The Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe is an organisation which supports initiatives dedicated to the construction of Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

an unity. The foundation is inspired by the thinking, methods and actions of Jean Monnet

Jean Monnet

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity and is regarded as one of its founding fathers...

. The origins of the foundation go back to a meeting between Jean Monnet and Henri Rieben in 1955 and it is located at the Dorigny Farm, in the heart of the University of Lausanne

University of Lausanne

The University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 12,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university...

 in Lausanne

Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

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Archives

The foundation houses the personal archives of Jean Monnet

Jean Monnet

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French political economist and diplomat. He is regarded by many as a chief architect of European Unity and is regarded as one of its founding fathers...

, Robert Schuman

Robert Schuman

Robert Schuman was a noted Luxembourgish-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat and an independent political thinker and activist...

, Robert Marjolin

Robert Marjolin

Robert Marjolin was a French economist and politician involved in the formation of the European Economic Community.-Early life and education:...

, François Fontaine, Jacques Van Helmont, Paolo Emilio Taviani

Paolo Emilio Taviani

Paolo Emilio Taviani was an Italian political leader, economist and historian of the career of Christopher Columbus....

, Robert Triffin

Robert Triffin

Robert Triffin was a Belgian economist best known for his critique of the Bretton Woods system of fixed currency exchange rates. His critique became known later as Triffin's dilemma.Triffin received his doctorate degree from Harvard University in 1938 and taught there from 1939 until 1942...

, and the Earl of Perth

Earl of Perth

The title Earl of Perth was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1605 for James Drummond, 4th Lord Drummond.The Drummond family claim descent from Maurice, son of George, a younger son of King Andrew I of Hungary...

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