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22-849: It is one of the three UCLouvain sites in the Hainaut Province , along with UCLouvain FUCaM Mons and UCLouvain Tournai . During the 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 university , is considered as one of the major alternatives to a relocation in Ottignies , which will later hold Louvain-la-Neuve . When

44-463: A total of 69 municipalities. It has an area of 3,831 square kilometres (1,479 sq mi). The gross domestic product (GDP) of the province was €34.2 billion in 2018, accounting for 7.4% of Belgium's economic output. GDP per capita adjusted for purchasing power was €22,500 or 75% of the EU27 average in the same year. Hainaut is the province with the second lowest GDP per capita. The patron saint of

66-408: Is Charleroi , the province's urban, economic and cultural hub, the financial capital of Hainaut and the fifth largest city in the country by population . Hainaut is the only Belgian province whose capital is not its largest city. Hainaut has an area of 3,831 km (1,479 sq mi) and as of January 2024 a population of over 1.36 million. Another notable city is Tournai (Dutch Doornik ) on

88-561: Is definitely an asset in leading sectors such as: satellites, phone services, cable broadcasting and telephony, multimedia applications, computer networks, data security, mobile phone and internet telecommunication technology. BIOSYS is a specialized Master in Biosystems Engineering, focusing on methods and techniques for measurement, signal processing, system modelling, optimization and control with applications in medical signal and image processing, as well as process applications in

110-657: Is the fourth (of six) university of the French community of Belgium with over 10,000 students. Several "International Master" programs (all courses in English) were set up in collaboration with the Université Libre de Bruxelles within the Brussels-Mons Institute of Engineering: The TELEMEDIA programme is designed for telecom and multimedia aficionados willing to gain skills and knowledge in those applied fields. The degree

132-622: Is the highest point of the province. In the Boot of Hainaut on the border of Namur province the artificial five Eau d'Heure lakes are situated, the largest lake area of Belgium. A well-known region is the Borinage , the old coal mining region around the city of Mons. Also well-known is the Pays des Collines (English: "Hill Country"), a low hilly area forming one natural region with the Flemish Ardennes in

154-607: Is the westernmost province of Wallonia , the French-speaking region of Belgium . To its south lies the French department of Nord , while within Belgium it borders (clockwise from the north) on the Flemish provinces of West Flanders , East Flanders , Flemish Brabant and the Walloon provinces of Walloon Brabant and Namur . Its capital is Mons (Dutch: Bergen ) and the most populous city

176-707: The Catholic University of Louvain . Until 1995, courses of the University of Louvain Faculty of Economics, Social and Political Sciences and Communication in Charleroi were organised in the buildings of the Institut Saint-André , a secondary school located next to the Maison Georges Lemaître. A violent fire on 7 March 1995 ravaged the secondary school, which was rebuilt in 1997. UCLouvain thus completely renovated

198-614: The Scheldt river, one of the oldest cities in Belgium and the first capital of the Frankish Empire . Hainaut province has a rolling landscape, except for the very southern part, the so-called Boot of Hainaut , which is quite hilly and belongs to the Ardennes and its foothills Fagne and the Condroz . The village of L'Escaillère in the utmost southeastern corner, at an altitude of 365 metres,

220-703: The University of Liège and the Université libre de Bruxelles , an institute for the development of aeronautics and space industry . In addition, the Gosselies cluster hosts three spin-offs from UCLouvain: Cedit , a technology company, and since 2011, iTeos , a farmaceutical company founded within the de Duve Institute at UCLouvain Brussels Woluwe and which raised a capital of 75 million US dollars in 2018, and Viridaxis , since 2011. UCLouvain also participates in

242-615: The East Flanders province. In addition to the main language French, Picard is spoken in the western and central parts of the province, while in the eastern part a mixture of Walloon and Picard is spoken (Wallo-Picard). Some Flemish and Brabantic dialects of Dutch are spoken in the municipalities bordering the Flemish region. The province derives from the French Revolutionary Jemmape department , formed in 1795 from part of

