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Onboarding 2025 - Final call

What is it?

The Onboarding programme is a series of sessions on (daily life in) Ghent and Belgium, well-being, traffic and mobility, waste recycling, the faculty and its services, ICT at UGent et cetera. Moreover, students get to know Ghent better during a fun activity in the city.

Programme

Thursday, September 18th 2025
9:05 9:15 Welcome at the Faculty
  • Els Van Damme – Dean of the Faculty
  • Mieke Uyttendaele – Director of Education & Internationalization
9:15 9:45 Practical info + introduction International Training Centre (ITC)
  • Wim Hoste – Head of the International Training Centre
9:45 10:00 Emergency information and evacuation planning
  • Annelies Eeckhaut
10:00 10:15 Info about student associations VLK and IAAS
  • Josephine-Charlotte Leyman & Asmae Guerbaoui
10:15 10:30 Move to PC-room
10:30 11:30 ICT workshop
  • Annelies Eeckhaut and Veerle Lambert
11:30 12:00 Tour of the faculty
12:00 13:00 LUNCH BREAK
13:00 13:05 Announcements of the day
13:05 13:15 Well-being and social services
  • Philippe De Smedt
13:15

 13:30 Mobility and Transport
  • Michel Flement
13:30 13:40 Break
13:40 15:00 Practical information on learning agreements, Timetables, Ufora, Oasis, etc.
  • Michel Flement
15:00 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 15:45 Walk to UFO-building
16:00 17:00

Info session + info market of the Welcome Days by the UGent International Support Team

Friday September 19th 2025
9:00 9:05 Announcements of the day
9:05 10:00 Culture shock
  • Wim Hoste
10:00 10:30 University Language Centre (UCT)
  • Sara Scheir & Sarah De Pauw
10:30 10:40 Break
10:40 12:15

Programme specific sessions

  • For IMAQUA students: Aud. A1.2
    Annelies Declercq
  • For IMESTE students: Aud. A1.3
    Christophe Walgraeve
    Veerle Lambert
  • For IMNUFS students: Aud. E2
    Carl Lachat
  • For IMCGEB students: Meeting room Azalea

    Marjan De Mey

  • For IMFOTE students: Aud. A1.4
    Leyna de Vos

  • For Pharmaceutical Engineering students: Aud. A0.1
    Thomas De Beer

12:30

13:00

Speaker (Aud. Oehoe)
Anindya Majhi

13:00

14:30

Opening reception (Garden campus Coupure)

Location

  • The check-in takes place at room F0.1 at Campus Coupure (Coupure links 653, 9000, Ghent, Belgium)
  • Due to construction work, use entrance 2 or 3 to go to the International Information Desk and Check In.
  • The onboarding sessions will take place in Auditorium A1 at Campus Coupure, except the ITC workshop on Thu 4 sept: in PC room 1.2 - basement, Blok E

Plattegrond take-off