Culture connects people across cultures and social groups. The Committee for Culture, Arts and Heritage will, therefore, be mandated to draw up a plan to encourage the cultural participation of colleagues and students, and to ensure access to a diverse cultural offering on or around all KU Leuven campuses. We have already learnt from the anniversary year that our own university heritage deserves even more attention than it currently receives: not only should it captivate students and colleagues, but also connect us as a university to society. We will continue to encourage the interaction between art and science and explore ways to propagate the intellectual and connective power of art and literature throughout the organisation (e.g. by bringing our writers in residence to the fore more prominently, or by keeping the 600 years KU Leuven poetry route alive even after the anniversary year).