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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.

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68-702: It is one of the three UCLouvain sites in Brussels, with UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and Saint-Louis University, Brussels . 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

136-566: A planned city built in the 1970s, the Woluwe site is built on an urban and neo-pedestrian model. The campus is centered around the Place de l'Alma , the main square built on different levels, whose buildings are now listed as protected monuments. From the very beginning, the Alma square is planned to include the university's administrative services (the "Mairie"), commercial and leisure facilities, particularly in

204-586: A large cinema complex, and five museums, it is beginning to grow beyond its academic roots. Louvain-la-Neuve was born as a result of the Leuven Crisis , which led to the split of the Catholic University of Leuven . Following the elections prompted by this affair, the expansion of the French-speaking part of the Catholic University of Leuven was voted upon and approved on 18 June 1968. A few weeks later,

272-583: A multidisciplinary biomedical research institute which also serves as the Belgian branch of Ludwig Cancer Research . Other UCLouvain institutes include the Louvain Drug Research Institute, the Institute of NeuroScience , the Institute of Experimental and Clinical Research or the Institute of Health and Society Research. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer , ILSI Europe ,

340-750: A simple house. In reality, it is a vast settlement abandoned by the Meurice Institute of Chemistry (nowadays part of the Haute école libre Lucia de Brouckère and located on the CERIA campus in Anderlecht ), hidden behind residential buildings and straddling Ixelles and Saint-Gilles . Lectures are also given in the building on rue d'Irlande, the headquarters of the Saint-Luc institutes in Brussels. The folkloric student association Cercle des étudiants architectes de Saint-Luc

408-697: A vast international-style building was built on the Chaussée de Charleroi , n° 132 in Saint-Gilles, by architect Émile Verhaegen, also founder and president of the UCL-Saint-Luc research centre in Louvain-la-Neuve . The building which hosted offices, was taken over by the Institut Saint-Luc, of which Émile Verhaegen was a member, during the 1990s, and was from then on used by the ISA Saint-Luc. This remained

476-697: A vice-dean and library (BAIU-Tournai). The Catholic University of Louvain has been offering engineering degrees in Louvain ( Leuven ) since 1964, within the so-called Écoles speciales or Special Schools, part of the Faculty of Sciences. The Special School of Architecture was one of the last to be founded, with the Special School of Electricity. The Écoles spéciales moved to the Arenberg Castle in Heverlee , in

544-525: 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

612-454: Is constant as many more of the characteristic small two to five floor buildings made of red bricks are erected. Due to the large student population that leaves the town during weekends and holidays, Louvain-la-Neuve can be quite empty during those periods. Nevertheless, the student life both day and night is well developed, centered around Student Unions, "project flats" ("kot-à-projet"), regional pubs, etc. Celebrating its 40th edition in 2017,

680-416: Is placed on environmental-friendliness, as well as the quality of the premises and their surroundings. The main area of activity are: Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park is now home to more than 130 innovative companies and their 4500 employees, 1 business incubator and 3 business centres. The Hergé Museum is dedicated to the life and work of the Belgian cartoonist Georges Remi (1907–1983), who wrote under

748-551: Is the biggest one in Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium ). It covers 2.31 square kilometres spread over the area of the town of Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve and the municipality of Mont-Saint-Guibert (30 km away from Brussels ). From the outset, the objectives pursued by the development of Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park were to develop cooperation between industry and the Université catholique de Louvain and to contribute to regional economic development. Particular emphasis

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816-530: The 24 heures vélo (24-hour bike ride) is the biggest student party in Belgium. The event, which regularly draws upwards of 40 000 students to the city, is organized by a student group called the CSE Animations (Centre Sportif Etudiant) and runs annually from 1:00pm Wednesday to 1:00pm Thursday usually during the fourth week of October. Due to the recent terrorist attacks in Europe and the existing risk of new ones,

