Our Partners
Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU)
Founded in 2017, the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) aims to ensure the sustainable transformation of the AlUla region and to enhance its natural and cultural heritage by working with local and international experts in archaeology, conservation, heritage preservation, and tourism.
The Royal Commission for AlUla funds the Master 1 Jaussen & Savignac Programme, the doctoral contracts within the Programme, and most of the postdoctoral fellowships. It also provides funding for the Jaussen & Savignac Archaeological Research Center, which brings together several research units from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
French Agency for ALULA Development (AFALULA)
The French Agency’s mission is to support its Saudi partner, the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU), in the transformation of the AlUla region into a worldwide cultural and touristic destination.
Afalula provides funding for the projects Hegra Archaeological Project (HAP) et Archaeozoological of AlUla Project (AZAP), carried out within the Jaussen & Savignac Archaeological Research Center.
CAVILAM – Alliance Française of Vichy
The Centre d’Approches Vivantes des Langues et des Médias (CAVILAM) – Alliance Française in Vichy welcomes welcomes more than 4000 interns and foreign students from over 120 nationalities to learn French while experiencing the French way of life. Saudi students in the Jaussen & Savignac program spend one year learning French at CAVILAM before entering the first year of the Master 1 in Archaeology and Preventive Conservation Jaussen & Savignac.
Other partners
The Jaussen & Savignac Programme supports the development of additional partnerships, presented below:
- Les Routes de l'Orient
- and other partnerships to come
Routes de l'Orient: An inter-university association specialized in the Ancient Near East.
Routes de l’Orient is a non-profit student association whose main goal is to promote research in Near Eastern archaeology through the active participation of students and the support of teachers and researchers. Routes de l’Orient is also interested in other disciplines involved in the study of the Orient, such as epigraphy, anthropology, history, numismatics, and more.
It brings together students from various universities, such as Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sorbonne University, the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE–PSL), the French National Museum of Natural History, and the École du Louvre, and is gradually opening up to other French and international universities.
Website of Routes de l'Orient association
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