THE FOUNDATION
The Geneva-based Sharing Knowledge Foundation aims to contribute to the reduction of inequalities through knowledge sharing and scientific cooperation in Africa and the Middle East (MENA). The Foundation promotes scientific research, education and knowledge sharing as cornerstones for collaborative development and the promotion of peace.
The Sharing Knowledge Foundation is the brainchild of physicist Robert Klapisch. As a research director at CERN, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious laboratories, Robert Klapisch became increasingly convinced that science and the sharing of knowledge are essential vectors of peace and cornerstones of development.
It was during his mandate as President of the French Association for the Advancement of Science (AFAS) that he launched the “Sharing Knowledge” conferences in 2002, aimed at facilitating scientific mobility and meetings between experts from around the Mediterranean. In 2006, following the success of these events, he decided to found an independent structure and created the “Fondation Partager le Savoir” (SKF – Sharing Knowledge Foundation) which he will chair until his death in March 2020.