University of Mons

Université de Mons (UMons)
founding	2009
Sponsorship	state
place	Mons , Charleroi
country	Walloon Region , Belgium
Rector	Philippe Dubois (FS)
Students	7,000 (as of 2016)
Networks	IAU
Website	www.umons.ac.be

University of Mons.

The Université de Mons (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 created in 2009 from the merger of the smaller Mons Polytechnic Faculty with the larger Mons-Hainaut University . Around 7,000 students study at the seven faculties (engineering, economics and management, psychology and education, medicine and pharmacology, natural sciences, translation and interpreting, architecture and urban planning) and three institutes (linguistics, human and social sciences, law).

History and present

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

On January 1st, 2009 the time had come. The two institutions merged to form the new University of Mons . The larger merger partner, the University of Mons-Hainaut, was itself again in 1965 a. a. emerged from the Institut commercial des industriels du Hainaut (economic institute, founded in 1899 by Raoul Warocqué).

The university library from 1797 contains over 715,000 works, including 450 manuscripts, one of which is from the 10th century. There are also 140 incunabula , including a Gutenberg Bible .

Alumni

• Elio Di Rupo (* 1951), doctor of chemistry, politician and Belgian Prime Minister since 2011.

Web links

• Official websites
• Info in English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ University Management Team. Retrieved August 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ 01Guide de l'étudiant 2015-2016 - UMONS ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , website umons.ac.be (last accessed: 06/11/2016) 
3. ↑ Presentation of the seven faculties in English
4. ↑ PROJET DE CREATION DE L'UNIVERSITE DE MONS. Press conference ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.