884-786: The Brussels Capital-Region jointly organised by UCLouvain and the Université libre de Bruxelles ) or the Doctoral Seminars on Sustainability in the Built Environment which are organised by eight Belgian universities ( Hasselt , Ghent , Liège , VUB , ULB , KU Leuven and UCLouvain ). In application of the Bologna Process harmonising the European Higher Education Area , the faculty brings together

952-625: 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,

1020-587: The Crainhem metro station, the campus is enclosed by its own fire station, PASI UCLouvain , as well as the power station and central heating system. The eastern part of the campus is made up of a park with a botanical garden of medicinal plants , the Jardin Paul Moens. Since March 2019, the UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe campus has its own local police office , made up of five police officers from

1088-668: The Louvain School of Engineering . Together, the Louvain School of Engineering and LOCI hold 40% of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation 's engineering students, making it the country's largest engineering school , by far. At the research level, the faculty takes part in the Doctoral Commission of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Construction and Urban Planning (CDI). It also comprises a research institute within

1156-537: The Montgomery police zone. UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe hosts the entire Sector of Health Sciences of UCLouvain, with the exception of the Faculty of Motor Sciences (FSM) which is in Louvain-la-Neuve . The campus hosts many private and public research institutions, which can be independent, related to universities, companies, or part of UCLouvain. Most notably, Brussels Woluwe hosts UCLouvain's de Duve Institute,

1224-652: The Notre-Dame Cathedral of Tournai (in what is now the Brothers of Tournai school) as a drawing school, together with the Saint-Grégoire music school, intended for the teaching of church organ . In what was at the time the independent commune of Ramegnies-Chin , the Passy-Froyennes Institute was founded in 1904, with a vast new neo-Gothic building that still houses Saint-Luc Tournai today. In fact, it

1292-584: The Saint-Gilles prison . The new buildings constitute the former Sanders Pharmaceutical Laboratories, designed in the Beaux-Arts style in 1927 and listed as protected on Brussels' regional heritage list since 1996. The UCLouvain Brussels Saint-Gilles campus has its own administration including a vice-dean and library (BAIU-Brussels). The Institut Saint-Luc de Tournai was founded in 1878 in front of

1360-699: The Saint-Luc Institutes of Brussels to merge by absorption within the University of Louvain . During its first year within UCLouvain, the newly established LOCI Faculty kept settled in the ISA Saint-Luc buildings on the Chaussée de Charleroi . As soon as the merger was completed, a brand new campus was opened, still in Saint-Gilles and the neighbourhood of the Instituts Saint-Luc , called UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles , located at rue Wafelaerts, next to

1428-551: The master's degrees (MARC and MIAR). In addition to these commissions which can be considered as undergraduate and graduate departments, the School of urbanism and territorial planning (URBA) coordinates teaching and research in urban planning. LOCI organizes studies in architectural civil engineering in Louvain-la-Neuve , and architecture in Tournai and Brussels . Studies in architectural civil engineering are organized jointly with

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1496-492: The 2016 edition was cancelled. The starting concept was simple, to race for 24 hours on a bike. Nowadays, competitors are separated in three categories: Racers, that race seriously; folk bikes, including decorated bikes and home built contraptions; and charity racers raising money for humanitarian causes. The festival is an occasion for the numerous student associations in the town to compete in building silly bikes, set up some related activity, or simply provide beer and music to

1564-567: The Department of architectural civil engineering was transferred from the Louvain School of Engineering to the new LOCI faculty. The deanship and the central administrative headquarters of LOCI are located in Louvain-la-Neuve, in buildings still shared with the School of Engineering. Louvain-la-Neuve Louvain-la-Neuve ( French pronunciation: [luvɛ̃ la nœv] , French for New Leuven ; Walloon : Li Noû Lovén )

1632-915: The European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology, the European Brain Council , the European Association of Neurooncology, the European Oncology Nursing Society, the European Society of Surgical Oncology, Fonds Cancer (FOCA), the International Society for Radiation Oncology, the Belgian Association of Nursing Practitioners and the Society for the Promotion of Life-Cycle Analysis (SPOLD) all have their headquarters in

