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Student room costs an average €349 per month

A student renting out a room in Belgium will spend an average of €4,375 per year, or €349 per month, all expenses included, according to the Flemish Centre for Budget Advice and Research (Cebud), writes Het Laatste Nieuws . The calculation is based on prices for student rooms with a sink. Studios...

VUB enrolment up for seventh consecutive year

During the official launch of its new academic year on Tuesday at Bozar, The Free University of Brussels (VUB) announced an increase in the number of new students for the seventh year in a row. With more than 20% foreign students, the VUB is the most international of the Flemish universities,...

First Apple Store in Belgium opens in Brussels

Belgium's first Apple Store opened on 19 September in Brussels, to the delight of hundreds of Apple fans who queued up early in the morning to attend the grand opening. The shop, located in the Toison d'Or Arcade, is the first to be designed entirely by Apple's chief designer Jonathan Ive and...

High expectations for new train museum in Schaerbeek

The new Brussels museum, Train World , is gathering steam for its grand opening on Friday at Schaerbeek Station. The museum highlights the history and evolution of railway technology in Belgium. Director Pieter Jonckers has high expectations for the museum, aiming to attract as many as 100,000...

First refugee family moves into foster home

A family of Syrian refugees, two parents and three children, have become the first to move in with a local family. They moved from the tent camp in the Maximilian Park in Brussels to their new foster home at the weekend. The Sommet Citoyen (Citizen Platform), a volunteer group of residents working...

KU Leuven to battle pressure to publish with biographical profiles

The University of Leuven (KU Leuven) is taking measures to battle the publication pressure that threatens to devalue quality of research, rector Rik Torfs told De Morgen . Rather than placing emphasis on how many articles have been published, the university is introducing a system of profiles in...

Belgium makes list of 25 most innovative countries

Belgium is among the world's 25 most innovative countries, according to the 2015 Global Innovation Index (GII), an annual study published by Cornell University, which ranks countries according to their level of innovation. Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United...

Brussels event connects local and international social entrepreneurs

This week, the first edition of Newideals is taking place at Bozar in Brussels. Organised by the Social Innovation Factory, the goal of this new conference is to encourage cross-pollination between the corporate world, NGOs, knowledge centres and the Flemish government. Since it was launched by the...

Antwerp’s floating swimming pool sinks to bottom of Scheldt

The Badboot, an open-air swimming pool floating in the river Scheldt in Antwerp, sank on Friday, despite attempts by the fire brigade to save it. The Badboot, which opened in the summer of 2012, consisted of a floating swimming pool and separate children’s pool for 120 swimmers. The Badboot was...

No double tunnel under Brussels' Place Meiser

The Brussels government has scrapped its plans to dig a tunnel for road traffic under Place Meiser, writes De Standaard . The plans date from March 2013, when the Brussels government proposed to dig two tunnels beneath the square, one for cars and one for public transport. The tunnels were...

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