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ULB (Université libre de Bruxelles) is a comprehensive university which closely involves teaching, research and service to society. A major focus of its international strategy is to strengthen its presence in Europe by implementing a dynamic policy, centered on a limited number of partnerships to develop strong research activities (such as participation in networks of excellence) and education (such as launching European Masters), while ensuring integration of exchanges in a real educational project. This European policy is helping to create a European Research and Education Space, and to develop Euro-regional clusters competitiveness. The university is based on 335 Socrates / Erasmus agreements, 328 institutional bilateral agreements, about a hundred of international research projects and a series of privileged partnerships. ULB can also rely on the presence of 26% of foreign students, 9% of teachers, 36% of researchers, 41% of PhD students and 10% of foreign administrative.