Organization

IMERA was founded in 2007 as a non-profit organisation (Association Loi 1901) by the then three universities of Aix-Marseille and the CNRS (French National Research Agency).

It was transformed into an Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) foundation on 1st January 2013.

IMERA's public and private founding members are:

• Aix-Marseille University (AMU),
• the French National Research Agency (CNRS),
• the French National Institute for Health & Medical Research (Inserm),
• the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD),
• the Higher School of Social Science (EHESS),
• NCC PARTNERS,
• Sciences Po Aix