A NETWORK UNIVERSITY
Working in networks More than ever before, sharing knowledge and working together are key concepts in academia. In view of this, the university of the future will largely be a network university, as universities can only truly realise their ambitions through collaboration with others. Leiden University has partners close to home and on the other side of the world.
NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
STRATEGIC ALLIANCE: LEIDEN 1 -DELFT 2 -ERASMUS 3
Collaboration makes us better. Close to home, we work with businesses, museums, schools, the municipalities of Leiden and The Hague and other universities. Nationally, we work with 13 other universities in the Association of Universities The Netherlands (VSNU). The VSNU works with public and private partners. Another example of such collaboration is Medical Delta: the Delft-LeidenRotterdam consortium for innovation in health and medical technology. The partners in this consortium are the universities and their medical centres in Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam, as well as science parks, incubators, businesses and local and regional government. At the European level, we are a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU). LERU is a group of 23 leading European research universities that lobby in their own countries and Europe on the importance of fundamental scientific research. We also have partnerships with many other organisations and institutions.
Leiden University, Delft University of Technology and Erasmus University Rotterdam work together in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) strategic alliance. Resolving major societal issues calls for an intensive commit ment from universities, in close cooperation with other partners in society. By applying their high-quality scientific knowledge, the breadth of their largely complementary portfolios and their physical proximity to one another, the three universities are able to work together on regional, national and global issues. The three universities conduct joint research and offer joint educational programmes. They collaborate across four societal themes: Sustainable Society, Inclusive Society, Healthy Society and Digital Society. These themes also set the direction for future teaching and research within the LDE alliance.
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