University of Mons

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The Université de Mons (abbreviated UMons ) (German: University of Mons ) is a French -speaking university with locations in the Belgian cities of Mons and Charleroi in the province of Hainaut. It was established in 2009 through the merger of smaller Polytechnic Faculty of Mons with the larger University of Mons -Hainaut.

The seven faculties (engineering, business and management, psychology and educational sciences, medicine and pharmacology, science, translation and interpretation, Architecture and Urban Planning ) and three institutions ( language sciences, human and social sciences, law) study approximately 5000 students.

Past and present

On July 6, 2007, the Board of Directors of the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons smaller and the larger University of Mons -Hainaut had unanimously decided to merge the new Université de Mons. This new university should then work from the academic year 2009-2010.

On 1 January 2009, it was time. The two institutions merged to form the new University of Mons. The larger fusion partner, the University of Mons -Hainaut, was himself again in 1965, among others emerged from the Institute of Industrial and commercial du Hainaut ( Institute of Economics, founded in 1899 by Raoul Warocqué ).

In the University Library from 1797 there are more than 715 000 works, including 450 manuscripts, one of them from the 10th century. Furthermore, it possesses 140 incunabula, including a Gutenberg Bible.

Alumni

• Elio Di Rupo ( born 1951 ), Doctor of Chemistry, politician and since 2011, Prime Minister of Belgium.