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Managing research careers in an expanding research profile Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

par Cabiaux, Véronique ;Thys-Clément, Françoise
Référence University Research Management: Meeting The Institutional Challenge, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), page (157-181)
Publication Publié, 2005

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The University is undergoing major changes, as it is faced with several challenges, whilst the expectations of its partners about the missions it should pursue are rising. It is also undergoing major changes in management and governance methods imposed by financial restrictions from the public sector (F. Thys-Clément, 1995). Consequently, the University as an institution is facing a major paradigm transformation expressed in particular by the notion of "academic capitalism" stressed by the American scholars L. Leslie and Sh. Slaughter (1997). The French-speaking Belgian universities are in the midst of reorganising the way they operate because they are confronted with financial restrictions brought about by the implementation of budgetary federalism (B. Bayonet and F. Thys-Clémént, 1998) which effects mainly the French speaking community - Brussels. Our paper deals with the organisational arrangement of contractual research at the (French-speaking) Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the financial volume of which has virtually tripled in the last fifteen years. (R. Tollet, 2002). The first chapter of this article will briefly cover the integration of research in Belgium in an international context. The place of the ULB in the Belgian academic landscape and, in particular, that of the Communauté française de Belgique (here after referred to as French speaking community) will then be broached, followed by the specific organisational arrangements of contractual research. The conclusion will underscore the need for a strategic implementation of this modus operandi for the University.