News from IARU

Making Universities Sustainable Conference

Written on 06 October 2014.

The "Making Universities Sustainable Conference", 22-24 October 2014 in Copenhagen, is a unique opportunity to learn more about the experiences, cases, recommendations and challenges of the ten IARU universities. Meet, learn and share experiences on key themes in making universities sustainable with other sustainability professionals.
See the programme and sign up at: climate.ku.dk/green_campus/sustainableuniversities.

The conference is a side event to the scientific congress Sustainability Science Congress 2014.

7th year of the Global Summer Program (GSP) concluded

Written on 22 September 2014.

The 2014 GSP season has ended. From June to August, more than 300 IARU students participated in one of the 20 courses offered by the ten partner universities. Behind the scene, GSP Coordinators worked hard to make another successful Global Summer Program happen. They met on 22-23 September in Oxford to review the activities and look into the further development of the program. The 2015 GSP courses will be advertised on the IARU website in mid-December.

GSP-coordinators

Santander continues to support IARU students with mobility grants

Written on 01 September 2014.

Banco Santander has renewed its commitment to provide scholarships to IARU students. The IARU-Santander Global Summer Program (GSP) Scholarships contribute significantly to enabling student mobility among the partners institutions and thus to the success of GSP. The agreement signing ceremony took place during the “3rd Universia International Rectors Meeting” in July in Rio de Janeiro.

IARU-Santander

Santander Signing Ceremony 2014
From left to right: Dr. José Ramón Narro Robles (Rector, National Autonomous University of Mexico), Prof. Mr. Zhang Yan (Executive Vice-President, PKU), Mr. Emilio Botín (Chairman, Santander), Prof. Tan Chorh Chuan (President, NUS), Prof. Peter Salovey (President, Yale), Prof. Andrew Hamilton (Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford), Prof. Bernhard Eitel (Rector, University of Heidelberg)