Welcome day Exchange students campus Brussels 20152016 Who
Welcome day Exchange students campus Brussels 20152016
Who are you?
Who are we? • KU Leuven, campus Brussels • KU Leuven ≠ Odisee • KU Leuven 1425
Who are we? 1. Centralised International Office – in Leuven 2. Mobility Office Campus Brussels 3. Key persons internationalisation and academic responsibles 4. Stuvo Plus 5. ESN KULBrussels
Who are we? 1. Institutional Coordinator KU Leuven: o Mrs. Elke Timmermans 2. Mobility Office KU Leuven, campus Brussels Head of International Office Faculty of Economics and Business = o Ingeborg Vandenbulcke Mobility coordinator KU Leuven, campus Brussels = o Dirk G. Van Waelderen Staff incoming students Faculties of Arts & Economics and Business= o Rebecca Rampelberg
Who are we? 3. Key persons internationalisation Faculty of Arts Faculty of Economics and Business • Netherlands/Hungaria/Wroclaw: • • Elke Brems United Kingdom: Walter Verschueren Belgium and France: Luc Loonbeek Germany/Finland: Joël Rooms Italy: Giovanni Bevilacqua Russia/Poland except Wroclaw: Liutauras Kazakevicius Spain: Danny Masschelein (International coordinator – Arts faculty) • • Occupational Environmental Management: Talia Stough Commercial Sciences + Business Administration: Ann Pauwels, Alea Fairchild, Rosanne Vanpee Commercial Engineering: Jef Hendrickx MIBEM/MIBEB: Katrien Wauters Teacher Training: Oliver Holz
Who are we? 4. Integration officer @ student counseling: Accommodation, insurance, community registration, banking etc (= not study related): Mrs. Marieke Steurs – 1 st floor 5. ESN KULBrussels and buddies
Where are we?
Where are we?
Where are we?
Where are we?
What do we offer… o o o Very motivated staff, skilled in problem solving Wide choice of courses offered in English Study in centre of Brussels Positive student environment Academic and cultural experience
Erasmus/Exchange practicalities & deadlines • Further registration: if applicable in Mobility Office KU • • Leuven campus Brussels Password and log-in: Mobility office KU Leuven campus Brussels – in your welcome package Finalising the Learning Agreement: DEADLINE 05/10 Submit Emergency Data sheet (received by e-mail): DEADLINE 22/09 Student card (for student restaurant & other): will be distributed the following weeks by the Mobility Office – Belgian address ASAP
Erasmus/Exchange practicalities & deadlines • Information session (mandatory!) on-line platform for students: 23 & 25/09 12. 30 -13. 30, Hermes building, room 5215 and 4201 • Information and sign-up session on insurance (strongly recommended!): Hermes building, 01/10 12. 30 -13. 30, room 4215 • Library information Hermes building (strongly recommended!): 30/09, 12. 30 -13. 30 room 4215
Erasmus/Exchange practicalities & deadlines • Education and Exam Regulation: http: //www. kuleuven. be/education/regulations/ • Course schedule available on (only courses from our brochure Exchange studies in Brussels): http: //onderwijsaanbod. kuleuven. be/opleidingen/v/e/
Courses • Available courses from the brochure Exchange studies in Brussels: https: //feb. kuleuven. be/eng/br ussels/exchangeprogrammes /Exchange_studies_in_Bruss els 1516
Password and log-in 1. an ODISEE account, in the form of firstname. lastname@student. odisee. be, that can be used to Login to the PC’s in the classrooms and library and access your personal network drive + print of exam card 2. a KU Leuven account/student number, in the form of a letter followed by 7 digits (e. g. r 0123456) and that provides: o Access to all IT applications provided by KU Leuven, in particular KU Loket and the electronic learning environment o Access to your KU Leuven mailbox You first need to activate both accounts. As long as you have not done so, you will not be able to access the offered IT facilities. Use the activation code of your scratch card.
Erasmus/Exchange practicalities & deadlines • Student services @ T’Serclaes: o o o bookshop(ground floor - C) student counselling + ombudsperson (1 st floor – A/ Stuvo Plus), student administration(1 st floor - B) library (1 st – 8 th floor - C) ICT (3 rd floor - A) De. Mineen (student card necessary) • Student services @ Hermes: o o o Computer rooms Pub & Sandwich bar Study breaks
Fall semester • Only 13 weeks of classes before Christmas • Papers, group works, intermediate evaluations! • Study hard => good chance in nice results • If not => retries in August/September
Fall semester Agenda: • Last day of classes fall • • semester - December 18 th First day of exams – January 11 th Last day of exams: 30/01 Exam results: by 05/02 Retakes – enrol the first week of July
Spring semester • Only 13 weeks of classes before exams • Papers, group works, intermediate evaluations! • Study hard => good chance in nice results • If not => retries in August/September
Spring semester • • • Welcome day: 04/02 First day of classes: 08/02 Last day of classes: 20/05 Easter holiday: 28/03 -08/04 International week: 09/05 – 13/05 Global village XL & goodbye: Preparation 11/05 Event May 12/05 First day of exams: 30/05 Last day of exams: 25/06 Exam results – 01/07
More information? Mobility Office KULeuven campus Brussels T’Serclaes 5 th floor – B 05 -23 Warmoesberg 26 1000 Brussel Tel: +32(0)2 210 13 37 E-mail: mobility. brussel@kuleuven. be Closed every Monday morning till 13. 00 and Friday afternoon from 13. 00 Facebook group: Incomingmobility@KULeuven. Campus. Brussels https: //www. facebook. com/groups/765627490149831/ Websites: https: //www. econ. kuleuven. be/eng/brussels/exchangeprogrammes/Exch ange or http: //www. arts. kuleuven. be/home/english/internationalisation/brussels/m obility_office/exchange_students_and_programmes
Today and following days • Lunch in room 1119 • Information market @ courtyard T’Serclaes • Tour in campus + Brussels, if registered! (main entrance Hermes) • Questions and answer @ Mobility Office: Monday from 13. 00
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