Charleroi’s New University Campus: Offering Local Education and Economic Growth

2023-09-08 05:30:00

It is this Friday that the brand new university campus of Charleroi will be inaugurated. The campus associates, in the same non-profit organization, the Haute École Provincial Condorcet, the University of U-Mons, the Open University of the City of Charleroi and the ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, which already has a branch in metropolitan France. Walloon. The objective is clear: to offer young Carolos the opportunity to study close to home and in the same place.

Among the courses offered:

engineering, social and political sciences, biology and chemistry. computer science electromechanics

This corresponds exactly to the demand of businesses in the region.

Until now, higher education students studying in Charleroi have been dispersed“, explains Simon Cambier, director of the relocated sites of UMons, partner of the project. “Today, they will be able to be gathered in the same place. As we know, cities that have a university have an economic boom, a profound change“, adds Simon Cambier.

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