Jacques Delors Institute


Notre Europe - Jacques Delors Institute, formerly Notre Europe, is an independent think tank based in Paris. Founded in 1996 by Jacques Delors, it aims to "think a united Europe." Enrico Letta currently serves as president of the Jacques Delors Institute, while Sylvie Matelly is its director.
The Institute was ranked 22nd among the 'Top Think Tanks in Western Europe' in the 2019 Global Go To Think Tank Report of the University of Pennsylvania, making it in third place among think tanks based in France.
The Jacques Delors Institute is part of the Jacques Delors Think Tanks Network, which also includes the Jacques Delors Centre in Berlin and Europe Jacques Delors in Brussels.

Research

The Jacques Delors Institute research is focused around four axes:
  • "Visions of Europe"
  • "European democracy in action"
  • "Competition, cooperation, solidarity"
  • "Europe and world governance"
The Institute regularly produces publications, infographics, and freely accessible webinars. Its publications are essentially produced in-house, but outside researchers and academics are also called on. Work is published in French and English, and occasionally German.
Notable debate contributions by Notre Europe include the organisation of Europe's first transnational deliberative poll, Tomorrow's Europe; a study on the poisonous budget rebate debate; an analysis of the 2005 rejection of the European constitutional treaty; an examination of European think tanks; a blueprint for a new "European social contract"; and a proposal to politicise European debate by linking the choice of European Commission president to European Parliament elections.
For the period 2019-2022, the Jacques Delors Institute participated among 15 consortium partners in the Horizon 2020 research project EU IDEA. Inside the project, it coordinates the Work Package 4, dealing with the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union and the Single Market.

Activities

The activities of the Institute primarily revolve around the following themes:
The Académie Notre Europe is a training facility affiliated with the Jacques Delors Institute. Its purpose is to provide free training and guidance to a selected group of young people in the field of European issues. Founded in 2017, it welcomes a new class of approximately 100 members from all European Union countries to Paris every year. The working language is French, and the training is entirely free.

Governance

The institute's main bodies are the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors. The Members of the Board of Trustees include Jacques Delors, Martine Aubry, Gerhard Cromme, Etienne Davignon, Philippe Lagayette, Pascal Lamy, and António Vitorino.
It is a member of the European Policy Institutes Network and frequently works in partnership with other organisations.

Financing

In 2018, the annual budget of the Jacques Delors Institute stood at 1.39 Million Euros. The biggest individual contributors to the Institute's budget were the European Commission and the French government, making up roughly 50 percent of revenues. Other partners include the companies Macif, Engie, Solvay, Enedis and the Gulbenkian Foundation.
Over the period 2016-2018, project-related contributions to the Institute's budget came, among others, from the European Parliament, the Region Île-de-France, the Caisse des dépôts, France Stratégie the European Climate Foundation and several governments of EU member states.