Academia Europaea () | UNESCO NGO

Academia Europaea

Contact Details

Main address: Exec Sec: Mr David Coates, 4th Floor, 21 Albemarle St, W1S 4HS, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Tel: (44 20) 7495 3717, Fax: (44 20) 7629 5442, E-mail: execsec (at) acadeuro.org

URL: http://www.acadeuro.org/

Aims

Promote and support excellence in European scholarship, research and education; promote development of the European identity in scholarship and research and act as a European centre for scholars; encourage interdisciplinary and international studies and research; encourage and assist collaboration among scholars in Europe; encourage cooperation among centres of scholarship in Europe and promote development of collaborative programmes among centres of scholarship for graduate education, postgraduate education and training; provide independent advice on matters of scholarly interest or concern to legislatures, governments, universities and polytechnics, and to professional, industrial and commercial organizations in Europe; encourage and assist the mobility of scholars and students in Europe.

Official Relations

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)^* (Consultative Status).

Activities

Provides expert, informed opinion on matters of topical interest in government and in public life (these may be scientific, technical, economic, cultural); sets up study groups; organizes congresses, conferences and symposia.

Publications

European Review (4 a year); Academia Europaea Directory (annual); The Tree - newsletter. Excellence in Higher Education; Goals and Purposes of Higher Education in the 21st Century; The Idea of Progress; Impact of Electronic Publication on the Academic Community; Inside Academia; Interdisciplinarity and the Organization of Knowledge in Europe; Psychosocial Problems of Young People; Schooling in a Modern Europe; The Virtual University ?.

Members

Individuals (about 2,300) in 49 countries and territories:

• Egypt, South Africa.

• Canada, United States of America.

• China, Hong Kong/China, India, Iraq, Israel, Japan.

• Australia, New Zealand.

• Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein^*, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ukraine.

UNESCO NGO Section Data

Type of Relation with UNESCOConsulatative Status

Admission Date1992

Reclassification date2006

Programme sector: EDNo

Programme sector: SCYes

Programme sector: SHSNo

Programme sector: CLTNo

Programme sector: CIINo

Programme sector: BSPNo

Programme sector: AFRNo

History1988 Creation 1992 Category B 1996 Operational Relations (150 EX/ONG.2) (150 EX/Dec. 7.2) 2003 Renewal of operational relations (166 EX/38) (166 EX/Dec.9.2) 2006 Reclassification into formal consultative relations (174 EX/31 and 175 EX/38) (175 EX/Dec. 40)

Contribution to UNESCO's programmes 2006 : Admitted to former category B in 1992 and subsequently reclassified to operational relations in 1996, Academia Europaea cooperates with UNESCO in the realization of the Organization’s objectives particularly in the Science Sector. In particular, there have been a number of activities co-organized by UNESCO, Academia Europaea and other partners, including the following: • participation in the launching and programme activities of the UNESCO International Basic Science Programme; • participation in the Second World Science Forum, Budapest, 10-12 November 2005, organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in partnership with UNESCO and ICSU. Over the past several years, the collaboration between Academia Europaea and UNESCO provided the Organization with a valuable opportunity to work with a group of eminent scientists in areas of importance to programmes in the Science Sector. The activities carried out by Academia Europaea relate closely to UNESCO priorities regarding the dissemination of scientific information and capacity- building in science. In light of the consolidation of the cooperation between this Academy and UNESCO on science related activities, the Science Sector advocates the reclassification of the Academia Europaea into formal consultative relations.

Previous evaluation made by Programme sector concerned Evaluation made in Document 150 EXONG.2 in 1996: At the time of the Academia’s admission to the former category B in 1992, it had been invited to make a special effort to develop its cooperation with UNESCO and expand its presence in the Central and East European countries. Judging from what is known of this presence, the request does not seem to have been acted upon. Co-operation of a substantial nature has not been developed, either at Headquarters (social, human and natural sciences) or at the Venice office. The Academia represents a network of eminent scientists who are individually in regular contact with UNESCO, often by virtue of the functions or responsibilities which they exercise in other organizations. The Academia has not contributed directly to the Director-General’s consultations on the C/4 and C/5 documents nor to the Sexennial Report. Despite its shortcomings, and in view of the fact that contacts are at present under way with the Science Sector to determine how co-operation with the Academia might be organized, it is recommended that it be admitted to operational relations.

Keywords Primary education,Higher Education,Natural Sciences

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