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UCLouvain
UCLouvain (or Université catholique de Louvain , French for Catholic University of Louvain, officially in English the University of Louvain) is Belgium's largest French-speaking university and one of the oldest in Europe (originally established in 1425). It is located in Louvain-la-Neuve, which was expressly built to house the university, and has smaller campuses in Brussels, Charleroi, Mons, Belgium, Mons, Tournai and Namur. Since September 2018, the university uses the branding UCLouvain, replacing the acronym UCL, following a merger with Saint-Louis University, Brussels. The original Old University of Louvain, University of Louvain (''Universitas Lovaniensis'') was founded at the centre of the historic town of Leuven (or ''Louvain'') in 1425, making it the List of universities in Belgium, first university in Belgium and the Low Countries, and abolished by law in 1797. This university was the centre of Baianism, Jansenism and Febronianism in Europe. A new university, the Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCLouvain Charleroi
UCLouvain Charleroi is a campus of the Université catholique de Louvain, University of Louvain in Charleroi, Belgium. Consisting of 3 faculties and a series of research centers and institutes, UCLouvain Charleroi consists of the Maison Georges Lemaître, in the center of the city, and a branch in Montignies-sur-Sambre. It is one of the three UCLouvain sites in the Hainaut Province, along with UCLouvain FUCaM Mons and UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning#Tournai, UCLouvain Tournai. History During the Split of the Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven crisis in the 1960s, a transfer of the French-speaking part of the Catholic University of Louvain from Leuven to Charleroi, one of Belgium's largest cities though without any List of universities in Belgium, university, is considered as one of the major alternatives to a relocation in Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Ottignies, which will later hold Louvain-la-Neuve. When the university is leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CHU UCLouvain Namur
The CHU UCLouvain Namur or CHU UCL Namur (also called ''UCLouvain Namur'' by the University of Louvain and officially named ''Centre hospitalier universitaire Dinant Godinne Saint-Elisabeth - UCL-Namur'') is a general hospital with academic beds located in the cities of Namur, Dinant, Yvoir and Ciney, in the Belgian province of Namur. Established in 2015, it is UCLouvain's second hospital. Description CHU UCLouvain Namur counts 4.996 employees, making it the largest employer in the Namur province. It is part of the Réseau Santé Louvain network of hospitals. Institutions and locations City of Namur * Sainte-Élisabeth site: located on Place Louise Godin in Namur, this vast hospital complex also contains the ECNAS nursing school, and the CMSE, a maternity clinic. * Foyer Saint-François - Centre de soins palliatifs: located a little to the south of the previous one is a palliative centre, accompanied by the ''Maison de Naissance de Namur'' (''Arche de Noé'', a maternity clin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe
UCLouvain Bruxelles Woluwe, also known as Louvain-en-Woluwe or Alma, is a campus of the University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. The campus, built in the 1970s following the Leuven crisis, houses the Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences and of Public Health, the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, the university's main academic hospital, as well as many other institutions of higher education and a vast sports complex. It is one of the three UCLouvain sites in Brussels, with UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and Saint-Louis University, Brussels. History Following the split of the Catholic University of Louvain into two legally independent entities in 1968, the majority of the French-speaking university was relocated in Louvain-la-Neuve (Walloon Brabant) since 1972. It was however decided to move the medical school to the eastern suburbs of Brussels, including the construction of a new university hospital complex. In 1968, UCLouvain acquired land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Louis University, Brussels
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels is an autonomous university campus specialized in social and human sciences part of UCLouvain and based in Brussels, Belgium. Established in 1857, Saint-Louis University, Brussels (officially, in French Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles) used to be a public university belonging to the French Community of Belgium before a merger with the University of Louvain decided in 2017. Both universities have been using the new designation 'UCLouvain' since 2018 and legally merged in 2023. History When the Catholic University of Belgium moved from Mechelen to Leuven in 1835, the unused buildings were used to host the newly founded ''École de Commerce et d'Industrie'' (School of Trade and Industry), which was inaugurated in 1838. The school moved to Brussels in 1858 and became the ''Institut Saint-Louis'' (a diocesan secondary school), where the Philosophy Department was founded, which eventually grew to become a university. This was the result of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCLouvain FUCaM Mons
UCLouvain FUCaM Mons is a satellite campus of the Université catholique de Louvain, University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in Mons, Belgium, Mons, Wallonia, Belgium founded in 1896. Until 2011, it was an independent institution known as the Catholic university of Mons (French name: ''Facultés universitaires catholique de Mons'', abbreviation: ''FUCaM''). Its official language is French (language), French. UCLouvain FUCaM Mons is one of the two universities in the city Mons, Belgium, Mons, the other being the University of Mons, and the main implementation of the UCLouvain in the province of Hainaut (province), Hainaut, along with UCLouvain Charleroi and UCLouvain Tournai. Before the merger of 2011, the FUCaM were one of the 9 Belgian French-speaking universities,. Academic programs The UCLouvain FUCaM Mons hosts two faculties of the University of Louvain: * The Louvain School of Management with Bachelor's degree, bachelor's and master's degrees in management and economics. * Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brussels
Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalities, 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country. It is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, and is separate from the Flemish Region (Flanders), within which it forms an enclave, and the Walloon Region (Wallonia), located less than to the south. Brussels grew from a small rural settlement on the river Senne (river), Senne to become an important city-region in Europe. Since the end of the Second World War, it has been a major centre for international politics and home to numerous international organisations, politicians, Diplomacy, diplomats and civil servants. Brussels is the ''de facto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louvain-la-Neuve
Louvain-la-Neuve (; French for "New Leuven"; ) is a planned town in the municipality of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Wallonia, Belgium, situated 30 km southeast of Brussels, in the province of Walloon Brabant. The town was built to house the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) which owns the entire territory of the town; following the linguistic quarrels that took place in Belgium during the 1960s, and Flemish claims of discrimination at the Catholic University of Leuven, the institution was split into the Dutch language Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), which remained in Leuven, and the Université catholique de Louvain. To a great extent, it still lives following the rhythms of the university that is its raison d'être. However, with the construction of ''L'Esplanade'' shopping complex, the '' Aula Magna'' exhibition centre and auditorium, a large cinema complex, and five museums, it is beginning to grow beyond its academic roots. History Language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint-Gilles, Belgium
( French, ) or ( Dutch, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the southern part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Anderlecht, Forest and Ixelles. In common with all of Brussels' municipalities, it is legally bilingual (French–Dutch), but predominantly French-speaking nowadays. Saint-Gilles has a multicultural identity stemming from its diverse population. The housing stock varies from semi-derelict tenements near Brussels-South railway station in the north, to elegant bourgeois houses on the southern borders with Uccle and Ixelles, to tourist hotels at the inner end of the Chaussée de Charleroi/Charleroisesteenweg. History Beginnings as Obbrussel The first houses of the hamlet of ''Obbrussel'' (, meaning "Upper Brussels") were built, between the 7th and the 11th centuries, close to the /, one of the points of highest elevation in Brussels, now part of Forest. In 1216, following strong demographic growt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tournai
Tournai ( , ; ; ; , sometimes Anglicisation (linguistics), anglicised in older sources as "Tournay") is a city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality of Wallonia located in the Hainaut Province, Province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies by road southwest of the centre of Brussels on the river Scheldt, and is part of Eurometropolis Lille–Kortrijk–Tournai, In 2022, the municipality of Tournai had an estimated population of 68,518 people. Tournai is one of the oldest cities in Belgium and has played an important role in the country's cultural history. It was the first capital of the Francia, Frankish Empire, with Clovis I being born here. Geography Tournai lies by road southwest of the centre of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Administratively, the town and municipality is part of the Hainaut Province, Province of Hainaut, in the Wallonia region of southwest Belgium. The municipality has an area of . Tournai has its own Arrondissements of Belgium, arrondissements, both ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guild Of European Research-Intensive Universities
The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities (also called The Guild) is a university network founded in 2016. It currently comprises 23 of Europe's research-intensive universities in 17 countries. The Guild released a series of position papers as part of the European Commission's consultation for Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and the next Framework Programme (FP10). Its current Chair is Anders Hagfeldt, Vice-Chancellor Uppsala University, in Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count .... Members Since 2025, the group is made up of the following universities: See also * List of higher education associations and alliances References {{Networks of European universities Organizations established in 2016 College and university associations and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private University
Private universities and private colleges are higher education institutions not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. However, they often receive tax breaks, public student loans, and government grants. Depending on the country, private universities may be subject to government regulations. Private universities may be contrasted with public universities and national universities which are either operated, owned or institutionally funded by governments. Additionally, many private universities operate as nonprofit organizations. Across the world, different countries have different regulations regarding accreditation for private universities and as such, private universities are more common in some countries than in others. Some countries do not have any private universities at all. Africa Egypt Egypt currently has 21 public universities with about two million students and 23 private universities with 60,000 students. Egypt has many private universities in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Industrial Managers For Europe
Top International Managers in Engineering (T.I.M.E.), formerly Top Industrial Managers for Europe, is a network of fifty-seven engineering schools, faculties and technical universities. The oldest European network of engineering schools in its field, the T.I.M.E. Association promotes graduate student exchanges and double degrees throughout Europe and the world to enable students to achieve a broader, high-level scientific engineering education with in-depth intercultural experience. Several hundreds of graduate students per year participate in T.I.M.E. mobility activities and pursue double degrees (at Master and Doctorate levels). Double degrees require the participating student to spend more than three semesters in another member university and at least the same in her/his home university, in order to be awarded two full degrees. The T.I.M.E. network includes primarily graduate engineering schools and technical universities from Europe, but increasing numbers of members are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
