Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques (French) | |
.svg){kind=logo} English version of the logo for the International Federation of Catholic Universities | |
.svg){kind=logo} French variant | |
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| Formation | 1924/1948 |
| Type | International Federation and universities |
| Headquarters | 9, 21 Rue d'Assas, 75006Paris, France |
Secretary General | François Mabille |
| Website | http://fiuc-ifcu.org/ |
TheInternational Federation of Catholic Universities (French:Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques) is an organisation of 226Catholic universities throughout the world. The secretariat is at theInstitut Catholique de Paris.
The federation has its origins in collaboration in 1924 between theUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and theCatholic university of Nijmegen in theNetherlands. It was created by a Papal Decree in 1948 as theFœderatio Universitatum Catholicarum it became the International Federation of Catholic Universities in 1965.[1] The FIUC facilitates, research, partnership and exchange programmes between catholic institutes of education.[2] In 2023, it had 226 members universities in the world.[3]
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The IFCU is broken up into a number of regions of the world:
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