Académie Louvain was a network of French-speaking catholic universities in Belgium active between 2004 and 2015. It was formed following the Bologna process to reform higher-level education, creating a larger university structure.
The first implementation of the Académie Louvain network was the creation of the Louvain School of Management, which could unite the faculties and departments of economics, management and business of all four universities, in 5 different cities. This specific choice was made because all four member universities offered degrees in this field. It also included the ICHEC Brussels Management School, a college based in Brussels.
After almost three years of active collaboration within the network, the rectors of the four catholic universities decided on March 12, 2007 to open negotiations with the aim of merging the four establishments into one single university. Each site was to become a site of "UC Louvain".[1]
The merger among the four was aborted December 17, 2010 after the ultimate vote on the board of UNamur failed to attain the required 80% (30 in favour and 14 against).[2]
The Académie Louvain was formally dissolved on February 26, 2016 as a consequence of the new legislation for the higher education in French-speaking Belgium, the Décret Paysage (also known as the Décret Marcourt).[4] The merger plan partially succeeded as the original UCL, FUSL and FUCaM still merged in a single institution called UCLouvain. Practical collaborations of the Académie Louvain are still in place, as for example all 20 libraries work in a single network called BORéAL (Bibliothèque On-Line du Réseau de l'Académie Louvain).
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^ (in French). Archived from the original on 2009-05-29.
^"La fusion UCL/Saint-Louis résulte de normes constitutionnelles ou internationales supérieures à tout décret". lesoir.be (in French). 30 May 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
^"Dissolution Académie Louvain". uclouvain.be (in French). 26 February 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
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UNamur
University Saint-Louis Brussels
Université catholique de Louvain
December 15, 2023
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