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Vision and Mission

The Eugenie Goldstern Fund for disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific research on the mountains as well as the promotion and preservation of the Alpine heritage  aims to support an international center of scientific, cultural, and heritage-based excellence dedicated to understanding Alpine territories in all their complexity, richness, and vulnerability.

The Fund claims the intellectual and emotional legacy of Eugenie Goldstern, a pioneer of an ethnology that was attentive, rigorous, and deeply human.

In the face of major ecological and climate upheavals that are reshaping the balance of these fragile ecosystems, the Fund promotes a resolutely interdisciplinary approach, drawing on the human sciences, environmental sciences, architecture, history and geography, art, and living memory.

The Fund thus seeks to foster synergies between researchers, institutions, residents, cultural actors, and decision-makers, in order to collectively reflect on, bear witness to, transmit, and imagine the future of high mountain territories.

The Fund supports the Maison Finette project in Bessans (73) as a preserved and exceptional testimony to Eugenie Goldstern's passage, and as part of the creation of a multidisciplinary Documentation Center gathering a century of research on this alpine valley of Haute-Maurienne.

The Fund's purpose is to carry out a mission of general interest dedicated to disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific research on the mountains, as well as the promotion and preservation of Alpine heritage.

To this end, the Fund will act both as an operator and a distributor, and may in particular:

  • Fund, support, and organize conferences, symposiums, exhibitions, and publications on these topics

  • Implement awareness-raising and training initiatives

  • Contribute to the creation of documentary collections on these topics and facilitate access to them

  • Participate in the funding of preservation and maintenance work related to Alpine heritage

  • Grant scholarships, financial aid, or subsidies to researchers, students, or institutions working on these topics

  • Collaborate with universities, research institutes, museums, collections, archive centers, learned societies, and other organizations pursuing similar goals