The University of Finance and Administration (VŠFS) will host the meeting of the International Association of University Presidents (IAUP) in September 2014. It is the first time that the management of this prestigious organization decided to organize the regular meeting of the Executive Committee in the Czech Republic. The meeting will be held in Prague on September 12 – 14, 2014. For more information about the event, please go to www.vsfs.cz/iaup.
Bohuslava Šenkýřová, VŠFS rector, was offered a follow-up candidature of her membership in the Executive Committee of the association. The election of the new management will take place in Yokohama in June.
IAUP (founded in 1964) is an association of presidents, rectors and university chief executives from more than a hundred countries. Its main goal is to systematically enhance the quality of university education and to stress the significance of universities as supporters and initiators of international cooperation and communication among World Powers and Third World Countries. IAUP through its bodies and active membership in significant world institutions (e.g. UNESCO or numerous transnational trust companies) also fulfils the role of a mediator in the area related to the elimination of world conflicts, poverty reduction and improvement in the standard of living in developing countries. The tools to achieve IAUP strategic visions include a university educational process and cooperation among world universities in terms of teaching quality, scientific research projects and joint communication introduced to a regional level.
For more information about IAUP, please go to http://iaup.org.
