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The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was founded one hundred years ago, in 1907, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

Publicly the UIA is best known for the Yearbook of International Organizations; the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential; the International Congress Calendar; and its journal Transnational Associations. [Read more about our activities]

In its on-going efforts to facilitate understanding of the nature and complexities of the international community of organizations the UIA has become a cutting-edge technical centre with high standing in the academic, governmental, and business domains.

The UIA has consultative status with UNESCO and with ECOSOC.

Historical background

The UIA was founded on the 1st June 1907, in Brussels, Belgium, under the name Central Office of International Associations, by Henri La Fontaine, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1913, and Paul Otlet, Secretary-General of the then International Institute of Bibliography, which subsequently became the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID), and with which UIA activities were closely associated.

The Association was officially founded under patronage of the Belgian government on the 29th January 1908, and became a federation under its present name in 1910 at the 1st World Congress of International Organizations. It was registered as an international association with scientific aims under the Belgian law of the 25th October 1919.

In its early years, the UIA collaborated closely with the Institut international de la paix, in Monaco, which had produced the 1905, 1906 and 1907 editions of the Annuaire de la Vie internationale, which subsequently evolved into the Yearbook of International Organizations. In 1951 a special ECOSOC resolution established cooperation between the United Nations and the UIA for the preparation of the Yearbook of International Organizations.

Early work also contributed to the creation of the League of Nations and the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation (IICI), the predecessor of UNESCO.

Website:www.uia.be