UAI has been a member since 2002.
The International Union of Academies / Union Académique Internationale (UAI) is a global organization of national academies in the fields of the humanities and social sciences. Its aims are to initiate, recognize, foster and fund basic long-term international research projects. Created in 1919 in Paris with a general secretariat established in Brussels, the UAI currently comprises more than a hundred academies from 63 countries across all continents.