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With KU Leuven Engage, we have anchored KU Leuven’s commitment in a single overarching service that is also committed to sustainability, solidarity and inclusion. KU Leuven Engage aims to become the hub in the network of actors and partners, bringing together knowledge and practice and providing solid and sustainable evidence-informed policy support. The service will reach cruising speed in the coming years, and will act as a catalyst in the coordination and further development of initiatives and collaborations that foster solidarity and engagement. We will work with colleagues at KU Leuven Engage to explore the role they can play, whether or not in collaboration with relevant external partners, in developing a range of projects for which colleagues and teams can use their ‘commitment time’. And why shouldn’t KU Leuven Engage, with its many partnerships with social organisations, play a role in bringing together social actors and researchers, or in strengthening communication about the social impact of our research?

Together, we make KU Leuven

Thank you very much for the vote of confidence you have placed in me during what has already been an intense campaign. Now we are steaming ahead to the final round of voting! Because if you really want to bring a breath of fresh air to the university, you need to know exactly what is going on, what the needs are and how we can realistically address them. In short, you need to know KU Leuven inside out so that we can move forward together and leave no one behind. That’s why I am keen to continue the dialogue with you, because yes, together, we make KU Leuven.