League of European Research Universities
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The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is a consortium of European research universities.
History and overview
The League of European Research Universities (LERU) is an association of research-intensive universities. Founded in 2002 as a partnership among twelve multi-faculty research universities, in 2024 its membership expanded to twenty-four. As the latest addition, ETH Zurich joined the alliance on 1 January 2024. The purpose of the League is to influence policy in Europe and to develop best practice through mutual exchange of experience. LERU regularly publishes a variety of papers and reports which make high-level policy statements, provide analyses and make recommendations for policymakers, universities, researchers and other stakeholders.
LERU is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. Kurt Deketelaere is the current Secretary-General.[1] Linda Doyle is the current chair.
Membership
The Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, one of the 12 founding member of the LERU, voluntarily left the group in March 2011.[2] The 24 member universities as of 2024 are:
| Country | Universities |
|---|---|
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| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Copenhagen<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[6] |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Helsinki<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[2]<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[4] |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | Sorbonne University<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] |
| Paris-Saclay University<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] | |
| University of Strasbourg<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[4] | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Freiburg<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] |
| Heidelberg University<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1] | |
| University of Munich | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | Trinity College Dublin<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1]<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[6] |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Milan |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Amsterdam<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] |
| Leiden University<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1]<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[2] | |
| Utrecht University<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3]<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[4] | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Barcelona<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[5]<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1] |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | Lund University<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | University of Geneva<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1] |
| ETH Zurich | |
| University of Zurich<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] | |
| Script error: No such module "flag". | Imperial College London<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[5] |
| University College London<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[3] | |
| University of Cambridge<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1] | |
| University of Edinburgh<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1] | |
| University of Oxford<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[1]<templatestyles src="Citation/styles.css"/>[2] |
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Notes
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