The BESHPO is a student organization for students. Every year, students elect their representatives to run BESHPO. The BESHPO offers several services and activities such as selling syllabus and reading material for lectures. It also organizes conferences and social events (like the welcome drink for new students). The BESHPO is also a unique place to meet and talk to the student ' representatives.
The CPS stands for "Cercle des étudiants en sciences politiques et sociales". It organizes social events (like the annual 'Bal jaune'). Through events like TDs and the Saint-V, the CPS livens up the folkloric life of the Departments of tsocial a,d political sciences and of their students. Finally, sport activities are organized by the CPS (an annual skiing week and role playing games).
The BEA is one of the two representative organizations for students within the ULB (cf. décret de
Every other year (in early December), in each Faculty, three tudents are elected to represent their fellow students at the administrative board (Conseil d'administration-CA) of the ULB (they are called 'étudiants administrateurs').
The BEA does not only include the elected representatives, but also co-opted student representatives. These are motivated students who wish to get involved in the BEA and have been appointed by the BEA Assembly to take part in the organization.
The BEA also represents ULB students at the FEF (Fédération des étudiants francophones - Federation of Francophone Students), which brings together students from across Belgian French-Speaking Community.
The work done by the BEA does not come down to sitting at the ULB administrative board. It also informs students and helps them to solve day-to-day problems. Moreover, it also tries to moblize students on important social and political issues.
The Assembly of the BEA, its supreme body, meets every Thursday at 18.30. Most of the time, decisions are made by consensus. When this is not possible, a vote takes place on a one-man-one-vote basis. All members of the BEA have to abide by the decisions adopted by the Assembly. These meetings are – except under exceptional circumstances - open to the public. Do not hesitate to come!
The Cercle du Libre Examen was founded at the ULB in 1928.
It includes students from all faculties of the ULB, with different political and social backgrounds. They are all united by the wish to participate actively in university life and by the belief that university is a place in which they can engage politically and socially. This belief results in a critical outlook, in the hope to explore and to examine various points of view, different ways of thinking and living. Consequently, the Cercle does not defend or promote any ideology but tries to analyze them all in a critical way.
The Cercle's wish and belief come to life through many debates organized all year-round on various issues such as the war in Iraq, extreme-right wing parties, euthanasia, gay rights, etc. For each debate the Cercle du Libre Examen invites politicians, journalists, philosophers, and other personalities to discuss the topic.