Venue and accomodation

The event will be held at UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) in the Aula Magna building, room "Foyer du lac" on the 3rd floor. Here is the address of the building:

Place Raymond Lemaire 1
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve 

Note that the entrance door is located at the backside of the building (here are the exact coordinates of the entrance door: 50.668483, 4.609742). 

 

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Please pay attention to not be confused about the city. Indeed, Louvain (Leuven in Dutch) is another city located approx. 30 km away from Louvain-la-Neuve (click on the map to open it in google maps):

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There are three hotels in Louvain-la-Neuve (walking distance to the workshop):
- Martin's Louvain-la-Neuve
- ibis Styles-Louvain-la Neuve
- B-lodge hotel

There are also one youst hostel: Gîte Mozaïk, and several Airbnb possibilities.

In the surroundings of Louvain-la-Neuve, two other hotels are available:
- Best Western Wavre Hotel
- Novotel Wavre Brussels East
- Ibis Wavre Brussels East

 

How to reach us?

  • By car:

Map of the parking lots

If you arrive by car, take the exit number 8A on the Brussels-Namur-Luxembourg Motorway (E411), then follow the directions “Louvain-la-Neuve Sud”, “Biéreau” or “Bruyères”.

Leave your car in one of the parking grounds:

Free access parking grounds (pink on the map):
Parking “Rédimé” : Avenue Georges Lemaître
Parking “Baudouin 1er” : Avenue Baudouin 1er

Parking grounds with an access sticker* (light blue on the map):
Parking sciences
Parking Sainte-Barbe
Parking Croix du Sud
Parking Cyclotron
Parking 14

* The access sticker can be asked to: catherine.bauwens@uclouvain.be
(info needed: name, first name, email address, plate number, dates)

  • By train:

Louvain-la-Neuve has its own train station. There are three main train stations in Brussels: Bruxelles-Nord, Bruxelles-Central, and Bruxelles-Midi (also called Brussel-Zuid). There are trains from Brussels to Louvain-la-Neuve every half hour and the journey takes between 30' and 60' depending on which station you depart from (the order is as follows: Bruxelles-Midi, Bruxelles-Central, Bruxelles-Nord, Ottignies, Louvain-la-Neuve). Timetables are available from Timetables of the Belgian Railways (https://www.belgiantrain.be/en/ ). When buying a ticket or checking for connections, please indicate "Louvain-la-Neuve". Simply indicating "Louvain" may take you to the flemish city of Leuven wich is 30 km from Louvain-la-Neuve!

From the train station, walk up the street (“rue des Wallons”) all the way through “Place des Wallons”, “Place Galilée” and “Place des Sciences” (a place with wooden floor). 

  • By plane :

Brussels National Airport
The main airport close to Louvain-la-Neuve is the national airport: Brussels National Airport at Zaventem (BRU). From the airport you can take a taxi directly to Louvain-la-Neuve, it will cost you about 60-80 EURO (the comany "Taxis de la Dyle" knows Louvain-la-Neuve quite well https://taxisdeladyle.be/ +32 (0)472 413 916 +32 (0)10 41 37 27 +32 (0)473 510 395). The airport is also connected by train to the train station "Bruxelles-Nord" in Brussels. There are regular connections and the journey takes about 30'. From "Bruxelles-Nord", you can then take a train to Louvain-la-Neuve (see above).

Charleroi Brussels-South Airport
There is also a much smaller airport (mostly operated by Ryanair) on the South of Brussels: Brussels- South Airport at Charleroi-Gosselies (CRL). From this airport, there is a bus service to the railway station of Charleroi (Charleroi-Sud), where you can take a train to Louvain-la-Neuve (via Ottignies). The journey lasts for a little more than an hour.
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