Belgium - Leuven
Website: www.kuleuven.be
Situated in Belgium, in the heart of Western Europe, KU Leuven has been a centre of learning for nearly six centuries. Today, it is Belgium's largest university and, founded in 1425, one of the oldest and most renowned universities in Europe. As a leading European research university and co-founder of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), KU Leuven offers a wide variety of international Master’s programmes, all supported by high-quality, innovative, interdisciplinary research.
KU Leuven has 55,637 students and 10,255 employees in 16 different faculties at present. It is an internationally oriented university, carrying out both fundamental and applied research in inter- and multidisciplinary focus and, based on this, offering a broad academic education. We work together with our research partners at home and abroad. In the Dutch-language courses, BA-, MA- and advanced MA programmes are offered.
KU Leuven cooperates with partners all over the world. There are Erasmus contracts with 434 European universities and 22 central bilateral agreements with 8 countries.
The Faculty of Arts groups a large number of cultural sciences. Education and research address the cultural development of humanity from prehistoric times up to the present in the Western and in the non-Western world. Research focuses on (historical and contemporary) intercultural relations in Northwest Europe, especially the Netherlands, and the Eastern Mediterranean region, concentrated in several research units, two of which are especially relevant for the project:
- Cultural history since 1750, focussing on five cross-related areas: history of science, history of historiography and historical culture, history of cultural and social criticism, history of the cultural infrastructure, history of cultural transfers, learning and teaching history and the history of history education.
- Modernity and Society 1800-2000, focusing on the historical study of modern societies since ca. 1750, ways of streamlining, orienting, opposing or shaping major social developments. It investigates socio-economic developments, modes of cohabitation, living strategies, ideologies, social and political movements. The research unit also looks at processes of collective identification and intellectual and cultural exchange, favouring a transnational and comparative perspective, in which Europe functions as the central geographical focus. It intends to compare European developments with non-European realities in both the Western and the non-Western worlds, as well as in the colonial and postcolonial ones.
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse
Specific History Teacher Training Programme, Faculty of Arts KU
Leuven
Research in History Didactics
Erasmushuis office 05.28
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21 PB 3307
B-3000 Leuven
Belgium
Phone: +32 16 32 49 92
E-Mail: karel.vannieuwenhuyse@arts.kuleuven.be
Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00033576
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