2000-2004 Activities and Finance Report

This Report is an analytical account of the developments and initiatives undertaken by the International Association of Universities (IAU) from August 2000 to July 2004. These four years have seen marked changes in practically all areas of IAU activity: internal governance, closer co-ordination between different activities, development of substantial working ties with various partners, most particularly with UNESCO and, last but not least, in the administration of the Secretariat and the attainment of a certain degree of financial stability in the course of 2003.

Such internal developments, however, have to be set against equally dramatic shifts in both perception and expectation of how the universities of the world are - and ought to - develop. The strengthening of the international domain in the affairs of academe, the tensions which arise from that multi-dimensional change which conceptually is compressed into the general notion of ‘globalisation’ and policy constructs such as the Knowledge Economy or the Knowledge Society – all stand well to the fore. All demand a boldness of response, by individual universities, by the systems of which they are part, as they do of an Association whose motto is “The Universities of the World Working Together.”

Discover the IAU 2000-2004 Activities and Finance Report: Action, Adaptability and Achievement here.