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25-893: 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

50-441: A full merger were aborted by an insufficient vote by the general assembly of Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix ( FUNDP ). The " Academie Louvain " ceased to exist in 2014 due to the entry in force of the new law organising the universities. The university is included in some major world university rankings: the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking of 2021 lists University of Namur as 1436th in

75-748: A single university, and an agreement was reached to create a new university to be called Université catholique de Louvain (Académie Louvain Project). Campuses might be identified as UCL/Brussels (today UCLouvain Bruxelles), UCL/Namur (today UCLouvain Namur), UCL/Louvain-la-Neuve, UCL/Mons (today UCLouvain FUCaM Mons) and UCL/Charleroi (today UCLouvain Charleroi). However, in December 2010 negotiations for

100-467: 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

125-408: 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

150-643: 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

175-626: 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

200-855: The Académie Louvain . These are the University of Louvain (UCLouvain), located in Louvain-La-Neuve ; Saint-Louis University, Brussels (now UCLouvain Saint-Louis - Bruxelles), located in Brussels and Ixelles ; and the Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons , (FUCaM, now UCLouvain FUCaM Mons ) located in Mons and Charleroi (now UCLouvain Charleroi). Explorations developed in 2007 for combining all four institutions into

225-742: 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

250-636: 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,

275-668: 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

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300-639: 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

325-843: 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

350-981: 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,

375-752: 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

400-640: 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

425-485: The ambitious university to rely on its own sources and funds. Despite this, in 1934, many projects were launched: new building specific to physical and chemical studies, the expansion of Belles-Lettres library, modernization of some laboratories, many new titles were added to the seminars library. On 18 February 1948 the institution, formerly a college, changed its status to that of a university. This new status resulted in having some (limited and irregular) financial aid from

450-605: The city of Namur, capital of Wallonia . The main university campus includes the university building, the six main faculties and the university libraries. In the spring of 1831, the Society of Jesus reopened a high school in what was earlier the Our-Lady of Peace Benedictine abbey, in Namur. The school immediately developed into a college with the support of prominent Namurian families. They put some conditions in order to finance

475-675: 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,

500-664: 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

525-409: The government. Starting in 1960, after the introduction of new national financing laws, government aid increased and became regular. Many new projects and programmes came into being, improving the university's national and European visibility. The university launched many important projects: On 29 June 2003 the University of Namur joined with three other French-speaking Catholic universities to form

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550-599: 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

575-409: The new project, the most important is teaching other sciences such as philosophy with the liberty of education as proclaimed by the new Belgian Constitution . Many expansions took place in this period, the number of students increased gradually, new sciences and study programmes were introduced. A New Belgian law excluded the institution from getting financial support from the government. This pushed

600-517: The province Hainaut is Saint Waltrude . Universit%C3%A9 de Namur The University of Namur or Université de Namur ( UNamur ) is a Jesuit university in Namur , in the French Community of Belgium . Both teaching and research in the university are carried out by six faculties . The University of Namur is located in Namur , Belgium. The main campus is located at the heart of

625-559: 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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