Françoise Smets, dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), introduces the innovation and research capacity of the institution as the top-ranking French-speaking university in Belgium. Smets goes on to give her assessment of the Belgian academic landscape and shares the importance of the government continuing to prioritise the education of the country's next generation of healthcare professionals.
[Belgium is] somewhat less bureaucratic than other European countries in the overall process of research and innovation. Therefore, we manage to be competitive in achieving research grants and funding from the European Union to support our projects and to become pioneers
