Agence universitaire de la francophonie

LC control no.	nr 99030337
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Agence universitaire de la francophonie *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	AUF
See also	Predecessor: Agence francophone pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Beginning date	1998
Located	Montréal (Québec) Paris (France)
Found in	Partenariats d'entreprises et mondalisation, c1999: t.p. (Réseau thématique de recherche Entrepreneuriat de l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF)) Précis de télédétection, 1992- : v. 3, p. xi (Association des universités partiellement ou entièrement de langue française (AUPELF), devenue récemment Agence universitaire de la francophonie (AUF)) WWW site for AUF, viewed Mar. 4, 2005: (under Histoire: L'association AUPELF, devenue AUPELF-UREF et ensuite AUF, est née en septembre 1961) AUF website, January 29, 2020: banner (AUF, Agence universitaire de la francophonie) Historique (Association des universités entièrement ou partiellement de langue française (AUPELF) founded 13 September 1961 at conference in Montréal; AUPELF opened its first regional office in Paris in 1965 (that later became rectorate and central services of AUF, while the Bureau régional Europe de l'Ouest transferred to Belgium in 2002); in September 1987, at Sommet des chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement ayant en commun l'usage du français, a university project of exchanges known under the name of UREF was presented, with the idea to create a group of francophone university networks around research and training; AUPELF then took the name of AUPELF-UREF; at the Sommet de Dakar in 1989, AUPELF-UREF joined institutional Francophonie in becoming the direct manager of the Sommet de la Francophonie pour l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche; in 1998, for better visibility of Francophonie, the name was changed at the request of the secretary general of Francophonie, M. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, to AUF, Agence universitaire de la Francophonie; AUF celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2011) Contact (Services centraux - Montréal; Services centraux - Paris; Directions régionales (10))