1700-448: The Faculty of Applied Sciences were still offered on the Heverlee campus. From 1973, the programs for the last three years of civil engineering were given at the new Louvain-la-Neuve site, while the candidature degrees (undergraduate) were still being taught at Heverlee. In 1975, the entire Faculty of Applied Sciences (FSA) of the UCL was established in Louvain-la-Neuve. The students from

1768-525: The ISA Saint-Luc de Liège to the University of Liège , and the ISA Saint-Luc de Tournai to the Université catholique de Louvain . The Faculty of Architecture of UCLouvain was thus created and continued to teach architecture within the complex of the Chaussée de Tournai in Ramegnies-Chin. However, like in Brussels, the university started establishing plans for an independent and proper architecture campus in

1836-877: The Lumière Group), the Belgian Entertainment Association , the Belgian Anti-piracy Federation, AFS Intercultural Programs ' AFS Foundation and the SIMIM (Belgian Society of the Music Industry). The European Liaison Office of the Embassy of the United States of America to Belgium and the European Union is also located in the campus' university district. On Place de l'Alma, the campus also hosts

1904-665: The Tournai city-center. In 2012, the UCLouvain took over the Hôtel des Anciens Prêtres building (now the Hôtel des Architectes , which currently houses the administrative services), bought from the city of Tournai , as well as a former building of the State Archives in Tournai ( Archives ), which itself had moved to the former site of the Casterman printing house in 2010. UCLouvain also decided buy

1972-481: The UCLouvain Brussels Saint-Gilles and UCLouvain Tournai campuses. Its abbreviated name refers to Latin word for given places, loci . Within the faculty, four different so-called Commissions de programme organise and supervise the teaching curricula: one commission for the bachelor's degrees in architecture (BARC), one for the bachelor in architectural civil engineering (BIAR), and same for

2040-577: The adjacent site belonging to Cofidis (currently the Manufacture and Filature Buildings). Portuguese architectural firm Aires Mateus was appointed to design the new site, including the construction of a deconstructivist connecting building. In 2017, the Tournai campus of the University of Louvain was inaugurated, with its main entrance located rue du Glategnies. As in Brussels, the UCLouvain Tournai campus has its own administration including

2108-467: The architecture school's main location until the merger with UCLouvain . The Wallonia-Brussels Federation decree of 13 December 2007 grants universities the right to organise studies in the field of architecture, only if they incorporate one or more architecture schools (ISA, Instituts supérieurs d'architecture , which were a separate type of institutions of higher education, next to universities, colleges and schools of arts). In 2010, ISA Saint-Luc left

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2176-515: The campus is served by the stops Alma and Vandervelde . UCLouvain Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning#Brussels Saint-Gilles The Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning (in French : Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme ), often called LOCI , is the 14th faculty of the University of Louvain , Belgium. It became an independent faculty in 2009, with

2244-495: The centralized management of secondary school, art school, architecture school and schools of continued and specialized education, since 1955. From 1979 onwards, architecture has been taught within the Institut supérieur d'Architecture Saint-Luc de Tournai (Ramegnies-Chin) , holding the statute of an independent school of architecture. In 1982, a research institute called Études et Recherches architecturales de l'ISA (abbreviated ERA)

2312-409: The city's rapid transit network, located in the centre of the campus, was inaugurated in 1986. Initially dedicated to education in medical sciences by the university or partner schools, the campus quickly became a multidisciplinary hub by inviting an increasing number of partner institutions, to become Brussels' second largest student campus, with over 14,000 students. Similar to Louvain-la-Neuve ,

2380-449: The conception and planning of the town. They decided that the town should not be only inhabited by students, but rather draw a diverse community as is found in any classic town. Moreover, one of the main points of the urban design of Louvain-la-Neuve was to make it people- rather than automobile-centred. As a consequence, the town centre is built on a gigantic concrete slab, with all motorized traffic travelling underground. This allows most of

