Members of the Institut Universitaire de France must contribute to local, national and international scientific development, with a strong focus on interdisciplinarity.

[1] Each year, a symposium brings together members of the IUF in order to allow for discussion to take place at the highest level of French research.

Each year, the minister responsible for higher education appoints the members of the junior and senior juries, as well as their presidents, on the recommendation of an administrator, after consultation with the strategic and scientific council of the IUF.

[2] In 2008, Valérie Pécresse, the French minister of higher education and research at the time, provoked a scandal when she appointed an additional 22 members (9 juniors and 13 seniors) to the IUF who were not subject to the jury process.

[8] This declaration was supported by the Society Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SMAI)[9] and the French Association for Scientific Information (AFIS).