In addition to offering a wide array of bachelorand master programs, the Erasmushogeschool Brussel (EhB) is also actively involved in scientific research, collaborates intensely with the business and industrial worlds.

Even if the prime aim of the Haute Ecole Leonard de Vinci is to provide training to students, it has set for itself three inter-related aims which ensure that the initial training is retained and built on continued training which responds to the expectations of the professional world by ensuring a continuous updating of the expertise associated with economic, social and technical development, applied research and service to the community which enhance the value of the teaching provided by the university college by nurturing cooperative relations with companies and international relations which extend the above-mentioned aims beyond the four walls of the institution. Three units of the Institut Supérieur Industriel, ECAM actively conduct applied research in the ICT domain.

Since 1996, the Haute Ecole Paul-Henri Spaak (HEPHS) is a dynamic University College with six campuses in the Brussels-Capital Region and one in Wallonia.