On June 3, at the Palais de l'Institut, a ceremony is being held for the signing of the Constitutive Charter of the Public Interest Group (Groupement d'intérêt public - GIP) ECAF, with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and under the patronage of the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres.

Founded by the EFEO in 2007 with the aim of increasing opportunities for European scholarly institutions to carry out fieldwork in Asia, the European Consortium for Asian Field study (ECAF) is incorporating in 2013 as an autonomous legal entity under French. Within the new GIP ECAF, 28 French and international partner institutions, both public and private, collaborate to develop joint research and mobility programs, as well as pooling resources and infrastructure.
Franciscus Verellen