Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based worldwide association of higher education institutions. It brings together institutions and organisations from some 120 countries for reflection and action on common concerns and collaborates with various international, regional and national bodies active in higher education. Its services are available on the priority basis to Members but also to organisations, institutions and authorities concerned with higher education, as well as to individual policy and decision-makers, specialists, administrators, teachers, researchers and students. The Association aims at giving expression to the obligation of universities and other higher education institutions as social institutions to promote, through teaching, research and services, the principles of freedom and justice, of human dignity and solidarity, and contributes, through international cooperation, to the development of material and moral assistance for the strengthening of higher educat (...)
EU Legislative Interests
Sits on the advisory boards of several European university alliances Part of the ENIC-NARIC network HE Working Group, Directorate of Democratic Citizenship and Participation EHEA EQAR DEQAR Council of Europe Framework for Competencies for Democratic Culture Observer to CDEDU and Member of subgroup on higher education ERASMUS+
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
IAU works with an extensive network of university / higher education associations and organisations, including the European University Association: https://iau.global/members https://iau.global/partnerships
Organisation Members
https://iau.global/members