On 17 and 18 November Ghent University hosts the VIth U4 Rectors' Meeting. During the annual symposium the rectors decide upon the strategy and agenda of the coming U4 year. To this end the four academic clusters and the 5th cluster institional management present their work-in-progress and future actions.
Major achievements of the last year have been a.o. the approval and implementation of the U4 DAAD project, the closing of the first cycle of the Academic Leadership programme, the successful Winter School 'Antiquity' in Palermo, and the second blossoming Summer School 'Ageing Brain' in Ghent.
Within the margin of the rectors' meeting several clusters and working groups take the opportunity to meet and discuss further actions.
From 13 to 14 November 2013, the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen will host the first International Conference on Resource Efficiency in Interorganizational Networks (ResEff).
Some 50 social scientists from the U4 network universities (comprising professors, postdocs and PhD students from Gent, Groningen, Göttingen and Uppsala) gathered in Göttingen for a conference on 12-14 October 2012. In what was termed a "bazaar conference" (focusing more on existing research than a single topic) they looked for common research interests and seeked to establish areas for future cooperation.
On 7 and 8 October Groningen hosts the Vth Rectors' Meeting. During this two-day meeting all clusters and working groups will present their work-in-progress and their future ambitions to the gathered rectors.