Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED) Scholarships

The Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED) was founded by government ordinance on 24 October 1945. Previously, in 1941, the Vichy government had created the Fondation Française pour l’Etude des Problèmes Humains or “Fondation Alexis Carrel,” headed by, and named after, that French laureate of the Nobel Prize for Medicine. At the Liberation, however, General de Gaulle as head of the provisional government decided to dissolve the Carrel Foundation, considered collaborationist, and to create the Institut National de Démographie, in accordance with the recommendations of Dr Robert Debré. Overseen by the country’s new social ministries, INED was called upon to assemble documentary materials, to run population surveys, to study “the material and moral means that may contribute to the quantitative growth of the population and its qualitative development, and to ensure the dissemination of demographic knowledge.”