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KU Leuven
Situated in the heart of Western Europe, KU Leuven has been a centre of learning for almost six centuries. Founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V, KU Leuven bears the double honour of being the oldest existent Catholic university in the world and the oldest university in the Low Countries. In a short time, it grew into one of the largest and most renowned universities in Europe. Some of its famous academic scholars include the humanist Desiderius Erasmus, the philologist, legal scholar, and historian Justus Lipsius, the mathematician Gemma Frisius, the cartographer Gerard Mercator, the father of modern anatomy, Andreas Vesalius, and the chemist Pieter Jan Minckelers. Such a rich history of nearly six hundred years has provided KU Leuven with its own dynamic international dimension. Today, international co-operation is regarded as essential for a modern university. Top-level research is judged according to international standards and implies interaction, co-operation, and exchange, both of researchers and results. As such, KU Leuven is a charter member of the League of European Research Universities, and European surveys rank KU Leuven among the top ten European universities in terms of its scholarly output. Likewise with regard to teaching, several quality surveys demonstrate that KU Leuven stands on par with internationally respected institutions in a large number of fields.
At present, KU Leuven caters to more than 31,000 students, around 12% of whom are international students from more than 120 nations. In terms of its personnel, there are 5,287 academic staff, 2,730 administrative and technical staff, and 8,172 university hospital staff members. With regard to its physical facilities, the university occupies a total area of 1,058,445 square metres and it has a total of 26,606 rooms. On the academic side, the university is composed of fourteen faculties, fifty departments and about 240 sub-departments. Further, its network of thirty auxiliary libraries now houses a total of 4.3 million volumes, 14,500 magazines and journals, and 7,492 full text electronic magazines. And concerning its medical facilities, KU Leuven supports five hospitals and three affiliated hospitals, with a total of 2,057 hospital beds for the acutely ill.
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- Centre for High Temperature Processes and Sustainable Materials Management
- Department of Materials Engineering
Supported by the SIM2 KU Leuven Consortium & the Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling.
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