General information

The Academic Cooperation Association (ACA) is an independent European organisation dedicated to the management, analysis and improvement of education and training co-operation within Europe and between Europe and other parts of the world. Its main focus is on higher education, but it also covers other education sectors, and training.

The Association was founded in July 1993 with the legal status of a non-profit international association under Belgian law. Its secretariat is located in Brussels, within easy reach of the European Union institutions.

ACA is a membership organisation. There are currently 20 European and 4 non-European (associate) members, all of which are major nationally-based organisations responsible for the promotion and funding of education co-operation in their countries. Between them, they run hundreds of co-operation and exchange programmes. Their combined staff, each of them a specialist in international education, amount to several thousand, and their combined budgets amount to over a billion Euro.

ACA is active in a wide range of fields such as the management of co-operation and exchange programmes in education and training; research into and analysis of all aspects of internationalisation in education, by means of studies, surveys and evaluations, consultancy for private and public bodies, advocacy, quality assurance activities, publications, seminars, conferences and much more.

For further information on ACA, you may also download the association's latest Annual Reports.