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What is the AUWB ? Our history in a few words  Universities have a key role to play in the construction of a knowledge-based Europe and in the European research filed. They will only be able to do this by strengthening their collaborations, by sharing their resources and their own competencies in order to insure a better international visibility.
Hence the creation of our Académie also known as Brussels Alliance for research and Higher Education.On 8th June, 2004, three Belgian Universities - the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the Université de Mons-Hainaut (UMH) and the Faculté polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) - joined together to become the Académie universitaire Wallonie-Bruxelles (AUWB). This new association is the result of the so-called "Décret Bologne" passed by the French-speaking Community of Belgium in March 2004, offering all the Higher Education Institutions the legal framework for implementing the Bologna reforms and also providing for the creation of three Académies in the French-speaking Community. The AUWB gives each partner the opportunity to share their human and material resources, to develop new synergies and to reinforce the current collaborations in which the member Universities are already involved : development of research activities, creation of several R&D centres (such as Materia Nova, a centre working in the field of materials and Biovallée, specialized in molecular biology) and the joint organization of numerous educational programmes, which encompass a growing number of disciplines (molecular and medical biology, biotechnology, computer science, public health, law, etc.). Now that the Université de Mons-Hainaut (UMH) and the Faculté polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) have merged, the Académie has only two members: ULB and UMONS. Our missions As a university institution, the AUWB can fully assume - at its member Universities' request - three essential and complementary roles : teaching, research and service to the community.Additionally, the AUWB also fulfills some specific missions : the institution is in charge of the organization of postgraduate educational programmes (Post-Master's Degrees and Doctoral programmes) and the setting-up of certain institutional measures to fight the high drop-out rates. Our objectives The AUWB's primary focus and organizational intent is to contribute to, participate in and provide insight and thought leadership regarding the intellectual, social and economic development of the region.In addition to its regional dimension, this new interuniversity cooperation structure aims to hold an important position at the international level. To this end, the AUWB will develop additional collaboration programmes with two French Universities (Université de Lille and Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis), in order to create progressively, with the North of France, a geographically large and educational significant European coalition of higher learning institutions, on a par with other European University systems.
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