The mission of the Institut Universitaire de France is to promote the development of high-level research in universities and to strengthen interdisciplinarity, by pursuing three objectives:
Encourage institutions and teacher-researchers to excel in research, with the positive consequences that can be expected for teaching, the training of young researchers and more generally the dissemination of knowledge.
Contribute to the feminization of the research sector.
To contribute to a balanced distribution of university research in the country, and thus to a policy of scientific networking of the territory.

Each year, the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), whose role is to encourage the development of high-level research in universities and to strengthen interdisciplinarity, distinguishes young (junior) and more experienced (senior) professors for the excellence of their research. Appointed for a period of five years, the IUF laureates are placed in a position of delegation but continue to work in their home institution. This appointment allows them to devote themselves fully to their research activity by benefiting from a release of two thirds of their teaching service, the doctoral and research supervision bonus, as well as a budgetary allocation for their laboratory.