On May 22nd 2015 the Alps-Adriatic Rectors´ Conference (AARC) has met at Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt under the chairmanship of Rector Oliver Vitouch and Vice Rector Cristina Beretta.
Also in his position as chairman of the Alps-Adriatic Council of the AAA, Carinthia´s Governor Peter Kaiser welcomed the participants and suggested an even stronger partnership between the AAA and the AARC by using the TCP on Higher Education as an interface for
project-related cooperation.
In the course of the meeting “Istvan Szécheny University of Györ (HUN) and the Universities of Novi Pazar (SRB) and Sarajevo (BIH) were welcomed as new AARC-members. Now the AARC, which was founded in 1979, represents a network of 39 universities from Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Serbia and Slovenia. For the first time, projects were presented in a “Shared Market Place”. One of the AARCS´ future goals is an increased number of EU-co-financed projects.
Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt took over the presidency of the AARC from University of Tuzla (BIH). At the end of 2015 it will be handed over to Univerza na Primorskem in Koper (SLO).
For more information on the AARC visit http://www.alps-adriatic.net/