Our thirty-second General Assembly adopted a Declaration on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, pledging to accelerate the achievement of equality, diversity and inclusion through personal leadership, institutional vigour and societal change.
The 32nd General Assembly today elected Rik Van de Walle (Rector of Ghent University) as our new President and five Directors complementing the Board to twelve Directors. It also adopted a position on the future of the European Research Area (ERA).
Our President Sir Jim McDonald (Principal & Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde) respectfully urges that the title of Commissioner-designate Mariya Gabriel’s portfolio is revised to ‘Research, Innovation, Education and Youth’.