An
academy in the outdoors, a most "classic" one.
In
many of our School's programmes, for instance in Environmental
("Green") Leadership, the courses are offered in online
or hybrid learning mode, combined with residential requirements (Summer institute).
In 2004 our Graduate School introduced a "satellite"
educational unit, the outdoors campus
(Outdoor Academy) located in the South of Belgium.
The
labs, workshops, and extracurricular activities are held in and
around the botanical garden adjacent to an old mansion, in a hamlet
located in the north-western part * of the Ardennes. Nearby towns
include Durbuy, a small city that has kept parts of its medieval houses
and streets; Manhay, where fierce WWII battles were fought
in the winter of 1944; Barvaux on the banks of the Ourthe river;
and the village of Wéris with its 4000-year-old megaliths .
The
mansion, an early 19th century farm-lodge with historic timber-framed
walls, is situated in a
picturesque valley bordered
by forests and rivulets. The garden's centennial trees contribute to a unique feeling of serenity, an ideal atmosphere
for open
learning.
Mansion and greens express
the root-meaning of the term 'campus' in its most original form, somewhat alike the grove
academy the
Greek philosopher Plato had founded more than 2400 years ago in Athens, Greece.
At
our outdoors site
students and faculty from around the world share their passion for
leadership, and their hopes for our global natural
environments. 
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