Erasmus principles

HUBrussel has fully adopted the ECTS-system.  

The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) was developed by the European Commission in 1989 within the framework of the Erasmus programme. It is a student-centred way of describing learning by linking credits to learning outcomes, based on the workload of the average learner in formal education. The system now aims to facilitate mobility as well as recognition and validation of qualifications and units of learning, both locally and abroad.

Learning outcomes express what a learner is expected to know, understand and be able to do after having gone through the learning process successfully. ECTS allocates 60 credits to the learning outcomes and associated workload of a typical full-time year of formal learning (an academic year) and 30 credits to a semester. Student workload ranges between 1500 and 1800 hours per academic year. One credit corresponds to learning outcomes which require 25 to 30 hours of work on average.

All HUBrussel study programmes are described in terms of learning outcomes: each programme has its own competence profile.

In addition, each course is described in detail in a so-called ECTS sheet, which is available at the start of the academic year in Dutch and English for courses taught in Dutch; and in English only for courses taught in English.

The effective implementation of ECTS entails the use of ECTS key documents: HUBrussel issues not only Course Catalogues, but also a Diploma Supplement and to exchange students Learning Agreements and Transcripts of Records.

On top of its institutional grading system and for mobility purposes, HUBrussel uses the ECTS grading scale, which makes the interpretation of students' results easier.

HUBrussel's institutional ECTS coordinator is Frederik Deschrijver.