ANDès

What ANDès does

ANDès (Association Nationale des Docteurs) is a French non-profit association founded in 1970 under the law of July 1, 1901, and recognized as serving the public utility (reconnue d'utilité publique) since 1975. Its mission is to promote the doctorate as a professional degree, increase the visibility of doctorate holders' competencies in French society, and create synergies between doctor networks. The association represents individual doctorate holders — primarily in France — through a community-led model centered on annual membership, regional Communities of French Doctors (CFD) branches in nine cities (Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, Nancy, Rennes, Toulouse, and Centre-Val de Loire), and a digital network of 6,000+ members on LinkedIn and 3,100+ on Facebook.

ANDès's offering consists of publications, digital platforms, and community programs rather than commercial technology products. Core publications include the Guide du Doctorat (the national reference guide for doctoral practice, edited in 2020 with ministry support and translated into English in 2022, sold at €25.90 via Spartacus IDH) and the Passeport Docteur career tool. Supporting resources include a statistics portal on doctorates in France, a financing guide for doctoral candidates, and the Compétences des docteurs framework registered in the French RNCP skills directory. Digital infrastructure is utilitarian and open-source: a self-hosted Belenios instance for internal elections, a Sympa mailing list server shared with the Confédération des Jeunes Chercheurs, and Matomo plus Google Analytics for audience measurement. There are no proprietary AI/ML capabilities.

The association's revenue model relies on recurring annual membership dues (exact fee undisclosed) supplemented by minor one-time publication sales. It is governed by an elected board of directors and run largely by volunteers with 9 staff for coordination. Strategic positioning is reinforced by membership in Cneser, partnership in the MESRE national doctorate platform (launched February 2026), co-founding of Eurodoc in 2002, and co-organization of the inaugural European Doctoral Day (JED) on 13 May 2026 at Sorbonne Université with Adoc Talent Management, APEC, ANRT, RNCD, Réseau Biotechno, and Sorbonne Université.

Name

ANDès

Legal name

Association Nationale des Docteurs

Website

https://andes.asso.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

1970

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ANDès is the French national association of doctorate holders, founded in 1970 and recognized of public utility since 1975. It serves individual doctorate holders through annual membership, regional CFD community branches, publications, policy advocacy in Cneser and MESRE bodies, and digital platforms for governance.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Association Services

NAICS

Business Associations (813910)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYEDALAOAG

Alumni Events, Reunions & Regional Chapters

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

• Doctoral advocacy association
• Professional doctorate network
• Researcher community services
• Doctoral career resources
• Academic policy representation

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership dues: Members pay an annual subscription to join ANDès. The membership is valid for one year and must be renewed annually. Payment can be made online or by check sent to the Paris office.
2. Guide du Doctorat publication sales: ANDès co-edited and supported the publication of the Guide du Doctorat (Doctorate Guide), sold at 25.90 euros per copy through Spartacus IDH. The guide was supported by the ministry responsible for research and edited in 2020.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

ANDès is a French non-profit association (founded 1970, recognized of public utility since 1975) that represents doctorate holders by offering paid annual memberships, the Guide du Doctorat reference publication, career tools such as the Passeport Docteur, competency frameworks (RNCP), statistics and financing guides for doctoral candidates, and a nationwide community network (CFD) with regional branches and annual European Doctoral Day events. Revenue comes primarily from membership dues and publication sales through publisher Spartacus IDH.

Product overview

ANDès (Association Nationale des Docteurs) is a non-profit association promoting the doctorate in France. Its offering consists of publications, digital platforms, and community programs. Key products include the Guide du Doctorat (national reference guide for doctoral practice), the Passeport Docteur (career tool for doctorate holders), and the online electronic voting platform for internal elections. The association also operates the Communauté Française des Docteurs (CFD) network with regional branches across France, and organizes the annual Journée européenne du doctorat (JED) event. Supporting resources include statistical data on doctorates in France and a financing guide for doctoral candidates. Digital infrastructure includes an electronic voting platform (vote.andes.asso.fr) powered by Belenios software and a mailing list server (listes.andes.asso.fr) powered by Sympa.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Individual Membership

