Primary Financial Partners

Currently, the primary financial partners of Point Sud are:

• German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany
• Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Volkswagen Foundation, Germany

In the past, Point Sud has benefited from the financial support of:

• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany
• Institute for Advanced Studies in Nantes, France
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Mali
• Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS), Netherlands
• Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Sweden
• Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Science/Stockholm (SCASSS), Sweden
• University of Bayreuth, Germany
• University of Nantes, France
• Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Berlin, Germany

Primary Scientific Partners

Point Sud is part of a team for research and instruction in Mali that also includes:

• Company for Textiles of Mali (CMDT)
• Institute of Rural Economy of Mali (IER)
• International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
• University of Mali (Institute for Formation and Applied Research/Rural Polytechnic Institute of Katibougou)

Furthermore, Point Sud works jointly with:

• Council for the Development of Social Science in Africa (CODESRIA), Senegal
• Cluster of Excellence “The Formation of Normative Orders”, Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies of Porto Novo, Benin
• Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), South Africa
• University of Basel, Switzerland
• University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, Senegal
• University of Legon, Ghana
• University Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon
• University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

A number of researchers and students who have carried out their research in Mali with their own funding benefited from the courses, the office and guest house at Point Sud. They came from the Netherlands (Universities of Amsterdam and Leiden), the United States (Carlton College, NGO Helen Keller International, Northwestern University, Duke University, the Universities of Boston, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wesleyan and Yale as well as the World Resource Center), Germany (University of Bayreuth, Freie Universität Berlin, Goethe-University), France (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universities of Bordeaux and Nanterre), Canada (King’s University) and from India (Indian Institute for Management, Ahmedabad).