2 may 2023
Unconditional support of the Centre Européen de Musique, Alexis Merville, President of the Hippocrene Foundation since 2016, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, joins the board of directors of the association founded and chaired by Jorge Chaminé.
After working in the mergers and acquisitions department at Schroders and then Citigroup for three years, he joined Lazard Frères Gestion in 2002, subsequently becoming head of the bond management department. In 2010, he co-founded an investment management company, Rivage Investment, whose bond management and diversified management activities were later pursued at Fideas Capital, where he is now CEO. Fideas Capital is an investment management company specializing in considering the energy transition in listed asset portfolios.
Alexis Merville graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and holds a DESS in Capital Markets, Commodity Markets, and Risk Management from the University Paris IX Dauphine. Previously, he wrote a master's thesis on the contribution of French bankers to the construction of financial Europe.
This is a challenge that Alexis Merville has been addressing since 2016 as President of the Hippocrène Foundation, alongside his sister Dorothée Merville, who is the director. The Foundation, which has a family governance structure and is recognized as a public utility, aims to respond to this major European challenge. To achieve this, the philanthropic organization, created in 1992 by Jean and Mona Guyot, grandparents of Alexis Merville (whose parents are also musicians), supports associations, educational and cultural projects, led by or for young Europeans. Hippocrène is the originator of the first associative ecosystem for European youth, Inspiring Young Europeans. It is a real fertile ground for associations to embark on the European adventure.
"This ecosystem brings together a number of grassroots associations and European media outlets. Its aim is to Europeanize associative action by encouraging, enabling, and supporting anyone wanting to develop partnerships with other countries. The reasoning is very simple: when an association or young people work on their project with other countries, they significantly enrich their thinking. The second step is to find real foreign partners to be eligible for European funding. The last point is impact: coordinated action at the European level will have much greater resonance," explained Alexis Merville in an interview with Euradio Paris in 2022.
The "United in Diversity" concert, organized by the Hippocrène Foundation in September 2019 in the crypt of Saint-Honoré d'Eylau in partnership with the Coexister association, highlighted the expression of European values and the invitation to "active coexistence" among citizens with multiple convictions and identities, including various religious beliefs.
Another important aspect of the "Europe built from school" approach, a principle held by the Hippocrène Foundation, is to reward the best European partnership projects developed by a class and its teachers. That is why the Foundation has been offering the "Hippocrène Prize for Education on Europe" since 2010. This annual competition, open to educational institutions, notably recognized a project in 2022 jointly led by students and their teachers from six partner schools (France, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Croatia, and Hungary). This project, focused on the theme of dance, "highlighted the construction of individual, collective, and European identity by drawing on the virtues of choreographic art."
Présentation du prix Hippocrène 2023
The Foundation, whose name comes from the legendary spring that the horse Pegasus struck with his hoof on Mount Olympus and which became the chosen place of poets and muses, also supports large-scale projects such as The Grand Continent and the European Centre for Music. The foundation has also organized concerts with European themes.
Furthermore, as a "hosting" Foundation, Hippocrène hosts four foundations including EU-Topia, which aims to "develop a sense of belonging to Europe through music and culture, by promoting dialogue between the arts, humanities and sciences. Among its actions, it contributes to the realization and development of the Centre Européen de Musique (CEM) in Bougival and its various programs such as VIA MUSICA".
The official website of Hippocrène Foundation: fondationhippocrene.eu
2 may 2023
Unconditional support of the Centre Européen de Musique, Alexis Merville, President of the Hippocrene Foundation since 2016, Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite, joins the board of directors of the association founded and chaired by Jorge Chaminé.
After working in the mergers and acquisitions department at Schroders and then Citigroup for three years, he joined Lazard Frères Gestion in 2002, subsequently becoming head of the bond management department. In 2010, he co-founded an investment management company, Rivage Investment, whose bond management and diversified management activities were later pursued at Fideas Capital, where he is now CEO. Fideas Capital is an investment management company specializing in considering the energy transition in listed asset portfolios.
Alexis Merville graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and holds a DESS in Capital Markets, Commodity Markets, and Risk Management from the University Paris IX Dauphine. Previously, he wrote a master's thesis on the contribution of French bankers to the construction of financial Europe.
This is a challenge that Alexis Merville has been addressing since 2016 as President of the Hippocrène Foundation, alongside his sister Dorothée Merville, who is the director. The Foundation, which has a family governance structure and is recognized as a public utility, aims to respond to this major European challenge. To achieve this, the philanthropic organization, created in 1992 by Jean and Mona Guyot, grandparents of Alexis Merville (whose parents are also musicians), supports associations, educational and cultural projects, led by or for young Europeans. Hippocrène is the originator of the first associative ecosystem for European youth, Inspiring Young Europeans. It is a real fertile ground for associations to embark on the European adventure.
"This ecosystem brings together a number of grassroots associations and European media outlets. Its aim is to Europeanize associative action by encouraging, enabling, and supporting anyone wanting to develop partnerships with other countries. The reasoning is very simple: when an association or young people work on their project with other countries, they significantly enrich their thinking. The second step is to find real foreign partners to be eligible for European funding. The last point is impact: coordinated action at the European level will have much greater resonance," explained Alexis Merville in an interview with Euradio Paris in 2022.
The "United in Diversity" concert, organized by the Hippocrène Foundation in September 2019 in the crypt of Saint-Honoré d'Eylau in partnership with the Coexister association, highlighted the expression of European values and the invitation to "active coexistence" among citizens with multiple convictions and identities, including various religious beliefs.
Another important aspect of the "Europe built from school" approach, a principle held by the Hippocrène Foundation, is to reward the best European partnership projects developed by a class and its teachers. That is why the Foundation has been offering the "Hippocrène Prize for Education on Europe" since 2010. This annual competition, open to educational institutions, notably recognized a project in 2022 jointly led by students and their teachers from six partner schools (France, Romania, Spain, Turkey, Croatia, and Hungary). This project, focused on the theme of dance, "highlighted the construction of individual, collective, and European identity by drawing on the virtues of choreographic art."
Présentation du prix Hippocrène 2023
The Foundation, whose name comes from the legendary spring that the horse Pegasus struck with his hoof on Mount Olympus and which became the chosen place of poets and muses, also supports large-scale projects such as The Grand Continent and the European Centre for Music. The foundation has also organized concerts with European themes.
Furthermore, as a "hosting" Foundation, Hippocrène hosts four foundations including EU-Topia, which aims to "develop a sense of belonging to Europe through music and culture, by promoting dialogue between the arts, humanities and sciences. Among its actions, it contributes to the realization and development of the Centre Européen de Musique (CEM) in Bougival and its various programs such as VIA MUSICA".
The official website of Hippocrène Foundation: fondationhippocrene.eu
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