Monday, 01 February 2010

With Higher Education Insitutions, three main universities, hospitals linked with these universities and research centers, the Brussels-Capital Region is involved in multidisciplinary technological research and is a favourable environment for the development of new technologies.

ULB

The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) has five academic hospitals (Hôpital Erasme, CHU Saint-Pierre, CHU Brugmann, Hôpital des Enfants Reine Fabiola (HUDERF), and the Institut Jules Bordet).

Alongside them, it also benefits from a vast hospital training network in Brussels, Brabant and Hainaut. The Faculty of Medicine bases its teaching on research carried out in practically all the specialist fields.

(see http://www.ulb.ac.be/rech/inventaire/facultes/medecine.html).

A range of areas of expertise and value creation activities result from this joint research, undertaken with the University’s other Schools and other Belgian and foreign research infrastructures, enabling this network to generate a number of major growth fields in the Brussels Region:

• Molecular Biology
• Cancerology
• Immunology
• Pharmaceutical Research
• Public Health
  

VUB

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a dynamic and modern university with two parkland campuses in the Brussels Capital Region: the main campus in Etterbeek is home to seven faculties. In Jette you can find the medical campus and the University Hospital (UZ-Brussel).

 High quality education and research are central issues. Our research teams are internationally recognised in many disciplines of fundamental and applied research.

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel supports all R&D activities in the process leading from scientific discovery and exploration of new knowledge up to invention and development, including the interface with the regional and worldwide industrial and economic actors, the non-profit sector, the policy makers and governments.

Building relations with industry is crucial: giving a tangible impact to our R&D by transferring results to industry, government and society is a priority taken care of by the Technology Transfer Interface. Contract research, protection of intellectual property, license agreements, spinoff guidance,etc. it all passes through the TTI, the unique entry point for industry, that knows how and where to find the right researchers to answer your questions.

UCL

The Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) has a long-standing, worldwide recognised expertise in Exact and Medical Sciences.

Many research projects are performed both in Louvain-la-Neuve and on its biomedical campus in Brussels. Indeed, teams originating from four faculties are involved in a multidisciplinary technological research: the Faculty of Bioengineering, Agronomy and Environment, the Faculty of Applied Sciences, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Sciences.

Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak

Since 1996, the Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak (HEPHS) is a dynamic Higher Education Institution with six campuses in the Brussels-Capital Region and one in Wallonia.

Even if the main objective of the Haute Ecole remains the delivery of high quality education, it has built up, since several decades, multiple research competencies and expertise often recognised at international level.

Capitalizing on more than 40 researchers and experts, the HEPHS extensively participates in applied and fundamental research projects with the industrial world at Belgian and international levels.

With a spirit of pluralism, the HEPHS wants to participate in the development of its social, business and cultural environment.