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About the fund
ICN Creactive funds works to finance, develop and promote an #ATM culture that draws on developments in the business world and the use of creative and artistic processes in all their forms to contribute to:
- Taking positive action on ecological and societal transitions
- Introducing more ‘creative’ and ‘plastic’ ways of thinking
- and anchor its practices in the reality of citizens and the many families to which they belong: schools, associations, businesses, institutions, society.
As part of these missions, ICN Creactive Funds brings together a community of economic players committed to societal issues, keen to help raise awareness, train and equip future generations to be active and enlightened contributors to economic and social life.
Creactive funds, as ICN's endowment fund, is responsible for the day-to-day administrative and financial management of donations from corporate sponsors and individual donors, as well as research programmes. Its main missions are to promote ATM culture (combining cultures = Art + Technology + Management) to the world of business and future workers, to create a community of committed players, and to transform donations and research work into visible, embodied activity: student bursaries, entrepreneurship awards, conference-debates, and awareness-raising workshops.
Solidarity with students through tuition grants and prize awards is an important and ongoing activity of the endowment fund.
Legal status
ICN Creactive funds is the ICN BS endowment fund governed by article 140 of the 2008 Law on the Modernisation of the Economy.
Our events
Mandarin hours
We are both promoters and artisans of Les Heures Mandarines. These are conferences with great bosses and passionate people, and a time dedicated to debate intended for our partners, the ICN family and beyond.
This is a nod to the school's colours and a little reminder to your happy hearts at this time of day when the orange colour of the sky calls us for a moment of exchange around a conference-debate and a drink to share on the ICN BS roof terrace in La Défense.
In 19th century in China, Mandarin hours were the hours when friends were received with as many privileges as their own families.
Our conferences ‘mandarin hours’ are a place for debate on societal issues, located in La Défense, to open minds to ways of thinking about the individual in his environment, with its multiple families of belonging: family in the literal sense, association, business, society, etc.
Hoping this awakens the Mandarin in you.
Some references we like about mandarin hours:
- This is the name of the liqueur created by Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Comte d'Empire, Napoleon 1st's chemist, the Mandarin Napoleon.
- Thierry Marx, a decision-maker who meditates and former head chef at the Mandarin Oriental, says ‘Put love and friendship at the heart of your management’.
Our activities for companies
Our graduates are renowned by recruiters for the ‘plasticity’ of their brains. This highly malleable way of thinking about issues, of modifying to create, undo and reorganise their reasoning, and enriching it as a function of their environment and experiences. This is the hallmark of the Art Technologie Management culture.
Our ambition is to pass on this #ATM culture to as many people as possible. We have developed 2 support packages for companies:
- Applied research with ICN Creactive Lab
- Consultancy missions with the Corporate Lab to work with our students, who are immersed in this ATM culture, and so benefit from both the plasticity of their brains and discover the different ways of collaborating with the younger generations.
Passing on the Art Technologie Management culture means successfully linking the organisational dimension of a corporate culture with the more sensitive dimension of the individuals who make it up, thereby spreading a culture of change, nurturing the ‘plasticity’ of our brains, and helping to meet the challenges of ecological and societal transition.
Our projects and case studies
ICN Creactive Lab
Applied research
For insiders only, this is a way of using the tools and scientific methodology of our research professors and ATM experts to address business issues.
The practice
Because we want to make our research useful and accessible to as many people as possible, we apply the results of our research to your company's problems in the form of ATM workshops so that participants (employees, customers, etc.) can have an experience that nourishes the ‘plasticity’ of their brains, by following the stages of a creative process. And we organise conferences to raise awareness and popularise our results, on both sides.
Our partners in ICN Creactive Lab: Préfon, Harvest & CNP
Investor's game
Started in 2022 // Project manager: Hélène Xuan // Associated researchers: Luc Arrondel, Stéphane Hamayon & Florence Legros.
Applied research
Applied economic research into the savings and wealth accumulation behaviour of individuals.
Tools: a PATER questionnaire to estimate the utility functions of our preferences with regard to time, risk and altruism using multiple-choice questions, Likert scales and lotteries (Barsky, etc.).
Results: a typology of savers according to their preferences and stability of preferences over time.
Questions in progress: savers and annuities, biases in the measurement of risk aversion, individual preferences and wealth accumulation
The practice
ATM workshops to disseminate the results of our applied research in a fun and experiential way, through case studies to be solved ‘in real life’ over a period of 2 to 3 hours: Financial education workshops for the general public, created in the form of an immersive experience and a ‘staged’ questionnaire (visual environment, sound, role-playing, etc.) to discover your savings profile, plan and save for your life projects, and challenge yourself against others to become a ‘better’ saver).
