UNION ACADÉMIQUE INTERNATIONALE

The relative abundance of research funding through both national and international research councils in the decades after the Second World War has provided the UAI with a new and major role as evaluator and guarantor of high standards in collaborative research in the traditional humanities. By the 1970s, UAI has developed a formidable reputation for its strict expert-driven system of project evaluation. For a project to be adopted by the UAI, the project directors will have to submit the project first to at least one national academy for approval and once this has been given, they will need to find partner academies to co-sponsor the project. The project is then submitted to the New Projects Committee of the UAI. The latter will appoint expert assessors to scrutinize every aspect of the application. Given the fact that all delegates to the UAI are academicians in the countries which they represent, experts in most fields of the Humanities are not difficult to find to conduct the..

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Primary location: Bruxelles Belgium