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    Since its founding in 1425, UCL has both reached out to the world and invited it in. Through student exchanges, hosting international professors and researchers, interuniversity partnerships, participation in European and global networks, and a long tradition of cooperation in international development, UCL has exerted influence throughout the world for nearly 600 years. UCL is a stabilizing force in an uncertain world. It prioritizes universal access to high-quality education and makes innovation the governing principle of its activities, teaching as much as in research. It creates synergies between its involvement in regional development and its international influence, enabling them to fuel each other. Its research reveals the complexity and provides perspective in a world that emphasizes the here and now.
    In June 2015, university authorities approved ‘Louvain 2020’, a strategic plan to guide UCL to the end of the decade. Designed with input from throughout the university, the plan addresses several areas, including high-quality course offerings, improving the university’s ranking as a research institution, reinforcing internationalization, intensifying regional cooperation, developing the ‘digital university,’ and promoting universal equality.
    The values on which UCL’s vision is based are openness to others and differences, solidarity, freedom, and respect. Faculty enjoy academic freedom enshrined in the constitution, specifically, freedom of thought in the pursuit of truth arrived scientifically and free from the undue influence of current trends. UCL is a cosmopolitan and intellectual human space whose diversity stimulates encounters between people of different backgrounds and with the world itself in the spirit of rational discussion and mutual enrichment. Its Christian tradition is a living heritage, a driving force of an authentic pluralism that benefits and respects all people regardless of their beliefs.
    UCL’s international involvement is not about mere statistics – numbers of exchanges, international students, and staff. It is about placing its openness to the world at the heart of the university’s missions. Indeed, teaching our students to think and act in both today’s and tomorrow’s worlds is to make them aware of and open to other cultures and to endow them with the ability to communicate and collaborate in an international and intercultural context. Innovating in research, education, and serving society – the university’s three primary missions – is to understand what is going on elsewhere in the world and think differently to find solutions.

    Catholic University of Louvain
    Founding year: 1425
    Website: Visit Website
    Number of students: 0
    Leadership: Vincent Blondel (Rector)
    Number of staff: 0
    Type: Universities

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    Address: Catholic University of Louvain, Place de l'Universite 1, Louvain la Neuve, 1348, Belgium



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