This colloquium is an event which is open to the whole economic, political and associational world as well as the general public. With its 572 active members representing the entire range of university subjects in France, the IUF has mobilized in order to enlighten society about the problematic of resources by means of two days of analyses and debates.
At the Rio Summit in 1992, the question of resources was clearly posed for the first time at this level and triggered an unprecedented echo. Twenty years later, it is one of the issues which is systematically evoked in every sphere of activity and decision-making and which largely determines the political, scientific and economic agendas of the great nations.
The term – resources – is also a common denominator for the whole range of university subjects. With a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry – Jean-Marie Lehn – as its president, the IUF Anniversary Colloquium makes room for every academic discipline in the debate on the issue of resources.