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EEA Students: How to Prepare for Your Exchange to Belgium

Studying abroad is exciting, but it comes with its share of preparations. This page provides an overview of the essential steps to ensure a smooth transition for your exchange in Belgium. 

After you have been officially nominated by the international relations officer at your home institution, we will contact you with all the necessary details. Here, you'll find the most important steps to take before your departure and upon your arrival in Belgium.

We recommend saving this page for quick access whenever needed. 

On this website you can find a checklist: 

• Before coming to Belgium 
• Upon arrival in Belgium 

NON-EEA Students: How to Prepare for Your Exchange to Belgium

Studying abroad is exciting, but it comes with its share of preparations. This page provides an overview of the essential steps to ensure a smooth transition for your exchange in Belgium. 

After you have been officially nominated by the international relations officer at your home institution, we will contact you with all the necessary details. Here, you'll find the most important steps to take before your departure and upon your arrival in Belgium.

We recommend saving this page for quick access whenever needed. 

On this page you can find a checklist: 

• Before coming to Belgium 
• Upon arrival in Belgium 

Do you want to take care of people in different contexts from a theoretical background? The Nursing Education Programme trains you to become a professional who understands society, works efficiently, and who can organize and contribute to the quality of healthcare. You will accumulate and refine technical and social skills and be prepared for a job within the various fields of healthcare.

With our research, we want to make a positive contribution to the food of the future. After all, producing sufficient and healthy food in a sustainable way for an ever-growing world population is the challenge of the future.

In co-creation with our various research partners, we therefore focus on sustainable and healthy food through our research projects.

In the Nutrition and Dietetics programme you become an accomplished dietician and nutrition expert. You will learn everything about healthy and balanced food for different demographic groups of today's society. The acquired knowledge can be used to provide nutritional advice adapted to the client and to explain the relationship between diet and health, based on the Belgian food dietary guidelines.

With this degree you can start your career as a clinical or administrative dietician (in different catering environments) or as a nutritional expert in a preventive healthcare setting. Another future possibility is working in the food industry as a quality controller. In short: you are of indispensable value in hospitals and nursing homes, but most of all you are indispensable for your clients!

The Erasmus Study of Occupational Therapy offers traineeships in two different domains, combined with several optional courses. Practical skills will be trained in clinical departments, applying the theoretical knowledge from an evidence-based framework. You can also train your research skills, language skills, or technological knowledge by choosing one of the study courses.

For many of you, exams will start soon. And who says exams, automatically says block! Not a very pleasant period, if you know what fun things you could be doing in the meantime. But we will not leave you to your fate at Odisee and will support you through thick and thin! 💪

To ease your suffering a little, Odibilly, the mascot of project Odibuddy, is coming to give you a helping hand. How? Well, at the beginning of June Odibilly will come to your campus and he will bring something to help you through the block (maybe drag you?)!

Curious about what you will get from Odibilly? Be sure to check out the dates when he will visit your campus and feel free to drop by!

October 29, 2021

The academic year is already 6 weeks old and our first year students and all new students are starting to find their way in our college.

Within the Odibuddy project team, we noticed that many new students already had practical and education-related questions before the start of the academic year, such as "where do I have to be on September 20th?", "where can I find all the information about my program?" or "how do the different platforms work?".

To answer these questions of beginning students, more than 110 senior students were deployed to show them the way and provide a point of contact.

It is also important to know that this buddy work is closely linked to one of the recommendations that VVS, the Flemish Association of Students, is formulating to increase the general well-being of students within higher education institutions.

Mid-October we conducted a first survey among our Odibuddy's and students who rely on such an Odibuddy. And a lot of great results came out of that.

View the results at a glance here!

Do you have any questions about these figures or about the Odibuddy project as a whole? Then you can always contact Robbe Van Leemput, project leader of Odibuddy.

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Are you a student within Odisee? Then stay tuned and read on! 

A while ago, we launched the (digital) Odisee Community for all students within Odisee. You can add yourself to this Odibuddy-Facebook group without any obligations. 

This community is a safe space for all students within our university. You can go here with everything around your student life within Odisee, such as:

💬 Ask practical questions

🤧 Share concerns

🧶 Sharing, getting & giving nice tips

🎓 Studying together

💪 Motivating each other

ℹ️ Being informed about all important updates within our college

... and so much more! This is how we try to create a nice place for all Odisee students.

How to become a member of the Odisee Community? Click on the banner below and go to the Facebook group! 

Hope to see you soon!