Lycée Louis Pasteur

What Lycée Louis Pasteur does

The Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Pasteur de Neuilly-sur-Seine (AAELP) is a French non-profit association registered under the loi 1901 on June 14, 1920, governed by an elected volunteer board with no paid staff. Its mission is to maintain friendship and solidarity across generations of "pasteuriens" (graduates of Lycée Pasteur) and to support current students through cultural, intellectual, and academic programs. Core offerings include an annual bulletin, a calendar of conferences featuring prominent alumni and public figures, cultural outings (museum visits and exhibitions priced at €25/participant), the flagship annual Forum des Grandes Écoles for current pré-university students, and student support activities including bridge courses and two named academic prizes — the Prix Henri Troyat for literature and the Prix Gérard Lévy for mathematics. The association also operates the Club des Poètes poetry competition for middle-school students and hosted a centenary concert by pianist Pierre Réach in November 2021.

The business model is membership-based and intentionally low-revenue. Primary recurring revenue comes from annual dues of €20 per regular member and €10 per student (a proposed increase to €25 for regular members is pending vote at the 2024 assembly); supplementary income comes from event participation fees (€36/person for the 2024 annual dinner, down from €40 in 2023), a municipal subsidy of €440/year from the City of Neuilly-sur-Seine that has been frozen for many years, and one-time donations. Go-to-market is community-led and event-driven: members are recruited through personal outreach, alumni word-of-mouth, the school's Pronote communication platform, email campaigns, and engagement at events. The technology stack is light — a WordPress website serves as the primary communication, membership, and event-registration hub, supplemented by third-party ticketing (Askabox, Weezevent) and, for one pandemic-era Forum, Discord. The association serves two primary customer segments: alumni of Lycée Pasteur (multi-generational, lifetime community members) and current students (who benefit from prizes, mentorship, and orientation programming).

Name

Lycée Louis Pasteur

Legal name

Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Pasteur de Neuilly-sur-Seine

Website

https://ancienslyceepasteurneuilly.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1920

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The AAELP is a volunteer-run, non-profit alumni association founded in 1920 maintaining connections among Lycée Pasteur graduates in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France through conferences, cultural events, academic prizes, and the Forum des Grandes Écoles for current students.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Alumni Association Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDALAOAM

Alumni Benefits, Membership & Affinity Programs

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Alumni Relations, Development & Campus Community Engagement

SECONDARYBPAGADAB

K–12 Support & School Improvement Nonprofits

Business & Public Services/Nonprofit, NGO & Social Services/Education & Youth Development Nonprofits

SECONDARYEDALAOAF

Alumni Communications, Marketing & Publications

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Alumni Relations, Development & Campus Community Engagement

SECONDARYEDALAOAB

Fundraising & Annual Giving

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Alumni Relations, Development & Campus Community Engagement

Keywords

• Alumni association services
• Alumni networking events
• Educational lecture programs
• Student academic prizes
• Cultural visit programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Neuilly-sur-Seine

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Annual Membership Dues: Members pay annual dues of €20 (or €10 for students). The 2024 report proposed increasing this to €25 for regular members while maintaining €10 for students. This is the primary recurring revenue stream supporting the association's activities.
2. Event Dinners and Participation Fees: The association charges participation fees for social events such as the annual dinner (€36 per person in 2024, €40 per person in 2023). Cultural visits (e.g., museum trips) also carry a participation fee of €25. These fees supplement membership dues.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Pasteur de Neuilly-sur-Seine (AAELP) is a French non-profit alumni association founded in 1898, governed under the loi 1901, that maintains the link between the Lycée Louis Pasteur and its approximately 900 former and current students. It offers paid membership, an annual Forum des Grandes Écoles, lectures and conferences, cultural visits, bridge courses, literary and mathematics prizes, and an annual general assembly, all funded through modest annual dues, a city grant, and donations.

Product overview

The Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Pasteur (AAELP) operates as a traditional alumni association offering a portfolio of services centered around maintaining connections between generations of former students. The core offerings include the annual Forum des Grandes Écoles for career guidance, regular conferences featuring notable speakers, cultural visits, and student support activities including bridge courses. The association administers two academic prizes (Henri Troyat for literature and Gérard Lévy for mathematics) and organizes an annual general assembly with dinner. The services are coordinated through a standard WordPress website without a unified software platform architecture.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Alumni Annual Membership
• Forum des Grandes Écoles
• Lectures and Conferences Program Series of talks and conferences for members and current students, promoted through the school platform Pronote and via Facebook, on intellectual and cultural topics.
• Cultural Visits Program Organized visits to museums and historic sites for members, with ticketing managed via third-party platforms such as Askabox and Weezevent.
• Prix Henri Troyat (literary prize) Literary prize awarded by the association to recognize student achievement in French literature/writing at Lycée Pasteur.
• Prix Gérard Lévy (mathematics prize) Mathematics prize awarded by the association to recognize student achievement in mathematics at Lycée Pasteur.
• Bridge Courses for CPGE entrants Academic bridging courses offered by the association to help students transition into their first year of classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles (CPGE) at Lycée Pasteur.
• Annual General Assembly (Assemblée Générale) Yearly meeting of association members including governance reports, elections, and a traditional dinner; a key paid in-person event in the association calendar.
• Club des Poètes Poetry activity run by the association for current Lycée Pasteur students, including a published poetry collection.

