living in leuven

124 Pages·2017·16.19 MB·English

Welcome @ CM Leuven
Health insurance for students in Belgium
For easy and fast registration: www.cmleuven.be/students
The benefi ts for you:
• most comprehensive health insurance in Belgium;
• travel health insurance;
• extra coverage for hospitalization;
• coverage for glasses, lenses and contact lenses up to 40 euro annualy;
• sport benefi t: up to 15 euro annually;
• CM offi ce in your neighbourhood with knowledge of health insurance for students.
How are you
Advertentie
Welcome @ CM Leuven
Health insurance for students in Belgium
For easy and fast registration: www.cmleuven.be/students
The benefi ts for you:
• most comprehensive health insurance in Belgium;
• travel health insurance;
• extra coverage for hospitalization;
• coverage for glasses, lenses and contact lenses up to 40 euro annualy;
• sport benefi t: up to 15 euro annually;
• CM offi ce in your neighbourhood with knowledge of health insurance for students.
How are you
Advertentie
Preface
WELCOME TO
THE CITY OF LEUVEN!
The City of Leuven and the institutions of cultural challenges you might face during
higher education that call Leuven home are your stay in Leuven.
pleased to welcome you to this lovely city. Living in Leuven will answer many, albeit
We have joined forces to produce this guide not all, questions you may have and settling
to Leuven which is available on paper and into your new home will feel much less over-
online. Living in Leuven has been written whelming than you might think.
especially for all international visitors of the
institutions of higher education. Leuven will be your city before you know it!
It contains information about the institu-
tions, Belgium, daily life in Leuven and can —
help you navigate the practical, social and The Editorial Team
Publisher: Lay-out: We make.
Thomas Van Oppens, Alder-
man for student affairs, City of Photos:
Leuven (Professor Van Over- KU Leuven and City of Leuven
straetenplein 1, 3000 Leuven).
Print run: 5 500 ex.
Editorial team: Reproduction, in whole or in
City of Leuven, KU Leuven, UC part, of text, illustrations or
Leuven-Limburg, LUCA School lay-out from this publication
of Arts – Campus Lemmens. is strictly prohibited without
prior written permission.
Chief Editor:
Sarah Gerard, KU Leuven Advertising?
L I V I N G I N L E U V E N 2019—2020
HOW TO USE Specifc information per institution
THIS GUIDE or target group is only given when
relevant or existing. Otherwise it
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national guests of the three in- tion is all you need.
stitutions of higher education in The guide gives you a general
Leuven and provides information outline of need-to-know and
on three levels: nice-to-know topics. For detailed
information you will be referred
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• General information on to a website and you will be given
diferent topics, applicable contact information of a specifc
to everybody. service that can assist you further.
• Information on the You can search via the table of con-
level of an institution, tents or the glossary in the back.
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School of Arts - campus
Lemmens.
• Information on the
level of target groups.
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In the guide we distinguish
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two main target groups:
students and staf.
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tion for both target groups.
If you are not sure which
status applies to you, you
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Useful Contact Information
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L I V I N G I N L E U V E N 2019—2020
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Useful Contact Information
Service Address Phone Website/E-mail
SUSTAINABILITY
Zwartzustersstraat
L I V I N G I N L E U V E N 2019—2020
1 . e w e ra oh W 13
ID OF THE I NSTITUTIONS 14
KU Leuven 14
UC Leuven-Limburg 14
LUCA School of Arts – Campus Lemmens Leuven 15
City of Leuven 15
MAP OF LEUVEN 17
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 20
KU LEUVEN ASSOCIATION 20
2 . s ’od o t ke w t sriF 21
FOR STUDENT S 22
FOR STAFF 23
ACOMODATION 24
Housing market in Leuven 24
Situation 24
Looking for housing as a student 25
Looking for housing as a staff member 26
Practical information on renting 26
INSURANCE 28
Health Insurance 28
Civil liability i nsurance: coverage by your institution during study/work related activities 31
Third Party Liability Insurance 31
REGISTRATION CITY HALL 32
Foreigners Offce 32
Check by the police offcer 32
Belgian identity card/residence permit 32
Change of address 33
MONEY MATTERS 33
Opening a bank account 33
Living Cost 33
3 . gniviL 37
HOUSEK EEPING 38
Sorting waste 38
Responsible energy use 41
Laundrettes, laundries and dry cleaning 41
SHOPING 42
Supermarkets and shops 42
Markets 42
Second hand shops 42
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