Foundation for buildings for international organisations (FIPOI)

In 1964, the Confederation and the Canton of Geneva created the Foundation for buildings for international organisations (FIPOI). A non-profit foundation operating under private law, it provides a range of services intended for international organisations, in particular the provision of premises at preferential rates. The FIPOI is therefore tasked with providing infrastructures enabling international organisations to carry out their mission in the best possible conditions. To this end, the foundation’s work is guided by three main goals:

• to build, manage and maintain administrative and conference buildings;
• to make these premises available to inter-governmental organisations and, in exceptional cases, to non-governmental organisations;
• to ensure that the headquarters of international organisations in Geneva are financed and to advise these institutions on the organisation, construction and implementation of their project.