elke.de.smet@howest.be Elke De Smet Howest University College Korte Meer 5 B-9000 Gent Belgium

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WEST-FLANDERS

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• Serve
act with a serving commitment
• Empower
reinforce the group and the individual
• Care
care for the other and do so sincerely
CORE VALUES

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Howest University College West Flanders, is an atypical, creative, innovative and
entrepreneurial university of applied sciences.
Anticipating the future, starting from each individual student’s talent and motivation,
Howest educates its students to competent, employable and team-oriented
professionals.
Howest sets the tone for socially relevant, practice- and valorisation-oriented education,
research and services to society, with a wide regional and international outlook.
Howest is an open-minded and pluralistic university college, with respect for diversity.
Howest inspires its staff and students to integrate its core values in their professional as
well as their personal lives.
MISSION

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STRATEGIC GOALS

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LOCATION BELGIUM – WEST-FLANDERS

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CAMPUSES IN BRUGES AND KORTRIJK
→ Bruges
→ 2 campuses
Education department (Bachelors of education):
St.-Jorisstraat 71, 8000 Bruges
→ Kortrijk
→ 2 campuses
→ Central administration
→ Member of Ghent University Association
(>65.000 students)
→ 1 University
→ 3 University Colleges

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BRUGES

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BRUGES (2)

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KORTRIJK

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PROGRAMMES & PEOPLE
Programmes
→ 24 Professional Bachelor programmes
→ 1 full Bachelor degree in English (DAE)
→ 12 international semesters in English
People
→ ± 6000 students
→ ± 800 employees
→ ± 1.200 degrees/year
→ 30% brain gain from outside province W-FL
→ 45% in individual programmes

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TWO CAMPUSES IN BRUGES
St-Jorisstraat, city centre

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Rijselstraat, near the railway station

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NEW CAMPUS IN BRUGES
Rijselstraat, very close to the railway station > HOWEST EXPANDS!

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TWO CAMPUSES IN KORTRIJK

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EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
 Ba Education - Pre-primary
Education
 Ba Education - Primary Education
 Ba Education - Secondary
Education

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EXPLORING AND INNOVATION IN TEACHING
Howest focuses on
various skills and competences
such as communication, coaching, ICT, teamwork
innovation
out of the box thinking and creativity
a lot of practice in real school environments

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HOWEST EDUCATION DEPARTMENT: VIDEO

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BACHELOR SECONDARY EDUCATION
International component:
we think it’s important that upon graduation our students
 have a broad outlook on the world
 are well aware of the international developments within their
area of expertise and who are equipped with the right capacities
and mindset to continuously update that knowledge
 are able to perform efficiently in an international context and
work together with colleagues from different cultures

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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSCHIPS
150 international agreements and academic partnerships
→ shared values
→ similar “DNA”: multidisciplinary, creative, entrepreneurial, innovative
→ high-quality student and staff mobility
→ strategic partnerships and knowledge alliances

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INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
• Objective
• ALL Howest students graduate with at least one intensive international
learning experience
• 3-tier system
→ 1st year: International Days, Internationalisation@Home
→ 2nd year: Short-term mobility:
→ Erasmus Intensive Programs
→ “China From Within” and “India from Within”
→ Shorter work placements
→ International Weeks at partner institutions
→ 3rd year: Long-term mobility:
→ Min. 3 months

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MOBILITY IN EUROPE
Go Europe
Erasmus study:
130 partner institutions
in 25 European countries
(incl. french speaking Belgium)
Erasmus traineeship:
all 33 “Erasmus countries”
(incl. french speaking Belgium)

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MOBILITY IN THE WORLD
Go Global partnerships with:
+ worldwide cooperations with industry / field > internships
incl. development cooperation
USA
Mexico
Brasil
India
China
South-Africa

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12 INTERNATIONAL SEMESTERS
For example in the departments:
Applied Health & Lifestyle Sciences (Bruges / Autumn)
Digital Creative Projects in Occupational Therapy (Kortrijk)

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INTERNATIONAL SEMESTER IN EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
FALL 2016-2017
including
orientation week
innovative didactics and
ICT-integration in education
languages
culture
traineeships + student
guidance

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HOWEST INTERNATIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
• 2006 Leonardo da Vinci ‘European Quality in Mobility Award’
• 2008 Howest selected by the government to organise the Bologna follow-up
event, the ‘Bruges Conference’
• 2008-2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup: world-wide finals, 5 years in a row
• 2009 United Nations World Summit Award for ‘MyMachine’ project
• 2012 Adobe Design Achievement Awards: 1st and 2nd place
• 2013 Howest becomes 1 of 28 world-wide Adobe Partners by Design
Official selection as EU Success Story 2012 (Erasmus Intensive
Programmes)

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CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE BRUGES
Howest UC
&
Zhejiang
Gongshang
University

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RESEARCH DOMAINS

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RESEARCH DOMAINS
Preventive Health
care
Social
Innovation Innoteach
Sustainable
Construction
Energy
Management
Product-, Game-,
Screen Design
Media
Technology
Business
Management
ICT
Innovation in intentional learning

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GOALS IN EDUCATION RESEARCH
1 didactics: innovation in teaching aimed at compentences for new teachers
> a clear view on what to teach and how to teach
2 use of ICT: creating powerful learning environements with 21st century webtools and
apps
3 critical use of media: deliberate use of old and contemporary media, evaluation of
several media content, improve more thoughtful use of media (privacy, cyber-bullying…)
4 creativity: teachers should be able to think ‘out of the box’ and stimulate creativity among
the pupils
research coordinator Howest education department: Stefanie Verstraete
contact: stefanie.verstraete@howest.be

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EVENTS
Howest Partner Days
lectures and workshops by
international professors and
lecturers
visits in the region (West-Flanders)
and in the cities Bruges and Kortrijk
networking dinners

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CONTACT INFORMATION
International coordinator bachelors of education:
Frederik De Laere
frederik.de.laere@howest.be
Howest international office:
sabrina.jansens@howest.be
sophie.dewitte@howest.be
isabelle.pertry@howest.be
Sabrina Jansens Sophie Dewitte Isabelle Pertry