And conferences to popularise and debate the results of our research with the business world, politicians and civil society.
Our partners in ICN Creactive Lab: Préfon, Harvest & CNP
They like working with us
Our development priorities
The ICN Fund has chosen to support the school in four major areas of vital importance to its students.
Pedagogy and research
ICN's slogan ‘Creactive Business School’ deliberately combines creativity and responsiveness with a focus on action. These key words guide ICN's teaching and research, which are at the heart of any top management school.
Innovation et creativity
Each year, the ICN Fund awards two prizes:
- The Innovation Prize, which rewards ICN administrative and teaching staff for their innovative projects or methods.
- The creactive awards, aimed at students, to highlight their creative projects and support them in pursuing them.
Research
The dynamic of both fundamental and applied research is a concern of the members of the ICN fund.
The fund also allocates seed money each year for research projects led by our teacher-researchers.
Ecole des entrepreneurs
At ICN Business School, you can study AND become an entrepreneur, thanks in particular to a tailor-made programme and support during and after your studies.
From 2019, the ICN fund has given impetus to the ‘School of Entrepreneurs’ scheme, professionalising the activity internally and anchoring it at the heart of the Grand Est ecosystem.
The entrepreneurship prize has also been launched to reward the ICN student-entrepreneur(s) of the year, with a financial boost and an offer of support from our partner banks!
Solidarity et responsability
Supporting our students and legitimising our actions
- Every year, the ICN Fund awards ten solidarity scholarships, primarily to first-year students on the Grande École programme. It also offers three excellence scholarships for EMBA candidates. Each grant amounts to €5,000 per year.
- In addition, a special Covid-19 solidarity fund was set up as soon as the health crisis began.
- In 2018, ICN is the first Business School to have assessed the maturity of its economic, social, societal and environmental practices via AFNOR Certification's Engagé RSE approach… an action financed thanks to donations!
International
Carrying our (your) colours across borders!
The aim is to raise ICN's international profile, both through our innovative teaching thanks to the Artem Alliance and through our research and students.
- In 2017, for example, the endowment fund supported the second edition of the Artem international conference on organisational creativity and sustainable development.
- The development of the Berlin campus was also co-financed by the ICN fund.
Infrastructures
Make your contribution!
The aim of the ‘Infrastructure’ priority is to develop and modernise our campuses.
It can also respond to the digitalisation of ICN…
- In 2017/2018, the ICN fund contributed to the refurbishment of our Paris campus at CNIT La Défense.
- The fund also released an emergency envelope for digital projects deployed and/or accelerated in response to e-learning needs following Covid-19.
Choose your payment method
- Credit card
- Monthly withdrawal
- Chèque (order "Fonds ICN")
- Bank transfer
Return it (if necessary) to
Fonds de dotation ICN
86 rue du Sergent Blandan
CS 70148
54003 NANCY Cedex
Our recognition programme
This programme is based on your commitment, donation or cumulative donations over the period 2016-2022. Each donor benefits from the privileges of the circles below their own.
For all loyal donors (minimum 3 consecutive years)
- Mention of your name in the fund's annual activity report
- Subscription to the ICN endowment fund newsletter
Major donors
- special mention on the donor wall
- You can associate your name with a project or a classroom
Benefactors
- Opportunity to become a member of the Board of Directors of the ICN Endowment Fund
- Acknowledgement of your support in the annual donor press release
- Invitation to the annual donor dinner
Supporters
- Submission of the annual activity report of the ICN endowment fund
- Special mention on the donor wall
Download the 2023-2024 activity report
Your tax benefits
IFI 75%
75% of your donation can be deducted from your property wealth tax, up to a maximum reduction of €50,000.
So a donation of €30,000 will actually cost you €7,500, after tax deduction.
Please note: please let us know if you are making your donation for the IFI deduction (formerly ISF). Your tax receipt will then be sent to you by ICN Business School.
IR 66%
66% of your donation from your income tax (IR), up to a limit of 20% of your taxable income.
So a donation of €1,000 really does cost you €340, after tax deduction.
IS 60%
60% of your donation from your company's corporation tax (IS), taken within the limit of €20,000 or 5‰ of turnover when the latter amount is higher.
Thus, a donation of €25,000 comes to €10,000 after tax deduction.
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