LEAGUE OF EUROPEAN RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES

According to its mission statement, the 'League of European Research Universities' ('LERU') is "a group of European research-intensive universities committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research."
Founded in 2002, as a partnership among 12 of Europe's top research universities, in 2006 it expanded its membership to include 8 new universities. It is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. The 20 member universities as of 2006 are:
'Belgium'

★ Catholic University of Leuven (Dutch-speaking)
'Finland'

★ University of Helsinki
'France'

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★ Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg

★ University of Paris-Sud
'Germany'

★ Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg

★ Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich

★ Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
'Italy'

★ University of Milan
'The Netherlands'

★ University of Amsterdam

★ Leiden University ,

★ University of Utrecht
'Sweden'

★ Karolinska Institute, Stockholm

★ Lund University
'Switzerland'

★ University of Geneva

★ University of Zurich
'United Kingdom'

★ University College London

★ University of Cambridge

★ University of Edinburgh

★ University of Oxford ,

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Footnotes

See also

★ IDEA League (a strategic alliance of five of Europe's leading technical research universities)

External links

★ LERU website

Footnotes

# These universities also belong to the Coimbra Group, a (larger) alliance of European universities.
# These universities also belong to Europaeum, another European university network.
# These universities joined the League as new members on January 17, 2006.