iTec stands for Interdisciplinary Research on Technology, Education & Communication. iTec is a knowledge center of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven). It is a research center that brings together researchers from various existing research groups or units of the K.U.Leuven in a cooperative structure housed at the Campus Kortrijk. Besides their participation in iTec, the researchers also belong to the existing research structures of the K.U.Leuven. In this way, a close cooperation with other research units, including the Department of Linguistics, the Center for instructional psychology and technology, the Center for Methodology of pedagogical research and the Leuven Statistics Research Center, is also structurally secured. At the same time the explicit interdisciplinary character of the research themes and the approach clearly distinguishes this research from the research conducted by research units at Leuven.

iTec was created in August 2007, partly as a result of the granting of an IOF-knowledge platform by a team of 4 tenured professors, who are the driving forces behind iTec.

• Educationalist - Geraldine Clarebout,
• Computer scientist - Patrick De Causmaecker,
• Linguist and language methodologist - Piet Desmet,
• Methodologist and statistician - Wim Van den Noortgate.

Together with the research collaborators iTec has been based in the IICK-building since 2007, where the Innovation Center West Flanders, with whom it interacts is also based.  In 2008 an appeal was made by the rector of the Campus Kortrijk to form a limited number of research teams. Campus Kortrijk of KULeuven cherishes the ambition to have research teams in a limited number of well-defined areas and to support and stimulate these to be internationally authoritative. Today iTec is recognized as one of the nine research teams at Campus Kortrijk and it is one of the largest teams.

iTec’s most important goal is to transfer to other disciplines for the creation of knowledge, the valorization of knowledge and the dissemination of knowledge in cooperation with Innovatiecentrum West-Vlaanderen through research meetings and new research projects (IWT, IOF, EU,…)