Partners
University Colleges Leuven-Limburg (Limburg Catholic University College)
KHLim is prominent for the high quality of its teaching and its research. More than 40 bachelor and master programmes are offered in a diversity of fields, including health care, social work, business & commerce, education, science & technology and media & design. KHLim's strong commitment to research ensures state-of-the-art study programmes for its 6000 students.Limburg Catholic Univesity College (KHLim) is an institution for higher education in Flanders, Belgium. KHLim is part of the renowed Association Catholic University Leuven, a university network, which brings together 12 institutions of higher education in Flanders.
The research policy is focused on applied research, and demand driven answering to the needs of industry and work field. KHLim's mission is to develop innovative technology for companies, and to transfer new technology to the market and in doing that taking an active role as a valued member of the knowledge transfer partnership in our regional ecosystem.
KHLim's international outlook manifests itself in the partnerships with European educational networks and institutions for higher education across the globe. KHLim also strongly collaborates with local, regional and national policy-making bodies, resulting in a broad network of partners, target groups and stakeholders. At the same time, KHLim is dedicated to providing consultancy and made-to-measure programmes for continuing education to local industries, organizations and governments.
KHLim is an active member of different educational networks and has many partners abroad. Thanks to programmes such as Erasmus and Leonardo, we exchange students with many universities throughout Europe. We also signed co-operation agreements with schools and organisations in other parts of the world. Thus, our students get the opportunity to follow courses or do a traineeship in e.g. Peru, South-Africa, Canada or New Zealand.
KHLim has already a long-standing experience with North-South cooperation. What first started as a small niche, has now grown into a system that inspires and develops our teaching, research and commitment to the community. For our cooperation with our Southern partners, KHLim chooses for a specific educational concept: CDSL Community Development through Service Learning. Students are prepared and monitored to actively participate in the development of various communities in the South. They have four major tasks: a professional input, implementation of a prepared project, participation in community-building activities and needs analysis of the local community. Students receive close follow-up and monitoring before, during and after their stay in the South. They use their professional input in a transdisciplinary team to strengthen the community and started each time from local needs and solutions to guarantee added value for our Southern partners. Through this process we are working on a sustainable partnership with South partners. Keywords during this partnership are mutual trust and respect.
Project Team
Lotte Wilms
Michaël Joris
Lieven Faes
Support by KHLim’s “Business Development Centre” and “Project Bureau”.