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264-799: The Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Work, the State and Society. UCLouvain has also set up research centres at the Gosselies aeropole : the Centre of Excellence in Information Technology (CETIC) serving as a centre of expertise for the development of Walloon companies and founded by UCLouvain with the universities of Namur and Mons , as well as the Cenaero (Research Centre in Aeronautics) with

286-933: The Interuniversity Certificate in Energy Electronics organised by Thales Alenia Space at the Open University of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation , which is based in Charleroi . Hainaut Province Hainaut ( / eɪ ˈ n oʊ / ay- NOH , also US : / h eɪ ˈ -, ɛ ˈ -/ hay-, eh- , UK : / ˈ ( h ) eɪ n oʊ / (H)AY -noh ; French: [ɛno] ; Dutch : Henegouwen [ˈɦeːnəɣʌu.ə(n)] ; Walloon : Hinnot ; Picard : Hénau ), historically also known as Heynault in English,

308-719: The Maison Georges Lemaître in 1995, and now concentrates most of its Caroloregian activity of teaching and research there. In parallel and since 1975, the Catholic University Faculties of Mons (FUCaM), which were an independent university until 2011, have been offering programmes in economics and management sciences on the Sainte-Thérèse site of the Institut d'Enseignement secondaire complémentaire catholique (IESCA), in Montignies-sur-Sambre . Since 2005, following

330-616: The Montignies campus. Since 2018, a third faculty has established itself in Charleroi: the Louvain School of Engineering . From 2020 onwards, it has been offering a bachelor's degree in computer science . UCLouvain offers master's degrees and university diplomas in management and fiscal sciences on the Montignies site. Certificates in accounting and tax expertise exempt students from

352-626: The bio-industry, including red, green and white biotechnology. The master's degree in Materials Science "From Design to Applications" aims at providing a multidisciplinary, research-oriented training in Materials Science. Note that this master benefits from a multidisciplinary collaboration between the Schools of Engineering and Faculties of Science. It also benefits from the participation of the Materia Nova and INISMa research centres. The university

374-656: The entrance exams to the Belgian Institute of Company Auditors and the Institute of Chartered Accountants . The Maison Georges Lemaître houses various research centres as well as the Open Faculty of Economic and Social Policy (FOPES), which is a department of the Faculty of Economic, Social, Political and Communication Sciences of UCLouvain (ESPO) and organises a master's degree in economic and social policy. It also serves as an exhibition centre and research centre for CIRTES,

396-635: The founding of the Académie Louvain , these courses were integrated into the Louvain School of Management . In 2009, the Charleroi-Europe Catholic College (of which IESCA is a member) co-founded the Haute École Louvain en Hainaut , a partner college of UCLouvain. This merger was shortly followed by the merger of the FUCaM with the University of Louvain in 2011. These two institutions currently share

418-581: The medieval County of Hainaut , the small territory of Tournai and the Tournaisis , a part of the county of Namur ( Charleroi ), and also a small part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège ( Thuin ). (A large part of the historical county of Hainaut is now within France and sometimes referred to as French Hainaut .) Hainaut province is divided into 7 administrative districts ( arrondissements ) , subdivided into

440-504: The province Hainaut is Saint Waltrude . University of Mons The University of Mons ( French : Université de Mons ) is a Belgian university located in the city of Mons , founded in 2009 by merging the Engineering Faculty of Mons (FPMs) and the University of Mons-Hainaut . The merging of the institutions was achieved following a geographical logic because of the high complementarity between them and their location in

462-541: The same city. This merger was accepted by the two universities on 6 July 2007 and confirmed by the Belgian French Community Parliament on 25 November 2008. From an administrative point of view the University of Mons was founded on 1 January 2009. Prof. Calogero Conti , former rector of the Engineering Faculty of Mons, became the first rector of the University of Mons. The University of Mons

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484-541: The university is legally split in 1970, the Maison Georges Lemaître became property of the French-speaking University of Louvain . It is a large neo-Gothic mansion, designed by architect Auguste Cador. It is located on boulevard Devreux, a few dozen meters from the birthplace of Georges Lemaître , which was located rue du Pont Neuf 10. Georges Lemaître, the founder of the Big Bang Theory, was an alumnus of

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