Worldwide Universities Network - Introduction

Introduction

Founded in 2000, the Worldwide Universities Network is an invitation-only, nonprofit group of universities from Australia, Canada, China, the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The network provides for collaboration among its members, principally by organizing online, interactive video-seminars (although traditional conferences are also organized) and by financing exchanges of research students and staff. It has also developed two research-based Master's degree programmes as well as other online training courses. These courses are written jointly by academic staff from several of the participating universities.

Initially, the WUN comprised ten universities, but has since expanded. The current members are (in alphabetical order):

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Auckland
  • University of Bergen
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Cape Town
  • University of Leeds
  • Nanjing University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • University of Rochester
  • University of Sheffield
  • University of Southampton
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Washington, Seattle
  • University of Western Australia
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison
  • University of York
  • Zhejiang University

The World Universities Network's current chair is Dr Mark Emmert, of University of Washington, Seattle

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