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Académie des Futurs Leaders
Founded by Alice Barbe, the Academy of Future Leaders is an immersive training program for those committed to environmental and social justice causes, eager to embody a new political generation: inspiring, empathetic, and guided by progressive values.
Intended for individuals who desire to enter politics as a new generation of politicians guided by progressive values, the program provides the tools necessary for transforming social involvement into political influence. It offers participants a platform for political engagement and assists them in forming alliances, creating strategies, and projecting themselves politically.
The six-month training program begins in January of any given year. It takes place at Reid Hall three days a week and benefits from the engagement of more than 100 volunteer speakers. Seven skill sets form the core of its educational mission:
- Understanding the fundamentals in Political Science
- Preparing for the European elections in 2024
- Examining new issues in Democracy
- Comprehending the great global challenges ahead
- Learning how to campaign and win
- Maintaining well-being and mental health
- Mastering one's political discourse
Listen to "Atelier" podcast with Alice Barbe
Arts Arena
The Arts Arena, which hosts many of its events in partnership with the Paris Center, is a multidisciplinary non-profit initiative in the visual and performing arts, film, and issues of culture and society. Since its founding in 2007, it has presented almost 400 cultural events to strengthen connections among artistic disciplines and between the arts and the worlds of business, economics, finance, cultural diplomacy, sciences, technology, and sustainable development. A founding principle of the Arts Arena is to make these encounters with the arts and leading artists available to the broadest possible audience. To that end, all performances, film screenings, exhibitions, festivals, lectures, and conversations are free of charge and open to the public.
CNLB
The role of the CNLB is to preserve, enhance and share the musical heritage of both Nadia and Lili Boulanger. Nadia Boulanger was a guest of honor at 4 rue de Chevreuse on numerous occasions and held workshops for music students both at Reid Hall and in her home. The Paris Center has partnered with the CNLB to extend Nadia and Lili’s legacies to contemporary music lovers and performers.
DART Centre Europe
Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma is a resource center and global network of journalists, journalism educators, and health professionals dedicated to improving media coverage of trauma, conflict, and tragedy.
Dart Centre Europe is a regional hub for journalists and filmmakers who believe that effective reporting on violence and trauma matters. With staff in the UK and Berlin and volunteer networks of journalists, educators, researchers and clinicians throughout Europe and beyond, DCE works to promote discussion, develop training, and exchange specialist knowledge on the most challenging of media issues. DCE works closely with the Dart Center for Trauma and Journalism based at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.
The partnership with CGC | Paris includes raising awareness around journalism and trauma through a series of public talks and panels on trauma, conflict, and violence in journalism, workshops and training for journalists and journalism students at all levels of experience, and cultivating partnership with local partners.
The work of Dart Centre Europe will be featured in the podcast series produced by CGC | Paris.
Displaced Artist Initiatives
Co-sponsored by Columbia Global Centers | Paris and the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, the Displaced Artist Initiatives are designed to support artists who have had to leave their countries of origin due to extreme circumstances (war, natural disaster, political oppression).
Listen to the "Atelier" podcast with Anna Stavychenko
Forbidden Stories
Founded in 2017, Forbidden Stories is a global network of journalists whose mission is to protect, pursue, and publish the work of other journalists facing threats, prison, or murder. It is the only existing program with this mission, with the message that killing the journalist won’t kill the story.
The Paris Center hosts a series of public events about their investigations and is currently developing a capacity-building program for journalists around questions of collaborative journalism.
Génération Leaders
Génération Leaders is part of the Assa Traoré Endowment Fund, whose goal is to advance the cause of equality, not in words, speeches or political intentions, but on the ground, in our lives, in training courses, and in the history we decide to build together. Launched in 2022, this six-month training program attracts those who are determined to make their dreams of justice and equality come true through personal and collective projects.
The Paris Center facilitates their capacity-building programs as well as their social and cultural outreach.
Le Monde in English
Le Monde is France’s leading newspaper. It has provided news coverage, unique perspectives and in-depth analysis to francophones all around the world since 1944. Le Monde in English, founded in 2022, brings the best of our award-winning journalism from France, Europe and all around the world, to anglophones.
The Paris Center has hosted several events both in Paris and in New York, inviting Le Monde journalists to speak on some of the most critical questions facing journalists and journalism today, particularly in an international context.
Maison des Femmes
The Maison des Femmes in Saint-Denis is a resource for women in situations of precarity and violence. Attached to the Delafontaine hospital, it offers local multidisciplinary care. Founded in 2016 by Dr. Ghada Hatem, the non-profit aims to provide concrete and comprehensive help to women in difficulty in Seine-Saint-Denis. The Maison also works in the fields of prevention, education and public health.
The Paris Center hosts some of their training workshops and public events.
Narrative Medicine
Born in 2001 at Columbia University, Narrative Medicine is a field at the intersection of medicine, literary studies, philosophy, and ethics. Over the past two decades Narrative Medicine has grown to touch many aspects of healthcare around the world. In recent years, raining courses – centered on the multi-step practices of close reading, creative writing, and text sharing – have been integrated into more than eight healthcare specialties, many professional contexts, and more than 25 countries. These trainings have shown that NM can positively impact listening and empathy, self-awareness, reflection, communication, professional wellbeing, professionalism, and general quality of care.
The Paris center hosts their workshops and conferences.
Serve the City
Serve the City Paris is part of a global network of English-speaking volunteers engaged in practical ways to assist those who are most in need. Their association is a legal NGO in Paris, focused on helping asylum seekers, the migrant population, the homeless, and underprivileged foreigners in Paris.
By inviting Serve the City to attend our student orientations, we have collectively sought to expand their volunteer base, which now includes Columbia University students. Serve the City has also participated in the Paris Center's virtual internship program, and it hosts bimonthly volunteer training workshops at the Center.
GWOBN
The Global Women on Boards Network is an initiative aimed at promoting and encouraging women into Board leadership. The Network provides a platform that will bring together women from diverse fields and ranks, facilitates those already on Boards to effectively carry out their roles and responsibilities, and prepares women in senior leadership roles for board positions.The initiative strives to ensure that the next generation of board members is diverse and promotes gender equality.
The Paris Center partners with the Nairobi Center to host their online trainings and their graduation ceremony.