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Access2University: programme for refugees

Launched during the 2017-18 academic year, UCL’s Access2University programme will be organised again in 2018-19. The programme, which aims to prepare refugees or refugee applicants for university studies, was very successful last year, involving some 15 students. The programme consists of...
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UCL and the University of Ottawa sign a dual degree...

On Tuesday 13 March, as part of the state visit to Canada, UCL and the University of Ottawa signed a dual degree agreement in multilingual communication. On the same day, the two universities organised a research seminar on language learning. On 13 March, King Philippe opened a research...
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First joint UCL/KU Leuven mission

On 9 and 10 March 2018, UCL and KU Leuven will organise a joint mission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston. It’s the first joint international mission for the two Belgian universities since the split. The schedule includes the signing by KU Leuven and MIT of a...
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Bactaria = problem but also the solution

Johann Mignolet, post-doctoral researcher in the laboratory of the professor Pascal Hols, did a major breakthrough on bacterial behavior during his researches at UCLouvain (Life Sciences Institute). He discovered that a bacterial inhabitant of the human gut produces a small molecule, called...
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2018 UCL honorary doctorate recipients

On 5-6 February 2018, UCL will award honorary doctorates to three individuals: edX CEO Anant Agarwal, Mozilla Foundation President Mitchell Baker, and Sorbonne Professor and Humanum Chair Moulad Doueihi. What do they have in common? A powerful vision of how digital technology, particularly open...
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