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The University of Leuven Prof. Dr. Bart De Moor Vice-rector International Policy Where science meets history and culture Contents 1. Mission 2. Geography 3. History 4. Organisation 5. Budget, facts and figures 4. Education 5. Science 6.

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The University of Leuven

  • Prof. Dr. Bart De Moor

Vice-rector International Policy Where science meets history and culture

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Contents

  • 1. Mission
  • 2. Geography
  • 3. History
  • 4. Organisation
  • 5. Budget, facts and figures
  • 4. Education
  • 5. Science
  • 6. Tech Transfer
  • 7. Internationalisation
  • 8. Conclusions
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Leuven in Europe

Distance

(kilometre)

Travelling time

(hours/train)

Brussels 30 1/2 Paris 340 2 Amsterdam 220 3 London 350 2 Berlin 750 7

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Leuven in Flanders & Belgium

F L A N D E R S

Leuven

W A L L O N I A

Brussels

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Google Map of Leuven

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History

1425 foundation 1797 abolition by French authorities 1816 re-established 1911 start of courses in Dutch 1970 split of the university:

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Université Catholique de Louvain

2009: welcome !

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Famous professors

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Doctors h.c.

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Doctors h.c.

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Doctors h.c.

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Doctors h.c.

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Mission statement

– Excellence in scientific research – Excellence in academic education – Service to society

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Group Science, Technology and Engineering Group Humanities and Social Sciences Group Biomedical Sciences 3 faculties Medicine Pharmaceutical Sciences Kinesiology and Rehabilit. Sciences 8 faculties Law Arts Theology Canon Law Philosophy Social Sciences Business and Economics Psychology and Educat. Sciences 3 faculties Science Engineering Bioscience Engineering

Organisation Chart K.U.Leuven

14 departments for scientific research

Three „vertical‟ group-vice-rectors Four „horizontal‟ vice-rectors: Education, Research, Students, International Policy

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Science, Engineering and Technology

  • Faculties:
  • Science
  • Engineering
  • Bio-Engineering

Arenberg Doctoral School

Information, Matter, Energy, Life, Habitat

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Humanities and Social Sciences

Faculties

  • Philosophy
  • Theology
  • Canon Law
  • Law
  • Economics
  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Literature
  • Psychology
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Group Biomedical Sciences

Academi emic Ho Hospital tal

Faculties:

  • Medical school
  • Farmacology
  • Sports

Doctoral School

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Budget

  • Total University Budget: approx. 600 MEuro

– 44% direct public funding – 36% competitive public funding – 18% competitive private funding (private contract research) – 2% other income Research expenditures 2008: 296 MEuro

  • Total University Hospitals Budget: approx. 650 MEuro
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Staff

1423 4410 2784 8617 8704

1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 Academic staff Researchers Administrative and technical staff TOTAL Hospital

Staff FTE

2006

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Students and education

Students: 34,940 (02/02/2009) BA 53 %, IMA 24 % AMA 8 % Doctoral Programmes 11 % Teacher Training 2.5 % Other 1.5 % Largest student populations: Medicine 5,762 Law 4,178 Econ&Bus 4,043

  • Litt. & Arts

4,003 Engineering 3,814

55% female; 15 % first year

PhD Initial master Bachelor

Advanced master

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Research key indicators

  • Scientific publications (2007):
  • 3972 (Web of Science)
  • = 47,5% of Flemish total
  • PhD‟s awarded (2008): 530
  • Spin Offs: 22 over last three years (>80 in total)
  • Patents awarded (2007): 144
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50 100 150 200 250

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD LUNDS UNIVERSITET KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON ECOLE POLYTECHN. FED. DE LAUSANNE KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH UPPSALA UNIVERSITET THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH RWTH AACHEN TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN UNIVERSITEIT GENT UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITEIT

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K.U.Leuven Research in Europe

# participations in EU‟s 6th Framework Programme

Source: Admin. Science & Innovation, Fl. Gov – Febr 2007 report – 55% of FP6 budget allocated

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K.U.Leuven in Europe (ranking)

10000 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000

UNIV CAMBRIDGE UNIV OXFORD UNIV COLL LONDON IMPERIAL COLL LONDON UNIV UTRECHT UNIV HELSINKI ETH ZURICH KATHOLIEKE UNIV LEUVEN LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIV MUNCHEN KAROLINSKA INST STOCKHOLM UNIV EDINBURGH UNIV AMSTERDAM UNIV MANCHESTER UNIV PARIS VI PIERRE & MARIE CURIE UNIV MILANO LUNDS UNIV KINGS COLL UNIV LONDON KOBENHAVNS UNIV RUPRECHT KARLS UNIV HEIDELBERG UNIV ZURICH

size-dependent Brute Force impact indicator

Leiden 2007 ranking of European Universities

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IMEC & K.U.Leuven

  • One of the largest independent R&D
  • rganizations in the world with a mission to

perform research and development, ahead of industrial needs by 3 to 10 years, in microelectronics, nanotechnology, design methods and technologies for ICT systems

