AC3: Mission

The International Commission for Acoustics’ purposes  are to promote international development and collaboration in all fields of acoustics including research, development, education, and standardisation.

The means for the Commission to fulfill its mission are:

• to maintain close contacts with national and regional acoustical societies and associations as well as other relevant professional organisations and seek consensus in matters of mutual interest; ii to provide an information service on societies, congresses, symposia, etc., research and education organisations in the field of acoustics; iii to take a pro- active role in co-ordinating the main international meetings within acoustics;
• to convene the International Congresses on Acoustics in accordance with the Commission’s guidelines and to act as the International Advisory Committee for these congresses;
• to sponsor or co-sponsor other topical and special international conferences normally in close cooperation with national and/or regional organisations and to give financial support (grants or guarantees), as a grant to organising committees for such meetings or as a travel grant to participants.