German Rectors' Conference

[1] The HRK deals with all issues relating to the role and tasks of higher education institutions in academia and society, especially teaching and studying, research, innovation and transfer, scientific further training, internationalisation, and university self-administration and governance.

[2] The German Rectors' Conference is managed and represented externally by a nine-member Executive Board.

Fundamental decisions and recommendations are made by the General Assembly (formerly the Plenum), which meets twice a year, and by the Senate.

[3] The HRK's financial and legal entity is the Foundation for the Promotion of the German Rectors' Conference.

[4] Its library has one of the largest special collections on higher education and science policy in the Federal Republic of Germany, with over 70,000 monographs, 800 current journals and the printed lecture directories of all German universities since 1945.