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Vision and Mission
The Eugenie Goldstern Fund for the Study of High Mountain Environments 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, 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 Documentation Center gathering a century of research on this alpine valley of Haute-Maurienne.
The Fund's purpose is to serve a public-interest mission for scientific research on high mountain areas and the preservation of Alpine heritage.
To this end, the Fund acts as both an operator and a distributor, and may in particular:
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Finance, support, and organize conferences, symposia, and publications on these topics
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Develop awareness-raising and training initiatives
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Contribute to the creation of documentation centers on these themes and facilitate access to them
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Support the preservation and maintenance of Alpine heritage sites
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Award grants, scholarships, or subsidies to researchers, students, or institutions working on these topics
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Collaborate with universities, research institutes, and other organizations pursuing similar goals