KU Leuven

Catholic University of Leuven

Belgium

Additional Information

KU Leuven Engage:
https://www.kuleuven.be/engage/english/index.html

Contact us

https://www.kuleuven.be/engage/english/contact

Summary

KU Leuven (founded in 1425) is an autonomous university. From its Christian view of the world and the human, it endeavours to be a place for open discussion of social, philosophical and ethical issues.
KU Leuven offers its students an academic education based on high-level research, with the aim of preparing them to assume their social responsibilities.
KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied research
KU Leuven encourages personal initiative and critical reflection in a culture of idea exchange, cooperation, solidarity and academic freedom. It pursues a proactive diversity policy for its students and staff.
KU Leuven aims to actively participate in public and cultural debate and in the advancement of a knowledge-based society. It puts its expertise to the service of society, with particular consideration for its most vulnerable members.

Institutional community engagement heatmap

Dimensions of community engagement	Authenticity	Social needs	Communities	Spread	Sustainability
Teaching and learning
Research
Service and knowledge exchange
Students
Management / partnerships
Management / policies
Peer support

Heatmap colour legend:

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Highest level

In the TEFCE Toolbox: „4 The heatmap is focused on the dimensions of community-engagement activities. The dimensions that relate to the supportive environment for community engagement (Dimensions VI – Management/policies; and Dimension VII – Supportive peers) are only subject to the ‘Authenticity’ characteristic of the heatmap since those dimensions relate to ensuring the institutional conditions for engaging with communities rather than on engagement activities themselves.“

Featured practices

Sustainable KU LeuvenKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

I. Teaching and learning
II. Research
IV. Students
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
Service-learning KU LeuvenKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

I. Teaching and learning
II. Research
III. Service and knowledge exchange
IV. Students
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
Science Shop KU LeuvenKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

I. Teaching and learning
II. Research
III. Service and knowledge exchange
IV. Students
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
KU Leuven EngageKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

I. Teaching and learning
II. Research
III. Service and knowledge exchange
IV. Students
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
KOTengageKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

III. Service and knowledge exchange
IV. Students
Global Engagement@ KU LeuvenKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

I. Teaching and learning
II. Research
III. Service and knowledge exchange
IV. Students
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
Diversity policy office KU LeuvenKU Leuven (Catholic University of Leuven)Belgium

III. Service and knowledge exchange
V. Management (partnerships and openness)
VI. Management (policies, support structures)

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Find different institutions

The list below shows three institutions that have different results in their institutional heatmap (see methodological note*).

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* Methodological note:
The aim of this feature is to allow users to explore the variety of ways in which universities approach and organise community engagement, without allowing a direct/competitive comparison of performance. Similar and different institutions are automatically generated based on the results of their institutional community engagement heatmap results. The method used is applying Euclidean distance between institutions to provide the similar and differing institutions, which calculates the distance in an n-dimensional space between two cases.

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