2448-414: The direction of Raymond M. Lemaire , Jean-Pierre Blondel and Pierre Laconte , this urbanistic project saw the first students and inhabitants arrive in 1972. At this time, there were only around 600 permanent residents of the town, who were joined during the day by some students of Applied Sciences, the first faculty to open. With the completion of university buildings and the ongoing residential development,

2516-474: The eastern suburbs of Brussels, including the construction of a new university hospital complex. In 1968, UCLouvain acquired land in the Brussels municipality of Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and set up its medical faculties, which opened in 1974. In the early 1970s, the university also began construction of the new hospital, the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc , which were inaugurated in 1976. The Alma metro station on

2584-408: The faculty itself (LOCI-R or Faculté d'architecture, d'ingénierie architecturale, d'urbanisme - Recherche ), being the university's only faculty comprising such structure. This institute is further made up of several research centres including: Other laboratories, centres and institutes were founded on particular campus, as LoCiLoCaL in Tournai, Metrolab in Brussels (a trans-disciplinary institute of

2652-527: The faculty were the first students (and residents) of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve. In 1983, Émile Verhaegen, President of the ISA Saint-Luc Bruxelles, founded the Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement de l'Architecture U.C.L. - Saint-Luc research center, abbreviated CREARCH, in Louvain-la-Neuve. With the creation of the new Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning in 2009,

2720-535: The first stone of the museum was laid. Two years later, in June 2009, the museum opened its doors to the public. The Hergé Museum contains eight permanent galleries displaying original artwork by Hergé, and telling the story of his life and career. Although his most famous creation, The Adventures of Tintin , features prominently, his other comic strip characters (such as Jo, Zette and Jocko , and Quick and Flupke ) are also present. The exhibitions also include examples of Hergé's diverse and prolific output working as

2788-406: The former Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Bruxelles and Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Wallonie in Tournai, and the architecture and urban planning units of the École polytechnique de Louvain (then called Faculty of Applied Sciences). The LOCI faculty thus occupies the campuses of Louvain-la-Neuve, UCLouvain Bruxelles Saint-Gilles and UCLouvain Tournai. When it

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2856-406: The ground level of the town centre to be car-free. Most buildings are built on the slab ( la dalle ), and the pedestrian area is expanding even far from the town centre featuring many mixed use overpasses and traffic calming solutions. This constitutes an early example of the 15-minute city , with the Agora, Main square and train station in a tight central triangle reachable by foot within 15-20' from

2924-500: The headquarters of the American Overseas Memorial Day Association Foundation . Two hotels are furthermore located on the university's grounds. Two metro stations are located on UCLouvain grounds: Alma and Crainhem . Various STIB bus lines cross UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe. The hospital is served by the stops UCL Saint-Luc (north) and UCL Cliniques (south), the faculty buildings by the Dunette (north), UCL Auditoires (centre), Mounier and Crainhem (east) stops. The south of

2992-426: The main teaching locations as well as the Health Sciences Library. Attached to the Central Auditoriums, the André Simonart auditorium , with 900 seats, Brussels second largest, was inaugurated in 2015. Further east are various academic and scientific buildings, mainly research centres including the de Duve Institute and the Belgian branch of Ludwig Cancer Research , followed by the Mounier Sports Complex. Finally, above

3060-436: The merger of three institutes founded between 1867 and 1882, and is active in Brussels ( Saint-Gilles ), Tournai and Louvain-la-Neuve . LOCI is a component of UCLouvain 's Science and Technology Sector (SST). Its headquarters and the dean 's office are located in Louvain-la-Neuve , in buildings shared with the Louvain School of Engineering , though the majority of its students, staff, teaching and activity take place on

3128-443: The municipality of Saint-Gilles in 1904. Following the language crises of the 1960s and the Leuven crisis of 1968 , the institute split in two and the French-speaking department of the Institute of Architecture moved to the municipality of Ixelles , near the Saint-Luc secondary school and art school already present in Saint-Gilles. The Institute of Architecture establishes its headquarters at 70 rue Defacqz, near avenue Louise , in

