The Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe holds private funds related to the origins and developments of European integration and the relationship between Switzerland and the European Union. Its missions are to enrich, preserve, enhance and make available its documentary resources.
Jean Monnet’s archives are its heart and jewel: they bear witness to the birth of the European Communities and are an essential source for all those who are interested in the subject. These archives allow us to take the measure of a work that marked the 20th century and spread to several continents.
In the wake of the Monnet fonds, other valuable archives are also kept at the Foundation: the archives of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe; the European archives of Robert Schuman; the archives of Robert Marjolin; the archives of Michel Gaudet; the digital copy of the archives of Paul-Henri Spaak; the digital copy of the European archives of Jacques Delors; etc.
The Foundation’s resources represent approximately 1 linear kilometre of documents in all media: paper archives; photographs; interviews, films and sound documents; iconographic documents; official publications of the European Union; library books. The Foundation also preserves and makes available an important digital heritage.
To enable the exploitation of this mass of documents, research instruments, including numerous detailed inventories, are available to researchers. These instruments are themselves in constant development.
The Foundation’s general archive policy has been defined to meet current requirements and challenges in the field of archives.
For any request concerning the archives, please contact Vincent Bezençon, by telephone
(+41 21 692 20 97) or by e-mail (vincent.bezencon@nullfjme.unil.ch).