UCL partner institutions:
Académie universitaire 'Louvain'
The Académie universitaire ‘Louvain’ is a partnership between three universities: the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur (FUNDP), Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL) and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL).
Member of the network work together to seek common solutions for mutual problems, share knowledge and skills and have coordinated various Master’s in order to have a larger range of courses, programmes and foreign exchange opportunities on offer for students.
Together, the four partners of the Académie Universitaire ‘Louvain’ represent:
29 280 students (42% of the student population of the French-speaking Community of Belgium)
8 772 graduates (43,8% of the French-speaking Community)
271 PhDs (46,1% of the French-speaking Community)
(source: CREF 2006-2007)
3 663 813 books in the shared library catalogue entitled BOREAL (Bibliothèque on line du réseau de l’Académie Louvain).
Detailed information about the Académie universitaire ‘Louvain’ and its aims is available on its website: www.academielouvain.be
To find out more about the partner institutions, please use the links below:
• Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP)
• Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL)
• Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
Pôle Louvain
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Since March 2005, the Pôle Louvain officially groups together 22 partners involved in higher education, both academic and non-academic. The aim of the partnership is to create a better coordination between the members of the network, allowing students and staff to better profit from the specificities of each level of education.
In practice, partner institutions see to it that their curriculums are complimentary – especially the various ‘bridging programmes’ –, they co-organise educational activities and continuing education programmes, they exchange teachers and researchers and work together on social security issues and student services. The network encourages the collaboration between faculties, departments and institutes and allows the partners to participate in UCL research projects. A more practical advantage is that various infrastructures and services, such as libraries and cultural or sports facilities, can be shared.
End of 2008, the Pôle Louvain is composed of 21 entities: the three universities of the Académie universitaire ‘Louvain’, nine colleges of higher education, two higher institutes for architecture, six art schools and one adult education school. These are spread across campuses in seventeen different Walloon cities, amongst which Liège, Charleroi, Tournai, Brussels, Nivelles, etc.
For more information about the different partners of the Pôle Louvain, please consult their websites:
• Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (FUNDP)
• Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis (FUSL)
• Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
• Haute école Léonard de Vinci
• Haute école catholique du Luxembourg Blaise Pascal
• Haute école catholique Charleroi-Europe
• Haute école Galilée
• Haute école "Groupe ICHEC – ISC Saint-Louis – ISFSC"
• Haute Ecole Economique et Technique EPHEC
• Haute Ecole de Namur
• Haute Ecole Roi Baudouin
• Haute Ecole Libre du Hainaut occidental
• Institut supérieur d’architecture Saint-Luc Bruxelles
• Institut supérieur d’architecture Saint-Luc Wallonie
• Institut des arts de diffusion - IAD
• ESA Institut Supérieur de Musique et de Pédagogie
• ESA Saint-Luc Bruxelles
• ESA Ecole de recherche Graphique
• ESA Saint-Luc Liège
• ESA Saint-Luc Tournai
• Ecole de promotion sociale EPHEC
Our Sister University: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
www.kuleuven.be
A rapprochement policy has been put in place between UCL and the KULeuven (Louvain, Flanders). The respective rectors and executive boards regularly meet up and the collaboration between the two universities has already resulted in numerous shared achievements. Civil engineers, for example, now receive a joint degree from both universities. On an international level, UCL and KULeuven participate in missions together and in the field of research, the institutions are engaged in cutting-edge research programmes. Finally, the two universities will be co-hosting the “Bologna 2009” summit, which will unite the European ministers of higher education in April 2009.
University Hospitals
Two university hospitals are linked to UCL:
• Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc
• Cliniques universitaires Mont-Godinne
NGOs
Louvain développement
