KU Leuven Association

Belgian higher education association led by KU Leuven, the Catholic University of Leuven founded in 1425, which brings the university together with the Flemish university colleges UC Leuven-Limburg, Odisee, Thomas More, LUCA School of Arts and Vives in a network covering much of Flanders. Coordinates degree programmes, quality assurance, research policy and library and student services across its members, and KU Leuven itself teaches pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, biomedical sciences and bioscience engineering with the Leuven university hospitals and runs large drug discovery and biomedical research programmes.