Amsterdam • Barcelona • Cambridge • Edinburgh • Freiburg • Genève • Heidelberg • Helsinki • Karolinska • Leiden • Leuven ICL (London) • UCL (London) • Lund • Milano • LMU München • Oxford • UPMC (Paris) • Paris-Sud • Strasbourg • Utrecht • Zürich

DESTINATION EUROPE !Europe : a vibrant place for frontier research

Prof Dr Kurt Deketelaere

Secretary-General

League of European Research Universities (LERU)

Professor of Law

University of Leuven www.leru.org – www.kurtdeketelaere.be

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Amsterdam • Barcelona • Cambridge • Edinburgh • Freiburg • Genève • Heidelberg • Helsinki • Karolinska • Leiden • Leuven ICL (London) • UCL (London) • Lund • Milano • LMU München • Oxford • UPMC (Paris) • Paris-Sud • Strasbourg • Utrecht • Zürich

League of European Research Universities

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Universiteit van Amsterdam

Universitat de Barcelona

University of Cambridge

University of Edinburgh

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Université de Genève

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Helsingin yliopisto (University of Helsinki)

Universiteit Leiden

KU Leuven

Imperial College London

University College London

Lunds universitet

Università degli Studi di Milano

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

University of Oxford

Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

Université Paris-Sud 11

Université de Strasbourg

Universiteit Utrecht

Universität Zürich

Amsterdam • Barcelona • Cambridge • Edinburgh • Freiburg • Genève • Heidelberg • Helsinki • Karolinska • Leiden • Leuven ICL (London) • UCL (London) • Lund • Milano • LMU München • Oxford • UPMC (Paris) • Paris-Sud • Strasbourg • Utrecht • Zürich

League of European Research Universities• 550,000+ students/50,000+ PhD students• MA/PhD degrees granted/year: 55,000/12,000• 55,000 academic staff/55,000 non-academic staff• €5 BN+ total research budget• €300 M+ EU projects• 20%+ of ERC grants• 230+ Nobel Prizes and Field Medals Research environment : people / infrastructure / funding / projects / publications /

spin-offs, etc !

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Amsterdam • Barcelona • Cambridge • Edinburgh • Freiburg • Genève • Heidelberg • Helsinki • Karolinska • Leiden • Leuven ICL (London) • UCL (London) • Lund • Milano • LMU München • Oxford • UPMC (Paris) • Paris-Sud • Strasbourg • Utrecht • Zürich

A few LERU examples

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Amsterdam • Barcelona • Cambridge • Edinburgh • Freiburg • Genève • Heidelberg • Helsinki • Karolinska • Leiden • Leuven ICL (London) • UCL (London) • Lund • Milano • LMU München • Oxford • UPMC (Paris) • Paris-Sud • Strasbourg • Utrecht • Zürich

LERU and EU R&I&E Policy 2014-2020

• Completion of the European Research Area ! • Funding of Excellent Research (Horizon 2020 : ERC, MC,

Grand Societal Challenges) ! • Modernization of Higher Education Systems in Europe (cf EIT) ! Full support of LERU ! Be in Europe in 2014 !

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