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Skills Academy in Japan Summer Class
The Foundation
Since 2008, the actions of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès have been guided by a single, unifying conviction: “Our gestures define us and show who we are”. In other words, by acting for the well-being of all, we grow and become better human beings.
The Foundation’s four core missions enact its commitment to targeted philanthropy and support through in-house programmes designed to transmit skills and expertise, create new works of art, protect the environment and encourage gestures of solidarity.
The Foundation’s four core missions enact its commitment to targeted philanthropy and support through in-house programmes designed to transmit skills and expertise, create new works of art, protect the environment and encourage gestures of solidarity.
Create
Woojung Hoh in Residency at the cristallerie Saint-Louis
Since 2010, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès has invited artists to participate in residencies within the Maison’s workshops, offering them the opportunity to produce a new body of work that draws on the skills of the sites’ craftspeople. In 2026, Soyeon Ahn, curator of l'Atelier Hermès in Seoul, has been invited by the Foundation to oversee this creative programme. In turn, she has extended an invitation to Korean painter Woojung Hoh to undertake a residency at the cristallerie Saint-Louis.
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"Toute la beauté du monde" at La Grande Place, musée Saint-Louis
Alongside crystalware pieces crafted at the Cristallerie Saint-Louis, artist Léa Barbazanges presents “Toute la beauté du monde” (All the World’s Beauty) at La Grande Place, an exhibition of over a dozen recent works created using materials and textures drawn from the plant, mineral and animal kingdoms. Imagined as an experience at once visual and multisensory, it will be on display from May 7 to September 27, 2026, and is the third chapter of the programme curated by the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg at La Grande Place, Musée Saint-Louis.
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Transmit
Study bursaries
Alongside its support for artistic creation, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is committed to increasing access to training and education for tomorrow’s artists. In 2019, the Foundation created a set of means-tested bursaries to ensure that theatre, dance, circus and puppetry students can fully dedicate their energies to their future careers.
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Protect
Manuterra 2025-2026
September marks the beginning of a fifth school year for Manuterra, learning from the living world, which continues to expand across France. Across the Foundation's 13 partner boards of education, more than 1,000 pupils are now participating in this programme, which seeks to raise young people’s awareness of ecosystems. By cultivating a plot of land, they can explore the many facets of biodiversity and engage more closely with environmental issues.
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Manufacto 2025-2026
This school year, over 2,300 pupils will discover craft techniques through Manufacto, The Skills Factory. Now entering its tenth year, this educational programme dedicated to raising awareness of artisanal skills amongst young people continues to expand across France thanks to a partnership between the Foundation and 19 boards of education.
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