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Health Care

Students coming from European Union countries, Norway and Iceland : please make sure to take with you your form E-128 (specific to study abroad). This will be provided to you by your local health insurance organization.This documents proves that you are in order with your local health insurance and therefore will allow you to subscribe gratis to our own health insurance system (called ‘Mutuelle’) – this organism will cover you for your medical costs. At the ULB medical services, you will only pay for the exact amount that will thereafter be fully refunded to you by your ‘mutuelle’.

Students coming for other countries : you can subscribe to a Belgian ‘mutuelle’ and without probation period, but unlike students from the EU, Norway, and Iceland, you will need to pay a monthly fee of around 15€. You can also subscribe to a private insurance in your home country on top of this.

Compulsory ULB insurance

Registration to the courses is free of charge to students joining the ULB within the framework of European mobility programs or conventions of bilateral cooperation.

You will however have to pay the amount of 12€, corresponding to an obligatory individual insurance « physical injuries», covering you on the different campuses of the university and during your trips between your home in Brussels and the campuses,   i .e. within the framework of your university activities. This subscription fee will entitle you to get a refund from our university Insurance Department for your medical costs, which are not covered by our Belgian health care system. Besides this, you are covered in ‘civil responsibility ‘ for body and material damages that you might cause to third party, after errors, negligences, omissions or carelessness, but provided that the damage has been caused on one of the ULB campuses and within academic related activities.

On top of this, we advice you to subscribe prior to departure to a private insurance for the risks not covered neither by our obligatory ULB insurance neither by our social security.