3196-408: The other hand a wing with modular spaces, many variations in elevation, width and height within each room and sinuous corridors. Shared kots have also been designed, called granges ("barns"). To the north of Place de l'Alma are the UCLouvain buildings: the hospital at north-west, university spaces to the east. Among the latter, the Auditoires Centraux , the first building of the campus, houses

3264-406: The other parts of the town. Louvain-la-Neuve's location 30 km (19 mi) south of Brussels at the crosspoint of several important roads makes it easily reachable by car. Moreover, a train extension has been built from the nearby station of Ottignies , which allows passengers to travel to or from Brussels in under an hour. Louvain-la-Neuve is now a thriving, growing town. Construction work

3332-429: The outermost districts. The town is clustered around this center in four districts: Biéreau, Lauzelle, Hocaille and Bruyères . A fifth district, Baraque , that was not planned by the university has expanded on the north side of the town. It is distinct from the rest of the town in the willingness of its inhabitants to live outside of the common architectural framework (small cobblestoned and pedestrian streets) used in

3400-413: The pen name Hergé , creator of the series of comic albums, The Adventures of Tintin . It is located in the centre of Louvain-la-Neuve, on the edge of a green park, Le Parc de la Source. This location for the museum was originally chosen in 2001. The futuristic building was designed by the Pritzker Prize -winning French architect Christian de Portzamparc . On 22 May 2007 (the centenary of Hergé's birth),

3468-401: The right to organise studies in the field of architecture, only if they incorporate one or more architecture schools. The same year, ISA Saint-Luc Tournai initiated discussions to integrate the University of Louvain , as well as discussions with institutions located in France, given its large capital of French students. In 2009, the association I.S.A. St-Luc Wallonie was dissolved, transferring

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3536-433: The school, mainly an architecture school , had 500 students. Architecture courses were also held in downtown Tournai, rue de la Tête d'Or and rue du Chambge, up until the Second World War . The French De La Salle brothers lived at the institute, almost in exile, until 1959, when they returned to France to found the La Salle Passy Buzenval collège, one of Paris' most prestigious secondary schools. The institute's management

3604-413: The separation was made official. It resulted in the creation of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), the Dutch-speaking university, that would stay in Leuven , and the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), which had to move to the future site of Louvain-la-Neuve, except for the French-speaking medical faculty, which moved to Woluwe-Saint-Lambert (often called "Louvain-en-Woluwe"), in

3672-416: The students. This is how the Maison Médicale (the "Mémé") was built on the Place de l'Alma , a vast multi-functional building with student accommodation on the higher floors. The buildings are designed in an ambivalent way with two opposing "wings": for example in the Mémé , Lucien Kroll envisions on one side, a so-called "fascist wing", with identical kots (student rooms) down over a long corridor, and on

3740-477: The suburbs of Brussels . The first blueprints of Louvain-la-Neuve were made in a hurry and under dramatic times. After much deliberation, the university administration agreed on a building site near the town of Ottignies , in the French-speaking part of the Province of Brabant (today's Walloon Brabant ). They bought a 9 km plot of beetroot farmland, which became the site from which the new town would arise. Construction started on 20 January 1969. Put under

3808-410: The suburbs of Louvain, between 1925 and 1931. The School of Urban and Regional Planning (URBA), whose structure within the faculty has remained intact since then, was founded in 1961. The same year, the Écoles spéciales merged into the Faculty of Applied Sciences ( Faculté des sciences appliquées , FSA), as an entity which for the first time was independent from the Faculty of Science. The Faculty

3876-442: The tens of thousands of students coming from all over Belgium. In the morning, the activities end with a concert by some famous singer in the main square. This event gives a hint at how student life and traditions have developed on the newly born campus, reviving some long lost customs as the traditional Catholic Belgian students hat, the calotte . The 24 hours have also been at the center of some more political issues. In 1999 it

3944-430: The town experienced rapid growth, with 10,477 inhabitants recorded in 1981. The final goal is to reach 30,000 inhabitants, in addition to the 15,000 students living in town during the academic year. The town was created with the sole purpose of hosting the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain). As such all the grounds are property of the university. Consequently, the university was able to play an important role in

