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It was at the initiative of the Università Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) and of the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (Nijmegen, Netherlands) that preliminary steps were taken in 1924 to bring together the Catholic universities in a Federation to discuss specific issues of common concern. These endeavours were concretised the following year during a meeting at the Institut Catholique de Paris where 14 universities from the various parts of the world were represented at a first General Assembly. It was only after the Second World War that the Fœderatio Universitatum Catholicarum took off. It was recognised by a Decree of the Holy See in 1948 and by Pope Pius XII in 1949. It became the International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) in 1965. IFCU collaborates with the Secretariat of State, the Congregation for Catholic Education, AVEPRO, and various dicasteries including the Dicastery for Integral Human Development. The role of the Federation is : To promote collective reflection on their mission amongst Catholic higher education institutions; To foster academic cooperation in the field of research, as well as the valuation and dissemination of research results towards decision-making communities; To promote experience and skill exchange among Catholic higher education institutions; To represent Catholic universities at the international organizations and associations and to collaborate with them in line with its institutional priorities; To contribute to the development of Catholic higher education and to the assertion of its specific identity.