Quantifiable outcome

• 28 schools represented at Forum des Grandes Écoles with 150+ student participants (November 2023)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Core technology

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App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Cinéma Le Village (Neuilly-sur-Seine)minorOthers · 11 May 2023The municipality of Neuilly-sur-Seine made the cinema Le Village available to the AAELP for the projection of the film about professor François Fédier (May 11, 2023) and for the planned Club des Poètes final. This venue partnership enables cultural screenings and events open to the public.
• Société des Membres de la Légion d'Honneur – Section de NeuillycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 January 2023The AAELP partners with the Société des Membres de la Légion d'Honneur (SMLH) de Neuilly to co-organize conferences. The partnership began with the February 2024 conference on artificial intelligence (Thomas Serval) and continued with the December 2024 conference on energy history. The SMLH provides institutional support and helps recruit notable speakers.
• Amicale José BlanccoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2022The AAELP co-organized the April 2022 tribute ceremony for the late professor José Blanc with the Amicale José Blanc. Both organizations collaborated to honor the legacy of the celebrated literature teacher and to raise funds for naming the school's CDI (documentation center) after him.
• PEEP (Parents d'Élèves de l'Enseignement Public)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Contact was initiated with the PEEP (federation of public school parents) to better promote the association among parents who were themselves former students of Lycée Pasteur, and to explore opportunities for joint activities.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• ESSEC Alumni: Alumni network for ESSEC Business School graduates, representing an elite French educational institution's alumni body. Comparable as a structured alumni association serving graduates of a prestigious French school, though better resourced and globally oriented.
• Sciences Po Alumni: Alumni network for Sciences Po graduates, a large and well-resourced French educational alumni association with professional staff, digital platform, and global chapters. Comparable in mission and legal form but operates at materially greater scale than AAELP.
• AX - Association des Anciens Élèves de Polytechnique: Alumni association for École Polytechnique graduates, a large well-resourced organization for elite engineering-school alumni. Comparable mission of maintaining alumni ties and supporting current students, though operating at substantially greater scale and resources than AAELP.
• Association des Anciens Élèves de l'ENS (Auliens): Alumni network for École Normale Supérieure graduates, organized as a loi 1901 association. Comparable in legal form, French elite-institution focus, and alumni-engagement mission, though serving higher-education alumni with greater resources.

Direct peers

• Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Henri-IV: Alumni association for Lycée Henri-IV, another elite Parisian lycée. Operates under the same loi 1901 framework with alumni events, an annual bulletin, and student support activities — directly comparable structure, mission, and member demographic to AAELP.
• Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Louis-le-Grand: Alumni association for one of France's most prestigious lycées, renowned for its CPGE track producing top grandes écoles entrants. Closely comparable to AAELP in membership model, grandes écoles orientation focus, and concentration on elite Parisian secondary education alumni.
• Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Janson-de-Sailly: Alumni association for Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, a major Parisian public lycée with strong CPGE offerings. Directly comparable in target audience (Paris secondary-school alumni) and program mix (conferences, mentoring, cultural events).
• Association des Anciens Élèves du Lycée Condorcet: Alumni association for Lycée Condorcet in Paris, another prestigious secondary school offering similar alumni events, prizes, and student engagement programs to a comparable demographic of Paris-based alumni.

Others

• Fédération des Associations d'Anciens Élèves des Grandes Écoles: Federation coordinating alumni associations across French grandes écoles. Relevant as an ecosystem participant supporting French elite educational alumni networks, but operating at a federated/coordinating level rather than as a single-school association.

Regional players

• Société des Membres de la Légion d'Honneur (SMLH): French civic membership organization (loi 1901) with which AAELP actively partners on conferences. Comparable as a French nonprofit membership organization running conferences, ceremonies, and a Neuilly section — though focused on Legion of Honor members rather than school alumni.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/2208843384
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lycee-louis-pasteur-neuilly

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

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