"At IE Foundation’s Center for Social Innovation and Sustainability, we collaborate with our partners to boost their positive impact in the world. With their support, we have helped more than 550 beneficiaries and delivered more than 2.300 hours of mentoring and more than 300 hours of training. Together, we promote Social Innovation and Sustainability as key levers for building a better future"
An enclave for progress Discover our research centers, projects with which the IE Foundation collaborates to promote progress and the advancement of knowledge.
Research Centers
IE Foundation’s investigation centers are looking to face the challenge of our constantly changing environment. In order to achieve this, our centers are focused on pursuing economic and societal development through diverse investigation initiatives, centered on promoting diversity or multidisciplinary knowledge amongst other things.
Center for Climate Change
This center is dedicated to offering expert knowledge and exceptional talent to address pressing environmental issues, including climate change and water security.
Center for Climate Change
LawAhead Center on the Legal Profession
This center for Research and Dissemination is relevant to the legal sector and jurists. The purpose of this Center is to unite legal professionals in order to create a decisive impact on society in the long term and to vindicate the essential values of the legal profession.
LawAhead Center on the Legal Profession
Center for Transport Economics & Infrastructure Management
This is a center for the generation and dissemination of knowledge about transport and infrastructure management. The center aims to become a point of reference for the analysis of these industries in an independent academic ecosystem.
Center for Transport Economics & Infrastructure Management
Center for Families in Business
This research and networking center has an innovative understanding of family businesses and works to provide value to family businesses on a global scale.
Center for Families in Business
Center for Social Innovation & Sustainability
This center carries out research initiatives that focus on three main areas: entrepreneurship, technology applied to social innovation and conscientious leadership.
Center for Social Innovation & Sustainability
Center for the Governance of Change
This education and research institution works to help governments and businesses face the changes that come with new technologies and innovations.
Center for the Governance of Change
Center for Diversity in Global Management
This center engages in activities geared toward the power of diversity, helping organizations take advantage of the opportunities represented by diversity.
Center for Diversity in Global Management
Center for Health & Well-Being
From the classroom to the workplace, modern life poses many difficult challenges. It is our belief that higher education must provide important life skills for individuals not only to survive, but to thrive amidst these challenges
Center for Health & Well-Being
Center for Entrepreneurship
At IE, we believe that entrepreneurs are the drivers of change in our society, and these ambitious individuals are responsible for encouraging development and growth on a global scale. This center helps release the entrepreneurial potential of each member of the IE community.
Center for Entrepreneurship
China Center
The IE China Center’s work is focused on analyzing the market and investment challenges and opportunities in China.
China Center
Center for Innovation for Global Politics and Economics
The Center for Innovation in Global Politics and Economics (CIGPE) is the new academic think tank of the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs, under the leadership of Dr. Ilke Toygür
Center for Innovation for Global Politics and Economics
Africa Center
The vision of the IE Africa Center is to revolutionize the way that African business and culture are taught across higher education institutions, starting with our own.
Africa Center
Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance
This center is recognized in Europe as a hub for the study and promotion of Islamic finance, which is based on an alternative and ethical financial system.
Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance
Observatory of the Financial Behaviour of Households and SMEs
The Observatory of the Financial Behaviour of Households and SMEs conducts pioneering research to improve the financial skills and decisions of households and small entrepreneurs, aiming to enhance well-being and the resilience of SMEs.
Observatory of the Financial Behaviour of Households and SMEs
Impact Xcelerator
The Impact Xcelerator converges top global academics and ventures, fostering breakthroughs in education, technology, and research. By leveraging a strong entrepreneurial culture, they solve real-world problems and advance global impact through our extensive network of industry collaborators and leading universities.
Impact Xcelerator