Buddy Programme for international students, researchers, staff members
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Asking for a personal buddy as a newcomer:
As a new international student or scholar at K.U.Leuven, you will be faced with a multitude of changes, decisions and adjustments. Perhaps the most exciting of these challenges will be your on-going adjustment to life in Belgium.
To help you find your way around the university, Leuven and Belgium, you can request a personal buddy, a K.U.Leuven student (a Flemish student or another international student) who will answer all your practical questions. Most of the your buddies will also introduce you to Belgian habits and customs, and some even to their own family.
Becoming a personal buddy for a (new incoming) international student, researcher, staff member
- As a Belgian/local student, you can become a buddy for one or more new incoming international students! It will for sure be an enriching experience that will strenghten your intercultural skills and competences!
Read more in Dutch. - As an international master, doctoral student, researcher, …, aged 25 or more and with experience in Leuven of at least one (academic) year, you can also become a buddy for new incoming international students (master, doctoral, researcher, etc).
We expect the buddies
- to know the city and the university well enough to give necessary information to newcomers and to share your experiences with them.
- to live in Leuven, or surrounding communities
- to be in Leuven at the time the new student/researcher arrives
- to get in touch before his/her arrival via e-mail
- to help him/her out during his/her first days and weeks in Leuven (practicalities, interesting sites, etc.).
Please fill in the online registration form to become a buddy candidate
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