Our commitment
Alongside health care professionals,
in favour of young children 
Under the aegis of the Fondation de France since its creation in 1982, the Mustela Foundation is dedicated to health care professionals: paediatricians, child psychiatrists, psychologists, paediatric nurses, midwives. The Mustela Foundation works alongside these professionals for the development of young children and their relationships with their environment.
Supporting research
Every year, the Mustela Foundation awards two to three research grants to PhD or post-PhD students in psychology, paediatrics and child psychiatry. In order to be successful, research projects must lead to practical applications in the early childhood sector. Since 2007, the foundation has also been awarding an action research prize, thus supporting an innovative project relating to early childhood development. To this day, the Mustela Foundation has supported more than 70 young or experienced researchers.
Encouraging children’s health prevention
For a number of years, the Foundation has been updating and regularly republishing the widely distributed child health prevention tools targeting a vast and varied audience such as maternity hospitals, medical practices, centres for the care of mothers and infants (PMI – Protection Maternelle et Infantile), nurseries, hospitals, secondary schools…
Initiating meetings
On an annual research trip the Mustela Foundation enables early childhood professionals and French journalists to discover the health care system of a European or neighbouring country. This trip is then recorded in articles published throughout the year in the early childhood press. In 2010, the 20th study trip went to Madrid in Spain.
Funding the implementation of actions in the field
For the first time in 2006, the Foundation awarded a 10,000 € Social Paediatrics Award (Prix de Pédiatrie Sociale), in collaboration with the Société Française de Pédiatrie (SFP or French Paediatrics Society). This prize aims to support promotional actions for the “positive treatment” in their environment of children, from birth up to twelve years of age, and of their families. The project is lead in the field by health care professionals, in a team or individually.
In 2007, this action was set up in Italy with the Scholar in Allergy Award.
Acting for mothers and children on an international scale
The Foundation sets up partnerships with non-profit associations or organisations in other countries working in the same field.
For instance, since 2006 the Mustela Foundation has supported a project in favour of mother-child relations, in a foreign country.
In 2009, it committed to a partnership with the Soeur Emmanuelle organisation (ASMAE) in order to support two projects. The first in the Lebanon, aimed at preventing ill-treatment of children and improving management of child victims of ill-treatment. The second in Madagascar, in favour of autonomy and social integration for people suffering from an intellectual disability.
