At the invitation of the Secretariat of the Global University Network for Innovation, Dr. Yue Kan as the representative of the Secretariat of GUNI-AP participated in the 6th International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education from May 12 to 15, 2013.
    The theme of this conference was “Let's build transformative knowledge to drive social change”. Representatives from UNESCO, UNU, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, the Department of Economy and Knowledge of Catalonia, and the member institutions of GUNI attended the conference. During the conference, Dr. Yue Kan met with Ms. Cristina Escriga, Executive Director of the GUNI Secretariat and Ms. Angels Cortina, Coordinator of the GUNI Secretariat, to report on activities carried out by GUNI-AP and discuss future plans and development.
 

    GUNI, an international network, was created in 1999 by UNESCO, the United Nations University (UNU) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BarcelonaTech (UPC), after UNESCO's World Conference on Higher Education (WCHE) in 1998, to give continuity to and facilitate the implementation of its main decisions. As a regional branch, GUNI-AP was jointly launched by the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education and UNU in collaboration with 8 renowned universities from 7 Asia-Pacific countries and ASAIHL in 2002. The Secretariat of GUNI-AP is located at the College of Education, Zhejiang University. Professor Yunhe Pan and Prof Wei Yang, the former President of Zhejiang University, have severed as presidents of GUNI-AP and also attended the successive Board Meeting and the International Barcelona Conference on Higher Education.