Activities and Financial Report 2008-2012

The International Association of Universities (IAU) publishes Annual Reports where details of major activities are presented and shared with all IAU Members and the wider higher education community. In addition, each IAU monthly E-Bulletin leads off with news of the IAU highlighting initiatives underway. Finally IAU Horizons, the Association’s magazine, devotes significant space to reporting on IAU work. The following report and its accompanying power point presentation are thus merely a synopsis of key achievements of the past 4 extremely busy and quite tumultuous years.

As the financial report of this same period attests, the IAU has managed its resources carefully, keenly aware of the impact on its Members of the serious economic crisis that different parts of the world have experienced or are still experiencing now. IAU has increased its revenue, curtailed its expenditures and generated modest surpluses each year, thus continuing to build its reserve. In the past 4 years, the staff of the IAU Secretariat was reduced by one senior position, yet, its activities have increased considerably.

The following report is organized around the major functions of the Association and the priority areas that were adopted in 2008, by the General Conference and subsequently refined during successive Administrative Board meetings. The work described has been accomplished with support of the IAU President and Administrative Board members, various Committees, Working Groups and experts as well as by a dedicated and committed staff at the IAU Secretariat in Paris.

Discover the IAU Activities and Financial Report 2008-2012 here.