Universities
INED researchers work with a considerable number of academics through our framing agreements with the following universities:
In this partnership our two institutions :
- jointly run the Graduate school of demography, which provides Masters- and PhD-level training in demography research;
- both participate in the multidisciplinary research network Collaborative Institute on Migration.
INED and Paris 8 are both located on Campus Condorcet, which facilitates our joint organization of scientific events and seminars; we also participate together in research projects and grant proposals. INED is involved in GEMDEV, an inter-university established research group (Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique or GIS) on globalization and development headquartered at Paris 8. GEMDEV’s role is to promote synergies among research centers and teams, Master’s programs, and PhD programs focused on analyzing globalization, Global South countries, notions and realities of development, and development institutions and policies.
INED and the University of Strasbourg began collaborating regularly due to our shared interest in population questions. Specifically, the creation of a Chair of Excellence on population science attractivity has enabled us to work together regularly on surveys conducted in France’s overseas regions and territories and to collaborate on other projects of excellence, such as the Graduate School of Demography (HED, see above) and iPOPs (the “Individuals, Populations, Societies” Laboratory of Excellence or Labex).
iPOPs: a partnership with five leading French universities
The iPOPs Labex is a partnership between INED and five major French universities: Strasbourg, Bordeaux, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Nanterre, and the Université Paris City. The goal of iPOPs is to reinforce student researcher training and the transmission of research expertise.
Further information on this component of our collaborative work.
Major non-university schools
INED and the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) are both located on Campus Condorcet, a situation that has once again facilitated partnership between our two institutions. Our first collaborative projects were to organize a set of lectures around Social and Human Sciences publishing (SHS); we later co-founded the School of Gender and Sexuality Studies » (SGSST). EHESS and INED are jointly involved in important researcher training programs such as Master’s and PhD training in social sciences and demography, programs that often lead students in the direction of doing interdisciplinary research. The move to connect demography methodologies and social theory is at the core of our collaboration with the EHESS and enriches research students’ understanding of contemporary phenomena.
INED and Science Po (Paris Institute of Political Science) collaborate on projects funded by France’s National Research Agency (ANR); our respective researchers and professors co-supervise PhD dissertations, and we contribute jointly to European-level networks. INED researchers regularly teach classes on population sciences and quantitative methods in Science Po Masters programs. Moreover, a long-term partnership has developed through INED’s participation in Science Po’s Project of Excellence TIERED: Transforming Interdisciplinary Education and Research for Evolving Democracies.
Other research organizations and institutions
INED regularly cooperates with :
INED and the CNRS work conjointly on such major research areas as aging and longevity, migration, population dynamics and how to model them. These studies are done in research networks and programs such as the Institute of Longevity, Old Ages and Aging (ILVV), the Collaborative Institute on Migration (Institut Convergence Migrations; see above), and the Plateforme SHS Santé (Human and Social Sciences of Health platform). INED makes use of the CNRS’ RIBAC tool (Collecting Information for an SHS Resarch Activity Observatory) in order to share experience and best practices.
Several projects conducted jointly by INED and the CNRS illustrate the impact of our cooperation.
One such project is Progedo, a national CNRS infrastructure for social science data. Progedo supports the documenting and diffusion of a great number of surveys, including many done by INED, thereby facilitating access to these resources for research and researcher training.
Moreover, our two institutions signed a partnership agreement in 2025 that facilitates access to and training in the use of social and demographic science data.
INED and INSERM share a research team (ajouter lien vers l'unité 14) in an INSERM laboratory, the Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (CESP), which studies areas and phenomena such as sexuality, contraception, abortion, and sexual and reproductive health.
INED also co-runs the Elfe study (French Longitudinal Study of Children), a longitudinal survey of unprecedented scope in France that studies over 18,000 children born in France in 2011 from birth to until they turn 20. The research explores their living conditions, health, schooling, and trajectories. Among other things, this collaborative work with INSERM has enabled INED to analyze a massive set of individual trajectories over a long period of time.
Our partnership with the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development has enabled INED to engage in scientific cooperation projects with Global South countries. For example, our Institute belongs to the Observatoire Population Santé Environnement au Sénégal or OPSE consortium (Observatory of population, health, and environment in Senegal), a grouping of universities, national agencies, and research centers.
It also facilitates INED’s involvement in international fieldwork while supporting research in tune with complex local realities.
Scientific interest networks (GISes)
GISes may conceive and run research studies in population science; their overall purpose is to sustain interdisciplinary research networks. Membership in these established groups offer INED opportunities to explore new fields and assist in structuring collective research in French.
We are particularly involved in the GIS-Institute on Longevity, Old Ages, and Aging (ILVV), which is hosted at INED and headed by an INED researcher. ILVV was created in 2018 and involves a partnership between nine French institutions: the CNAV private-sector employee pension fund and management organization; the CNRS; the CNSA public organization managing aid for dependent older persons; the DREES ministerial service in charge of health and social program statistics; the EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études) research school; INED; INSERM; University Paris Dauphine-PSL; and the University of Lorraine.
Other GISes that INED is a part of:
- the Gender Institute : interdisciplinary research on gender, sexualities, and social relations.
- the CEET (Employment and Labour Research Centre) : studies on workplace experience, occupational trajectories, and age effects.
- CIST : research on French “territories” and regions, spatial dynamics, mobility, regional disparities.
- GEMDEV : promotes synergies among research centers and units, Master’s degree programs, and PhD programs that focus on analyzing globalization, Global South countries, notions and realities of development, and development institutions and policies.
Other partners
INED has a long history of working with INSEE, a central national public statistics actor in the statistical study of social phenomena. Here the partnership is based on the complementarity of our two institutions: INSEE collects and produces data key to demographic analyses (notably censuses and civil register statistics) while INED makes in-depth use of those data, also contextualizing them and putting them into perspective. INED designs population surveys specific to research questions and issues involving phenomena not covered by INSEE surveys.
INED also conducts a number of major surveys jointly with INSEE, most recently
The TeO2 survey, run in 2019-2020, questioned nearly 27,000 persons on their origin(s); migration trajectory; employment, housing, and health situations, experience(s) of discrimination, and other situations or experiences.
The MVF2 Survey, conducted in France’s overseas départements in 2020-2021, explores young people situations, fertility, family ties, migration histories, and intergenerational solidarity in the those departements and regions.
Ministerial statistics departments
INED also shares information and collaborates with a considerable number of ministerial statistics departments in such policy areas as health, social affairs, employment, the interieur, housing, and culture, the aim being to enrich analyses likely to inform and help guide public policymaking.
Collaborations between INED, INSEE, and public statistics departments focus on data, survey methods, and data processing; how to define the phenomena to be analyzed; and diffusing, building upon, and promoting findings.
