All of FMSH-DEVAR’s programs are carried out under the auspices of partnership contracts and agreements with both public and private institutions. These include: Ministry of National Education; Ministry of Higher Learning and Research; Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs; Ministry of Tourism; Center for Strategic Analysis; European Commission; Berliet Foundation; EDF Foundation; ED-R&D; Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt); Agence de Mise en Valeur du Patrimoine et de Promotion Culturelle (Tunisia); Ministry of Culture (Morocco), and others.
Programs and projects representative of FMSH-DEVAR’s main orientations:
D: Diffusion
- "Archéologie sous les mers, techniques et recherches" (“Underwater Archeology, techniques and research”) Exhibition
- "Our Industrial Past" (Mémoires industrielles) Collection
- Cognitics, interdisciplinary research on cognition. Website of ACI cognitique (created in 1999 by the Ministry of Research).
E: Experimentation
- Strabon : multilingual, multimedia information systems for Euro-Mediterranean cultural heritage and tourism
- Strabon Caribbean
- Arkeotek, archaeology of techniques (experiments in online publication), with the FMSH’s publications service and in partnership with the European Association Arkeotek.
VA: Promotion
- Protocol for the ethnology of organizations:
- Study, L'EHPAD, pour finir de vieillir (Retirement homes and terminal care)
- Study: L'Elaboration d'indicateurs de dépendance en institution gériatrique (Elaborating dependency indicators in geriatric institutions)
- PNER (Programme Numérisation pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche): Program on Digitizing Learning and Research
- Historical committee of the Ministry of Culture: promoting and generating interest in research, organizing seminars, documenting the history of the ministry in regards to cultural affairs and institutions.
R : Research
- Cognitive Technologies Program
- Singularity and Technology
- Eumedis Study: Réflexions et Suggestions pour le partage des connaissances dans l'espace numérique euro-méditerranéeen (Reflections and Suggestions on Knowledge Sharing in the Euro-Mediterranean Digital Public Spher).
These examples are but a few of the exciting programs going on at the FMSH-DEVAR.