CONFERENCE PLACE
Date: September 21-23, 2022
Adress: Foyer du Lac, place Raymond Lemaire 1, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-La-Neuve
Attention: Do not confuse Louvain-la-Neuve with Louvain (the French translation of the Flemish city of Leuven).
LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE: THE HOST CITY
Located 30 km from Brussels, in the heart of Brabant Wallon Province, the UCL site in Louvain-la-Neuve welcomes more than 20,000 students in its 11 faculties.
The city, created in 1971 by the university, is one of Europe’s youngest. Surrounded by countryside, it offers an exceptional quality of life to students, researchers, professors and residents. Museums, cinemas, theatres, concert and exhibition halls, a swimming pool and fitness centre, restaurants and cafés, commerce and green spaces all combine to form a whole that is renowned for its convivial and dynamic ambiance.
Its entirely pedestrianised centre eases access to all academic buildings and creates an environment in which students, researchers, professors and residents repeatedly cross each other’s paths, weaving a unique social, cultural and economic fabric.
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TRAVELLING TO LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE
By air
From Brussels Airport (Zaventem), beginning at 5:30 am, you can travel by train to Louvain-la-Neuve. Seven days a week, from 9:00 am to midnight, four trains per hour depart the airport for Brussels-North station, where you have to change trains to continue to Louvain-la-Neuve.
Brussels South Charleroi Airport serves low-cost airlines. It is located 40 km from Louvain-la-Neuve. TEC buses take you from the airport to the Charleroi South station. Trains depart until 9:57 pm to Ottignies, from which a connecting train takes you to Louvain-la-Neuve-Université station in eight minutes.
By train
Louvain-la-Neuve-Université station is directly linked to the railway junction of Ottignies, on the Brussels-Namur railway line, with two trains per hour in each direction, including on weekends.
Louvain-la-Neuve is approximately 30 minutes from Brussels; change in Ottignies for the train to ‘Louvain-la-Neuve-Université’. Direct trains take longer.
If you travel from Namur or Charleroi, change in Ottignies for the train to ‘Louvain-la-Neuve-Université’.
If you travel from Luxembourg, change in Ottignies (if you take the EC 96 Iris or EC 90 Vauban train that originates in Switzerland, change in Namur for a train to Ottignies).
If you travel from any other country, change in Brussels-Nord. Otherwise, change in Brussels-Midi, from which depart all trains to Ottignies via Brussels-Central, Brussels-Nord, Brussels-Schuman and Brussels-Luxembourg.
Schedules are available on the SNCB website.
By bus
Several TEC lines run between Louvain-la-Neuve bus station and:
Brussels (Cbis or Conforto Bis line), departing from Roodebeek metro station and stopping at Crainhem metro station (near the UCL Brussels Woluwe campus);
Etterbeek (C or Conforto line) via la Plaine des manoeuvres, Etterbeek train station, Delta metro station, and Wavre train station;
Jodoigne (Rapido Bus 1) via Thorembais-Saint-Trond;
Waterloo (Rapido Bus 3) via Braine-l’Alleud, Ohain, Lasne and Céroux;
Nivelles train station (Rapido Bus 4) via Genappe and Beaurieux;
Tourinnes-la-Grosse (Rapido Bus 6) via Hamme-Mille, Grez-Doiceau and Wavre (4 Sapins);
Wavre and Ottignies (line 20);
Dion-Valmont (line 21);
Perwez (line 33) via Chaumont-Gistoux;
Chastre (line 34) via Walhain, Nil, Corbais and Mont-Saint-Guibert.
Buses operate along these lines only Monday through Friday, except for lines 33 and 34 which operate on Saturday and line 20 which operates Saturday and Sunday. Schedules are available at www.infotec.be or tel. 010 23 53 53.
By car
Take the E 411 Brussels-Namur motorway to Louvain-la-Neuve (not to be confused with Louvain, the French translation of Leuven, located in Flanders): if travelling from Brussels, take exit 8a; if travelling from Namur, take exit 9. At the Nationale 4 roundabout, follow the signs to your Louvain-la-Neuve neighbourhood destination.
From UCL Brussels Woluwe
Monday through Friday, the Conforto Bis TEC bus (see above) operates 24 roundtrips per day. During the weekend, take the metro from Alma station, in the heart of the campus, toward the centre of Brussels (line 1, direction Gare de l’Ouest), to Schuman station, from which you take the train for Louvain-la-Neuve. Metro schedules are available at www.stib.be or tel. 02 515 20 00.
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