Privileged Partners

The academic authorities have appointed a limited number of foreign institutions as “privileged partners ”. This choice has been based on the one hand on the number and quality of scientific and teaching relations with these institutions, and on the other hand on the ULB’s international strategic orientations .

In practical terms, these are agreements between ULB and a partner university, whereby the two institutions set up special links that let them develop joint projects in teaching and research, and increase exchanges of students, lecturers and researchers.

The choice of partners is made based on the influence and links between the institutions, as well as on the University’s international policy.

At the practical level

ULB allocates funds for activities run jointly with the partner university. These funds are used mainly to four types of activities:

• “IN” international chairs : UA professor from a partner university is invited by ULB for a stay of one month. This professor takes part in research and/or teaching at the University. ULB covers the travel, board and lodging costs and provides a grant of € 2,000. Since such a trip is relatively short, the beneficiary usually retains the salary from his or her own university.

• “OUT” international chairs : A professor at ULB can stay at a partner university for a month to take part there in research and/or teaching.

• “IN” doctoral chairs : A doctoral student from a partner university is invited by ULB for a stay of one month. He or she takes part in research. His/her transportation costs are covered by ULB, which also provides a € 2,000 grant.

• A Fund for short stays (1-2 weeks) by members of ULB at partner universities or by a member of a partner university at ULB is intended to help professors/researchers carry out joint research and/or teaching projects.

Since ULB is “the University of Europe’s capital”, we enjoy excellent relations with the European Commission, from which the privileged partners can in turn benefit. Currently ULB is working to set up a system for partner universities to help them submit projects to the European Commission and benefit from our European network. The high quality of ULB’s privileged partners strengthens its position as a pillar among European institutions

ULB’s privileged partners are currently :

• The University of California, Berkeley (USA)

• The University of Oxford

• The University of Cambridge

• The University of British Columbia (Vancouver)

• L’Université de Montréal (Canada)

• Fudan University (Shanghai)

• Waseda University (Tokyo)

• Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI

• Le Collège de France