The Catholic University of Leuven or Louvain was founded in 1834 in Mechelen as the Catholic University of Belgium,and moved its seat to the town of Leuven in 1835,changing its name to Catholic University of Leuven. In 1968,it was split into two universities,the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Universitécatholique de Louvain,following tensions between the Dutch and French-speaking student bodies.
The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Dutch and English-speaking research university in Brussels,Belgium. It has four campuses:Brussels Humanities,Science and Engineering Campus,Brussels Health Campus,Brussels Technology Campus and Brussels Photonics Campus.
Frank Ignace Georgette Vandenbroucke is a Belgian-Flemish academic and politician of Vooruit who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health and Social Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Alexander De Croo since 2020.
The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Associatie Kortrijk,or Kulak for short,is a university satellite campus of the KU Leuven in the city of Kortrijk (Courtrai) in the Belgian province of West Flanders and is therefore also officially a Dutch-speaking institution.
The American College of the Immaculate Conception,or the American College of Louvain is a former Roman Catholic theological seminary in Leuven,the Kingdom of Belgium (Belgium) in Europe. Founded in 1857,it was operated by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in the federal national capital city of Washington,D.C.,to prepare European students as deacons and priests for service in the United States and to provide a residence for Americans clergy studying at the nearby Catholic University of Louvain / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Willy F. Vande Walle is a Belgian academic,author,Japanologist and Sinologist.
Pieter De Somer was a Belgian physician and biologist. He studied medicine from 1935 up to 1942 at the Catholic University of Leuven. He did research and later became a professor at the Department of medicine,where he specialised in microbiology and immunology. In 1968,he became the first rector of the Flemish Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and he remained rector until his death in 1985.
Science and technology in Flanders,being the Flemish Community and more specifically the northern region of Belgium (Europe),is well developed with the presence of several universities and research institutes. These are strongly spread over all Flemish cities,from Kortrijk and Bruges in the Western side,over Ghent as a major university center alongside Antwerp,Brussels and Leuven to Hasselt and Diepenbeek in the Eastern side.
Marc Van Ranst is a Belgian public health physician and Professor of Virology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Rega Institute for Medical Research. On 1 May 2007,he was appointed as Interministerial comissionar by the Federal Government of Belgium to prepare Belgium for an influenza pandemic.
Koen Lenaerts,Baron Lenaerts is a Belgian jurist and the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union. He is also a Professor of European Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and was a member of the Coudenberg group,a Belgian federalist think tank.
Raymond Francis Collins is an American Roman Catholic priest of the Diocese of Providence,and an exegete of the New Testament. Recently retired,he has taught as a professor at a variety of institutions of higher education,including most prominently Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Catholic University of America. He also served the American College of the Immaculate Conception as its ninth rector.
Mark Jozef Albert,Baron Waer is a Belgian physician,biomedical scientist,and former Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
The Leuven Faculty of Theology was a branch of the Catholic University of Leuven,founded in 1834 in Mechelen by the bishops of Belgium as the Catholic University of Belgium,that moved its seat to the town of Leuven in 1835,changing its name to Catholic University of Leuven.
The city of Leuven,in the former Duchy of Brabant,has been the seat of four universities:
Henri Maria Dymphna AndréLaurent "Rik" Torfs is a Belgian canon law scholar and media personality. He is a former Senator for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party in the Belgian Federal Parliament and a former Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.
KU Leuven is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven,Belgium. Founded in 1425,it is the oldest university in Belgium and the oldest university in the Low Countries.
Didier Pollefeyt is a Belgian catholic theologian,full professor at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies and vice rector for education policy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Jan Roegiers (1944–2013) was a professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,and also university archivist,librarian and curator. He specialised in early modern academic history,and in particular the history of the pre-1797 University of Leuven. During his lifetime he was "generally regarded as one of the most authoritative voices in the world of academic history,archive and library science and the heritage sector in Belgium." He is also credited with giving the newly established Flemish university a sense of historical continuity with Leuven's past.
Marc Depaepe is a professor of pedagogy science at the KU Leuven and was from 2013 until 2017 vice- and campus rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
