According to its mission statement, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) is "a group of European research-intensive universities committed to the values of high quality teaching within an environment of internationally competitive research."
Founded in 2002, it is a partnership between 12 of Europe's top research universities. It is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. The member universities are:
LERU advocates that specific funds be made available at the European level and be administered by a new, to be erected European Research Council that -in addition to existing regional, national and European funding agencies- will support truly excellent fundamental research.
LERU is strongly in favour of an integrated approach involving basic, strategic, and applied research.
LERU does not promote the exclusive interest of its members, but seeks to defend the interests of all that are engaged in top-level basic research, and in the training of young scientists able to build and support Europe ’s role as the leading continent of the knowledge-based 21st century world.
LERU was established in 2002 as a community of twelve universities with the aim of promoting European basic research taking place in universities.
The universities in the League were selected on the basis of an objective evaluation on certain disciplines.
The LERU member universities are the Universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh,Geneva, Helsinki, Leiden and Oxford, as well as die Ruprecht-Karls-Universität zu Heidelberg, de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, l'Università degli studi di Milano, die Ludvig-Maximilians-Universität zu München, Karolinska Institutet i Stockholm and l'Université Louis Pasteur à Strasbourg.
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