The ICRA 2007 meeting took place in Leuven from June 17th to June 20th, 2007.

Leuven is very central in Belgium at only about 25 kilometers to the east of Brussels, and Brussels airport is in between Brussels and Leuven, at only a 15 minutes direct train ride from the airport to Leuven.

Leuven is a small city with a very rich medieval history, it is called an open air museum of the past with impressive town hall, abbeys, churches, beguinages, old market squares, etc. Because of its central location, Leuven was very actively submersed in a lot of the major big events in European history. At present Leuven is mostly known nationally and internationally for beer and students, which sometimes may go nicely together. The university is one of the oldest universities in the world (I think even the oldest across the alps) and InBev is number 1 beer brewer in the world (Stella Artois, etc.). Both have influenced daily life in Leuven. In the very old surroundings about 30000 students and numerous cafés and restaurants on market squares find their place. Leuven can be about 2 hours away from Paris, Amsterdam, London. The very interesting cities of Brugge, Antwerp, Gent, Brussels are all within 1 hour travel time.

You can have a short look at the Leuven city website Leuven city website , and the website of the university . (The links should open in a new window.)

Here are some photos from the meeting. (If you have photos you would like to add to the web site please let us know.)