4012-453: The university's buildings. Research facilities of FMC BioPolymer and Boehringer Ingelheim are also located on the campus. The campus hosts a number of private institutions, lobby groups, technological companies and foundations. Most notably, these include the headquarters of the Ultratop , the Belgian Association of Film Distributors (jointly owned by Twentieth Century Fox Belgium, Belga Films, Kinepolis , The Walt Disney Company , and

4080-414: The vast Mémé complex, as well as a metro station, Alma , considered to be a total artwork . The metro station was initially planned under the university hospital. Indeed, a large space in the state of structural work exists under the hospital, hidden from the public. The centre of Louvain-en-Woluwe is the work of the architect Lucien Kroll . His plan was to build a university town in consultation with

4148-424: Was cancelled due to the death of a drunken student who had fallen from the dalle in 1998. This happened again at the 2006 edition when a student was found dead in the early morning in the streets of "the dalle". The event was also threatened in 2005 and 2006 because of a student associations strike and other organisation problems. Created in 1971, Louvain-la-Neuve Science Park is the first of its kind in Belgium and

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4216-428: Was formed in 1973 followed by the association of former students of the ISA Saint-Luc in 1981, called Architecture Recherche Communication (dissolved in 2009). Yet a Catholic institution, the students of Saint-Luc are wearing the penne instead of the calotte . In 1986, the school's organizing power was again centralized and transferred to the "organizing committee of the Saint-Luc Institutes in Saint-Gilles". In 1965,

4284-519: Was founded in 2010, the faculty was for a short period called the Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering, Town and Territorial Planning (AIAU). The Institut Saint-Luc de Bruxelles was founded under the name Institut Jean Béthune by the members of the Institut des Frères des écoles chrétiennes (the De La Salle Brothers), first in the Brussels municipality of Molenbeek-Saint-Jean in 1882, then in 1887 on rue des Palais in Schaerbeek . The École Saint-Luc Institut Supérieur d'Architecture

4352-401: Was founded there in 1938 as a non-profit association . The Dutch-speaking equivalent of LOCI, the KU Leuven 's Faculty of Architecture, is still located there, on its Sint-Lucas Brussel campus. Like the one in Tournai , the institute was then part of the series of Saint-Luc art schools established in the majority of major Belgian cities. In the meantime, a Saint-Luc centre was created in

4420-422: Was linguistically separated in 1964 into the Dutch-speaking Faculteit ingenieurswetenschappen and the francophone Faculté des sciences appliquées . Together with the other civil engineering students, architectural engineering students were the first to move to the new city of Louvain-la-Neuve following the split of the Catholic University of Louvain in 1968. In 1971, the French-speaking programmes of

4488-538: Was set up, which carried out research in architecture and urban planning in Tournai until it became integrated UCLouvain. Since 1987, the Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Liège and Institut supérieur d'architecture Saint-Luc de Tournai had been grouped together within one same legal entity, the Saint-Luc de Wallonie Higher Institute of Architecture, a non-profit ASBL with notably Melchior Wathelet on its board of directors. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation decree of 13 December 2007 grants universities

4556-423: Was the transfer to Belgium, but very near the French border, of a boarding school founded in 1839 by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in Passy (now in Paris ), following the Combes Law of 1904 . The Institut Saint-Luc de Lille also had to close its doors and some of its assets were also transferred to Tournai, 25 km away. The Institute was legally founded as a non-profit ASBL in 1924. By 1936,

4624-444: Was then taken back by the brotherhood of Saint-Luc. Over time, the Institut des hautes études des communications sociales communication school (IHECS, now in the city of Brussels ) and the bases of the Institut des Arts de Diffusion cinema school (IAD, now in Louvain-la-Neuve ) were both founded at Saint-Luc Tournai. Similarly to Brussels, an organizing committee of the Institut St-Luc de Tournai had been made responsible for

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