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

Partnerships

14 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Sorbonne UniversitécoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Co-organized the first European Doctoral Day (JED) event 'Le doctorat face aux grands défis de notre temps' on May 13, 2026, held at Sorbonne Université (4 place Jussieu, Paris). Sorbonne Université provided the venue and co-branded the event.
• Réseau National des Collèges Doctoraux (RNCD)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Co-organized the first European Doctoral Day (JED) event 'Le doctorat face aux grands défis de notre temps' on May 13, 2026. RNCD is the national network of doctoral colleges in France.
• Adoc Talent ManagementcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Co-organized the first European Doctoral Day (JED) event. Adoc Talent Management is a recruitment consultancy specializing in doctorate holders, which initiated the 2018 conference on the place of doctors in society.
• Association pour l'emploi des cadres (APEC)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Co-organized the first European Doctoral Day (JED) event. APEC is the French association for executive employment, providing career services for managers and executives in France.
• Réseau BiotechnominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Co-organized the first European Doctoral Day (JED) event. Réseau Biotechno is a network of biotechnology researchers and professionals.
• Agence nationale de la recherche et de la technologie (ANRT)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Co-organized the first European Doctoral Day (JED) event. ANRT manages the CIFRE program (conventions industrielles de formation par la recherche) linking companies and doctoral researchers.
• Eurodoc (European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 May 2026Eurodoc is the European federation of doctoral candidate and junior researcher associations. ANDès represents France in Eurodoc. The JED event was organized under the European Doctoral Day label. ANDès participated in the Eurodoc spring meeting (April 2026, 34 delegates) and annual general meeting (June 2026).
• Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l'Espace (MESRE) — Plateforme nationale du doctoratcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2026ANDès is a major partner of the national doctorate platform (doctorat.gouv.fr) launched in February 2026 by MESRE, following the Pommier-Lazarus mission on the place of the doctorate in France. The platform aims to inform, make accessible, and facilitate access to doctoral education.
• Spartacus IDH (publisher)minorOthers · 8 February 2024Published and distributes the Guide du Doctorat (25.90 euros), which was edited in 2020 with support from the ministry responsible for research and translated into English in 2022.
• Biodocs ParisminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 October 2018Co-organized the conference 'La place des docteurs dans notre société, historique et visions prospectives' on October 11, 2018 at Sorbonne Université.
• Doc'UpminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 October 2018Co-organized the conference 'La place des docteurs dans notre société, historique et visions prospectives' on October 11, 2018 at Sorbonne Université.
• Les CartésiensminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 October 2018Co-organized the conference 'La place des docteurs dans notre société, historique et visions prospectives' on October 11, 2018 at Sorbonne Université.
• Réseau BIOTechnominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 October 2018Co-organized the conference 'La place des docteurs dans notre société, historique et visions prospectives' on October 11, 2018 at Sorbonne Université.
• Adoc Talent Management (conference initiator)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 October 2018Initiated and co-organized the conference 'La place des docteurs dans notre société, historique et visions prospectives' on October 11, 2018, celebrating its 10th anniversary.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• Cneser (Conseil national de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche): French national advisory council on higher education and research where ANDès holds a seat. Comparable as a stakeholder on doctorate policy but operates as a regulatory body rather than a member-facing association.
• APEC (Association Pour l'Emploi des Cadres): France's executive employment association. While APEC targets executives rather than doctorate holders specifically, it is a comparable French non-profit membership organization providing career services and joint programming with ANDès (e.g., JED 2026).
• ANRT (Agence Nationale de la Recherche et de la Technologie): French association managing the CIFRE program that links companies with doctoral researchers. Comparable as a non-profit intermediary in the doctorate-industry pipeline ANDès serves, though ANRT operates a government-funded program rather than a member-driven model.

Broad incumbents

• Conférence des Grandes Écoles (CGE): French association of higher-education institutions. While it represents schools rather than individuals, it sits in the adjacent policy and recognition space, sits on Cneser alongside ANDès, and has comparable scale as a recognized French education membership body.

Direct peers

• Réseau National des Collèges Doctoraux (RNCD): National network of French doctoral colleges. Co-organizes JED events with ANDès and sits at the same intersection of doctoral education policy and member representation, but with an institutional rather than individual-members constituency.
• Confédération des Jeunes Chercheurs (CJC): French national association for early-career researchers. Comparable because it represents a closely overlapping constituency (PhDs and post-docs) and shares ANDès's mailing-list infrastructure (Sympa) and member-services model.
• Réseau BIOTechno: Network of biotechnology researchers and professionals that co-organizes doctorate-themed events with ANDès. A comparable peer because it operates a community + events model in the same doctoral-talent and career-support space, but in a narrower thematic vertical.
• Adoc Talent Management: French recruitment consultancy specializing in doctorate holders that initiated the 2018 'Place des docteurs' conference and partners on JED. A comparable peer because it operates at the intersection of doctorate talent and private-sector employers — the exact pain point ANDès addresses.
• Eurodoc (European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers): The European federation of doctoral candidate and junior researcher associations that ANDès co-founded in 2002. Eurodoc is the closest structural peer: it operates in the same niche (advocacy, networking, policy voice for doctorate holders) but at the European rather than national level.
• Association Bernard Gregory (ABG): French non-profit specialized in PhD careers and employer connections. It addresses the same problem ANDès attacks (private-sector recognition of doctorate holders) through job placement and corporate partnerships, making it the closest functional competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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