Charles
van Leeuwen

[une traduction française suivra] Every year again, I explain my first year students in our first tutorial why I like working in Maastricht. For them, it sounds obvious: it is an attractive international university, its environment is surprisingly European and multilingual and its educational approach [...]

Le hasard a voulu que je vive, étudie et travaille dans plusieurs pays. J’ai rempli diverses fonctions, d’abord professeur de néerlandais à Bologne, ensuite professeur de néerlandais à Louvain-la Neuve, collaborateur du Certificaat Nederlands als Vreemde Taal, directeur du Centre de langues de l’Université de [...]

It never occured to me that visiting professorships would become a structural part of my cv. But looking back on the past fifteen years, there were quite some semesters dedicated to teaching at universities 'abroad'. In particular Namur in Belgium and Padova in Italy. It [...]