  • Rev.: est. 270M€
  • Staff: approx. 1600 ( > 1000 PhD‟s, > 52

nationalities, worldwide partners)

  • Close partnership: Ac@IMEC-Leuven, hosting

150 PhD students, 20 professors and postdocs

  • n K.U.Leuven campus

4800 m2 Clean Room 1750 m2 Class 1 200 mm pilot line 3200 m2 Clean Room 300 mm pilot line Ball Room, Clean sub-FA

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Leuven Research and Development

Activity Area 1: (Applied) Research for Companies Activity Area 2: Technology Transfer via Patents & Licensing Activity Area 3: Generation of Spin-Off Companies cross-fertilisation network

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Creating spinoffs

Basic Research Strategic Valorisation Patents Licenses BOF IOF FP6/7 SME

Direct Contract Research

KUL Research group spinoff NV FFF BA/VC

founders employees Fase 1 Fase 2

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Leuven Research & Development

development of business plan protection and exploitation of intellectual property finding investors negotiation & legal support finding infrastructure management of growth of the spin-off company stimulating networking & clustering IOF Industrial Research Fund A bridge between university and industry Project types:

  • leverage platforms
  • knowledge building platforms

People:

  • industrial research fellows
  • evaluated every 5 years
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Gemma Frisius Fund

  • Creation:

– October 1997, cfr. Flemish decree 1995

  • Partnership:

– K.U. Leuven R&D – KBC - Investco – Fortis - VIV

  • Complementarity:

– Incubator K.U. Leuven R&D, detection + b-plan – Equity – financial expertise KBC – Fortis

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Examples

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Systems and control Datamining Systems Biology Bioinformatics

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IPTEC Award

2006 Stanford 2007 Tsinghua 2008 Leuven

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Regional development

Research climate @ university

  • Major funding sources: IAP, GOA, CoE, Methusalem
  • IOF
  • Networks: BioSCENTer

LRD

  • TTO
  • Spinoff tradition
  • Gemma Frisius
  • Entrepreneurial: University wide master course: ‘Initiatie tot ondernemen’

Leuven High-Tech Valley

  • Local networks: L.inc, DSP Valley, L-SEC, …
  • Interregional: ELAT,…

Flanders

  • Science policy: Budget growing since 1995
  • Strategic Research Institutes: IMEC (nano), VIB (biotech), IBBT (broadband)
  • Competence poles: FMTC (Mechatronics), Flanders Drive, Flanders-Bio,…
  • role of IWT: spinoff kick-off projects (up to 65 % funding)
  • government seed-money/VC incentives

Belgium

  • ‘defiscalisation’-measures for R&D in companies
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International

4,402 international students (02/02/2009)

2,248 EU students

967 The Netherlands 185 Italy 182 Spain 166 Germany 109 Poland

2,164 Non EU students Asia: 342 China, 178 India, 90 Turkey, 88 Iran, 81 Russia Africa: 64 Nigeria, 59 Ethiopia, 48 Cameroon, 34 Congo N-Am: 182 US, 49 Canada Lat-Am: 42 Braz, 33 Col, 32 Ecu, 22 Mex/Per, 16 Chi, 11 Arg 12,5% international students overall 33% of advanced MA‟s and PhD‟s

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International Office

3 units

  • International Policy

– Policy advice to university management – Institutional agreements and networks – European programmes: Erasmus

* Development Co-operation

– Development human resources, joint research, capacity building in North and South – Finances: VLIR-UOS, IRO

  • International admissions and mobility
  • admissionprocess, status, scholarships
  • credential evaluation
  • intercultural process / Vesta
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International networks

Our objective: to be a prominent centre

  • f research in

Europe 2002: 20 European research- intensive universities 1985 : 37 European multidisciplinary universities Our objective: to be a prominent centre

  • f higher education in

Europe

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VIP

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VIP

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Concluding

“Either we further strengthen our international contacts or we curtail the ambition of being a top level research university. There is simply no other way.”

K.U.Leuven delegation member during recent mission to India, 24 April – 3 May, 2008 (in “De Morgen”)