Academic year opening 2024-2025

EVENTS

 

"Hence the urgent need to emphasise kindness...: to practice this state of mind without fear, without shame, without moderation and without nuance."  

Didier van Cauwelaert, La bienveillance est une arme absolue, Eds de l'Observatoire, 2019

 

The official opening session of the 2024-2025 academic year was held this year on Monday 16 September in Louvain-la-Neuve under the theme ‘Reinvigorating the university: creating an inspiring future together’.

Programme

  • 3.30 pm: mass presided over by Msgr. Luc Terlinden, archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles
                    Performed by the Louvain University Choir

  • 6.00 pm: opening ceremony

    • Guest speeker: Jan Noterdaeme (photo), co-founder of the CSR Europe network, which brings together one hundred companies and national organizations across Europe to address issues of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. Title of his presentation: “Towards integral graduation for integral development 2025 - 2625”.

    • Françoise Smets, UCLouvain Rector

    • Jean Hilgers, Chairman of the Board UCLouvain

    • Lucie Nicosia, Chairwoman of the General Assembly of the UCLouvain Students (AGLouvain)

    • Caroline Dossogne, Chairwoman of the Corps technique et administratif (CORTA)

  • 7.30 pm: reception

Relive the academic opening in two minutes and forty seconds

 

 

Check out the photo album of the ceremony

 

 

Watch the replay of the ceremony