An academy in the outdoors, a most "classic" one.

In several of our School's programmes, such as the Environmental Leadership (EnviroLead) one, the courses are offered online, in a combination with a residential module. For the latter purpose our Graduate School has, since 2004, access to a "satellite" centre, in the form of an outdoors campus (Outdoor Academy) located in the South of Belgium (Ardennes region).

The lectures and workshops in the open air, featured in the residential modules of our masters, doctorate, rootstock, and summer-programs, are held in an old mansion and its botanical garden.

The site is in located in a village of the beautiful  region* near Durbuy, a town dating back to the early Middle Ages. The mansion, an early 19th century lodge with historical timber-framed walls, is situated in a picturesque valley bordered by forests and rivulets. The garden's bicentennial pines further add to the unique feeling of serenity, an ideal atmosphere of open learning.

Mansion and greens express the meaning of the term 'campus' in a most authentic form, alike the grove of the classic academy the Greek philosopher Plato founded more than 2400 years ago in Athens, Greece.

At our academy, in that unique little village of the Belgian Ardennes that embraces its worldwide destiny, students and professors from around the world share, year after year, their passion for leadership.

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