and 22 September 2017, in partnership with the French Funds and Foundations Centre (CFF), IRD welcomed around 30 foundation managers for the first Foundations-IRD interdisciplinary meetings.