NGOs maintaining official relations with UNESCO

ACADEMIA EUROPAEA

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Aims
  Academia Europaea aims at fostering and supporting excellence in academic research and education spheres in Europe. To achieve these goals the Academy makes recommendations to national governments and international agencies, concerning matters affecting science, scholarship and academic life in the region. It also encourages interdisciplinary and international research in areas of learning, particularly in relation to European issues. Additionally it identifies topics of trans-European importance to science and scholarship, and proposes appropriate action to ensure that these issues are adequately studied.

Priority issues: Education; Europe; higher education.
Activities
  Academia Europaea covers disciplines of the natural sciences and engineering, which are of direct concern to the European society. It organizes various workshops, conferences and expert meetings and also encourages research projects and other similar interdisciplinary activities with a genuine international dimension.
It provides independent expert opinions and advice.

The 15th annual meeting of the Academia Europaea held in Graz, Austria in September 2003, on the theme “What makes us human?”.
The 16th Annual conference of the Academia Europaea held in Helsinki (Finland) from 2 – 4 September 2004, on the theme “Connecting European peoples?”.
Keywords
  Higher Education; Natural Sciences
Publications
  ‘European Review’ (ER), quarterly journal.
'The Tree', in-house newsletter.
Proceedings and Reports of Conference.
 
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