International partnerships

INED is engaged in active partnerships abroad related to our research areas and scientific orientations. These partnerships may involve research, teaching and training, or diffusion and promotion of scientific work in the form of

• conducting joint research programs,
• hosting researchers and doctoral students and organizing researcher and student exchanges,
• joint teaching and student supervision. 

In 2025, 30 framing agreements between INED and institutions in 25 different countries were in effect.

Depuis Since its founding in 2005, the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) has offered a top-level itinerant training program for PhD students in demography.

The school was created on the initiative of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) and is supported by five research centers including INED and twelve European universities. The EDSD program takes place in a different country every two years. INED hosted the School from 2007 to 2009 and is doing so again, on Campus Condorcet, for the 2023-2026 academic years. Approximately 20 selected students receive 11 months of top-level training that covers the causes and consequences of demographic change, demographic data, demographic statistics and math, as well as modeling, simulation, and forecasting. 

INED is heavily involved in international demographer association activities and international research networks. Two of the world’s main demographer organizations—the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) and the International Association of French-language Demographers (AIDELF)—are headquartered at the Institute.

International demographer associations 

Many INED researchers are active members of the world’s main demographer associations: 

• UIESP (International Union for the Scientific Study of Population)

• PAA (Population Association of America)

• EAPS (European Association for Population Studies)

• AIDELF (International Association of French-language Demographers)

Population research societies and networks

• SLLS (Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Study): founded in 2009, brings together member researchers with a shared interest in the specified subjects working in a variety of disciplines ranging from behavioral to social sciences. 
   

• ESPE (European Society for Population Economics): founded in 1986 to facilitate exchanges between researchers in Europe and throughout the world studying economic questions as they pertain to population and demographic developments. Members focus on the economic aspects and implications of topics such as gender; aging, health insurance, and retirement pensions; intergenerational income redistribution, social housing, and age group developments and effects, to name a few. 
   

• REVES (International Research Network on Healthy Life Expectancy [the French word “rêves” means “dreams”]: brings together researchers from over 150 universities across the world who assess the impact of longer life expectancy on population health, thereby contributing to public health-centered debates on future health care needs. This network, created in 1989 with the support of INSERM, the Québec Social Affairs Council, and Duke University, works specifically on harmonizing data and calculation methods, which vary across countries, thereby significantly facilitating and improving international comparative research. 
   

• IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration, and Social Cohesion): supports and organizes a wide range of research activities on migration and integration, as well as doing training and communication work aimed at a non-academic audience. INED is a founding member of this research network, which developed out of a Network of Excellence funded by the European Commission’s 6th Research Framework Program (RFP).