The European Investment Bank (EIB) will grant 325 million euro to K.U. Leuven and UZ Leuven for the construction and completion of the "Health Sciences Campus Gasthuisberg", a first-class medical and university centre providing acute care, education and research in a single location, "Gasthuisberg" in Leuven. The EIB decided to support the project, considering it as a major initiative in line with the European policies for health, education and innovation.
The project will be a comprehensive centre of excellence, combining acute and specialist hospital services on a single campus together with teaching activities and biomedical research of K.U. Leuven. As such it will also provide a central specialist hospital "hub" within K.U. Leuven hospital network, to offer the highest level of healthcare services to the patients. Through co-location resulting in full integration of healthcare, research and teaching activities, it will ease synergies and allow the achievement of UZ Leuven and K.U. Leuven's academic and biomedical objectives.
