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May 20, 2021
Eric Lambin appointed to the European Commission
Eric Lambin, professor in the Faculty of Science and the UCLouvain Earth and Life Institute, is one of four women and three men appointed as chief scientific advisors by the European Commission. This position allows him to have direct influence on how science is taken into account in...
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May 19, 2021
QS 2021 ranking: UCLouvain leads again
The latest edition of the QS Ranking by Subject ranks UCLouvain as the leading university in all fields in French-speaking Belgium.
The QS Ranking by Subject has the specificity of ranking the world’s universities, not overall, but by field of study and by subject (discipline). It...
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April 21, 2021
UCLouvain recognised for its transition policy
UCLouvain ranks between 101st and 200th out of the 1,115 participating universities worldwide (and 1st in Belgium) in the latest Times Higher Education ranking in terms of sustainable development objectives. Why did UCLouvain participate in this new ranking? ‘To firmly commit the...
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April 02, 2021
Circle U. gets a legal identity
The seven partner universities have set up the Circle U. AISBL to frame the long-term collaboration in the alliance.
On Tuesday 30 March, the Circle U. partner universities established Circle U. AISBL as an international not-for-profit organisation under Belgian law. The official signing...
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April 02, 2021
Mapping policy for how the EU can reduce its impact on...
EU imports of products contribute significantly to deforestation in other parts of the world. In a new study, published in One Earth, researchers from several universities worldwide, among them University of Louvain, evaluated thousands of policy proposals for how the EU could reduce this...
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