1948-1950: Henri Rieben’s collaboration with the Steel Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.
1952: Henri Rieben defends a thesis entitled “From the agreements of blacksmiths to the Schuman Plan”.
1955: First meeting between Jean Monnet and Henri Rieben in Luxembourg and the beginning of a collaboration.
Creation by Jean Monnet of the Action Committee for the United States of Europe.
1957: Creation by the University of Lausanne and the Waldensian Government of a chair of European integration, for which Henri Rieben was in charge until 1991.
Creation of the European Research Centre outside the University and on a private basis. Launch of the “Red Notebook” collection.
1957: Registration of the Administrative Management Association of the Action Committee in the Lausanne Commercial Register. Creation in Lausanne by Jean Monnet of the Documentation Centre of the said committee. Creation by Jean Monnet, also in Lausanne, of the European Community Institute for University Studies, with the aim of encouraging the development of university courses devoted to the construction of Europe. Henri Rieben is its secretary.
1957-1975: The European Research Centre is associated with the research conducted for Jean Monnet and his Action Committee for the United States of Europe.
1963: Creation in Lausanne by Jean Monnet of the Institute for European Historical Research with the aim of collecting significant archives and devoting research to them. From 1965, Jean Monnet asked Henri Rieben to succeed him as President of this Institute.
1966: Jean Monnet expresses in his agenda the idea of handing over his archives to the European Research Centre and Henri Rieben.
1978: Creation by Jean Monnet of the Foundation to which he gives all his archives and the mission to create from them and those of other protagonists of the united Europe a living memory of reconciliation and union of Europeans, to make it available to researchers, to guide them, to conduct his own research and to continue through the Red Papers the information of leaders and citizens.
1981: The State of Vaud renovates the Ferme de Dorigny, in the heart of the Lausanne university campus, and makes it available free of charge to the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe.
1983: Henri Rieben and his associates donate the European Research Centre and the Red Book Series collection to the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe.
2006: Death of Henri Rieben and beginning of the presidency of Bronislaw Geremek.
2008: The Foundation loses its President Bronislaw Geremek, who died in a traffic accident.
2009: Beginning of the presidency of José Maria Gil-Robles.