{"id":17284,"date":"2026-06-20T12:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/leuven-university-seeks-partnership-with-iita-in-research-programs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:48:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:48:49","slug":"leuven-university-seeks-partnership-with-iita-in-research-programs","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/leuven-university-seeks-partnership-with-iita-in-research-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"Leuven University seeks partnership with IITA in research programs"},"content":{"rendered":"IITA hosted a team from\u00a0<a title=\"Visit the University of Leuven website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Katholieke Universiteit Leuven<\/a>\u00a0in Belgium (also known as KU Lueven) at its campus in Ibadan, Nigeria. The team led by Professor Georges Gielen, the Vice Rector of the University, was at the Institute to explore ways to expand and strengthen collaboration with IITA in research programs and projects to deliver more outcomes.\n<div id=\"attachment_1119\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bulletin.iita.org\/index.php\/2016\/08\/26\/leuven-university-seeks-partnership-iita-research-programs\/1024_leuven\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1119\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1119\" src=\"https:\/\/iita.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1024_Leuven.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of A delegate from Leuven University addresses participants.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1119\" \/><\/a>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A delegate from Leuven University addresses participants.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nHe was accompanied by his colleagues at the university- Bart Nicolai, Nadie Buys and Karen Vancampenhout. The visit took place 22\u201323 August.\n\nThe team met and held discussions with IITA\u2019s scientists and research fellows from different fields as the first steps towards developing closer collaborations.\n\nDuring the meeting Gielen gave a brief background of KU Leuven which he termed as Europe\u2019s most renowned research university with its mission of excellence in research. \u201cThe university has created a number of spin-off companies involved in diverse research programs which should be of interest to IITA\u201d he said.\n\nThe University is seeking to partner with IITA in agro-food production, processing, and linking nutrition and health, among others.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IITA hosted a team from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (also known as KU Lueven) at its campus in Ibadan, Nigeria.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":17285,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"tags":[2199],"science-area":[],"program":[],"location":[32],"news-type":[],"hub":[61],"crop":[],"impact-areas":[],"item-year":[194],"class_list":["post-17284","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bulletin-no-2340katholieke-universiteit-leuven","location-nigeria","hub-western-africa","item-year-194"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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