The APRU Senior International Leaders’ Meeting 2024 represented this year’s key event where the Senior International Leaders (SIL) from APRU’s member universities could connect and exchange ideas on how to overcome a range of limits by leveraging lifelong learning, scholar and student mobility, and technologies in teaching and learning. Held under the theme Learning without Limits and hosted by the Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, October 9–11, the international meeting involved 88 attendees, including 32 Senior International Leaders and 38 Provosts / Vice Presidents from 44 universities across 16 economies, which made it one of the most-attended and diverse SIL Meetings ever.

High on the agenda the discussions took a deep dive into the many challenges that universities face globally including declining birth rates, aging demographics, geopolitical risks, economic security, research integrity, regional disparity, globalization, and the advent of new technologies represented by AI.