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The Maison du Savoir on the University of Luxembourg’s Belval Campus, viewed from below
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University of Luxembourg

Luxembourg’s main university campus lives among Belval’s furnaces, bringing public ideas, international energy and daring architecture into one remarkable neighbourhood.

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When is University of Luxembourg open?
Monday to Friday: 08:00–17:00. Closed on Saturday and Sunday. Closed on Luxembourg public holidays.
Is University of Luxembourg open on Sunday?
No, it is closed on Sunday.
Where is University of Luxembourg?
2, Place de l'Université, L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette. 8 min on foot from Belval-Université station.

The University of Luxembourg did more than move teaching to Belval in 2015. It changed the daily life of the district. Students and researchers now cross a campus built around preserved furnaces, where the Maison du Savoir faces industrial giants and the Luxembourg Learning Centre occupies part of a former ore store. The result is not a sealed academic enclave.

Public lectures, exhibitions, festivals and open days regularly invite the wider community in, while cafés and terraces blur the edge between campus and neighbourhood. Walk through without rushing. Belval’s old machinery and new architecture keep interrupting one another, and that conversation is the point: a place once organised around steel now organised around people learning what comes next.

Local tip: The Luxembourg Learning Centre is open to the public; step inside even if you have nothing to study, because the building alone is worth the detour.

What's on here

4 upcoming events
Université à l’essai: try first-year classes at the University of LuxembourgOn now · until FridayGraduation Week at the University of LuxembourgFriday to ThursdayOpen Day – University of LuxembourgSaturday · 09:00Uni.lu Hoodie Day – University of LuxembourgMonday · All day

Next door this week

On in the next seven days, within five minutes on foot of here.

  1. On now, until Wed 23 DecAnne Winterer: Pioneer of Industrial PhotographyMöllerei · 5 min on foot
  2. On now, until Sun 10 JanCalculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500Socle du Haut Fourneau C · 4 min on foot
  3. On now, until 16:00AISTER Hackathon: Code for HeritageMaison des Sciences Humaines · 2 min on foot
  4. Tue 3 Nov · 17:00An introduction to Jung’s analytical psychology at the Université PopulaireUniversité Populaire Luxembourg · 3 min on foot
  5. Tue 3 Nov · 18:30Café Saga Quiz NightCafé Saga · 5 min on foot

Everything on in Belval

Where it is and how to get here

University of Luxembourg
2, Place de l'UniversitéSee it among the othersMeeting someone here? Make a link© OpenStreetMap contributors

Within five minutes on foot:

  1. Food Lab2 min
  2. Maison des Sciences Humaines2 min
  3. Porte des Sciences bus stop2 min
  4. 42 Luxembourg3 min
  5. Belval Student Lounge – University of Luxembourg3 min
  6. BIL Esch-Belval3 min
  7. Crèche Boumba 3 Belval3 min
  8. Domino’s Pizza Belval3 min

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