Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi hosted in January a Session of the Union Académique Internationale (International Union of Academies). The federation is composed of national and international academies from more than 60 countries working in the field of Humanities and the Social Sciences. Its purpose is to encourage cooperation to advance studies through collaborative research and joint publications in those branches of humanities and social sciences promoted by the Academies and Institutions represented in the UAI which include philology, archeology, history, moral sciences and political sciences. Since 1919, the number of projects sponsored, supported or supervised by the UAI has steadily increased. From the first three projects (Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Alchemical texts and Works of Grotius), the IUA came to the number of 76 projects. and Jiří Beneš.
On January 1, 2013, Ireland began its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union. Irish Presidency for the seventh time coincides with the 40t" anniversary of its membership of the European Union. Some issues on the Irish Presidency's agenda include the following: Finalizing agreement on the Multiannual Financial Framework that will determine the EU budget from 2014-2020. Also, policy issues of direct national importance to Ireland including reform Horizon 2020, the EU's future framework programme for research and innovation. and Anna Vosečková.